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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
2
The New York Mail reports 1909 livestock values from the Department of Agriculture. Mules average $107.84, horses $59.64, milch cows $21,720,000 head valued at $702,945,000, total national livestock wealth $4,525,259,000, with about one family owning a mule and many owning horses and cattle.
In 1905 there were 275 button factories in the United States with a capital of 7 783 900 dollars and 11 335 workers. Wages and salaries totaled 4 691 669 dollars, while the aggregate value of buttons and byproducts reached 11 133 769 dollars. Over half of the factories engaged in pearl button manufacture, up more than 20 percent since 1900.
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals urges residents leaving the city for the summer to send their cats and dogs to SPCA shelters by mail or phone. There is no charge for this service, and Society volunteers will call for the animals.
Washington May 22 Senator McLaurin charged the policy of extortion in a Senate speech. He argued the Constitution authorizes customs duties only for revenue and urged strict economy. He favored ending Philippine expenditures, proposed an income tax and an immigrant head tax, and opposed private pension bills and many differential duties on refined sugar.
David Brewster, a longtime farmer near Delphos, refused to sell corn during a grain shortage. Two starving settlers offered high prices, but Brewster chose to share the corn, directing neighbors to take what they needed rather than profit from others’ misfortune. The Rochester Herald notes the gesture amid local hardship.
East St. Louis police arrest Mabel Davis and Del Brown for stealing from boarders at Hal's boarding house. Mabel, revealed as a woman, had spent a year living as a laborer and hob0, working in St. Louis wrecking, a grad ing camp, and as a dishwasher. She describes riding freight trains, smoking, chewing tobacco, and hiding her gender for years.
Barker of Sapperton sought police help after paying Gerard 20 dollars to obtain all rights to his wife, a 19 year old at Royal Columbian hospital maternity cottage. The woman, weak from childbirth, refused to join him and remains under care of a female relative as police mediate. The report notes the parties are whites and the woman has ties to local Chinese residents. Centralia also notes James Smith near town owns a two headed albino pig, hairless and healthy.
Practical household hints on cleaning and fabric care including cementing china with gum arabic mix and pumice for nails cleaning marble with soda pumice and salt. Ink removal with milk and water set. steel knife rust prevention with soda. tinware stain removal with soda. notes on fashion trends pannier skirts and soft drapery. Robert Lee jelly cake recipe with lemon flavors and cake layers.
Bristol Tennessee May 22 Robert Moore a twenty year old negro was taken from Abingdon Virginia to avert a lynching He confessed last night to killing James Hines sixteen son of R A Hines of Abingdon whose body was found near Freeling Dicognition county three days earlier Moore said he killed the boy for robbery cut off his head and took $60 from the pocket The murdered boy was a nephew of Mayor J H Hints of Abingdon
Washington May 22 An American machinist from Painesville Ohio John Orth claims to be the long missing Archduke John Salvator of Austria He has offered to submit an autograph signature for handwriting comparison Baron Ambrosey the acting envoy said he will forward the letter to Vienna for analysis by the archduke a disappearance dating twenty years ago.
Wiley the famous jack formerly owned by Ed Rhodes will compete this season at Pelahatchie Mississippi with Kersh and Jordan handling the event.
A five year old, 15 hands high home raised Jack will be trained to season at the seller's place for ten dollars to insure. Contact Robert Chapman Johns Miss.
Gulf & Ship Island Passenger Department announces timetable changes effective April 11, 1909. Main Line schedules show No. 5 and No. 3 routes via Ly Jackson Hattiesburg Gulfport with arrival times, and No. 6 linking Gulfport to Jackson and Hattiesburg. Columbia Division via Silver Creek and Columbia lists No. 101 and No. 102 with station stops at Mendenhall Gulfport Jackson Columbia. Connections at Jackson Hattiesburg Gulfport with all lines. THOS P HALE Second-President Gulfport Mississippi.
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