Brandon News highlights and civic notes from Mississippi
The Brandon News reports on Secretary Dickerson's Cuba trip cut short by illness but notes progress on the Panama Canal project. It urges veterans to attend June reunions, praises bravery, and discusses cotton acreage shifts and corn planting. President Cunningham’s press convention address favors publishing laws in every county paper to broaden public access.
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Dickerson
Cuba
Panama Canal
C. E. Cunningham
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Cunningham
Woman as Companion and Helper in Life and Work
A reflective essay extols women as domestic partners and as helpers in public life. It asserts woman’s worth lies in unity with her husband, guiding and supporting him to happiness, while noting women thrive in family duties and in arts, sciences, trades, and professions. It credits wives and mothers with contributing to the success of men.
Signs of Gambling Reach Community Hearth
The piece laments gambling’s rise and its wrecking effect on family life. It portrays gambling as a ruthless force tearing apart homes, driving wives to rags and daughters to disgrace, with sons following the same ruinous path. It warns that no home can withstand the gamester’s lure.
Happy boy drives dirt cart in sunlit street
A cheerful 14 year old guides a dirt cart along a city street with lines secured between his knees, horses jogging, coat off, calico shirt cool, hat tipped back. He tosses pebbles and wears a contented, childlike smile that even the most world weary would envy, illustrating joy from a settled mind rather than wealth.
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Happines
Cheerful wife and mother as home beacon and state backbone
Fragmentary description portrays a cheerful wife and mother as the home’s restful haven and steady beacon guiding a family through difficulties, extending beyond the home to influence state and society with a brave attitude toward life.
Vicksburg’s Rise From Frontier Town to Southern City
Historic Vicksburg is celebrated for its strategic river location, booming cotton trade, and rapid growth from incorporation in 1825 to a thriving 1900s commerce hub. The piece highlights transportation links, rail and river commerce, the Yazoo Mississippi Valley mills, public works, schools, clubs, and notable civic leadership shaping its development. It notes war history, population shifts, banking expansion, and the city’s enduring hospitality and civic pride.
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Vicksburg
Yasoo
National Cemetery
South
Louisiana
Mississippi
Itasca Lake
Yazoo River
Arkansas
Cherry Street
Hill City
Ralu
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
United States
River Front
New Orleans
Cairo
All Saints College For Girls
Episcopal Diocese of
Prentiss
Class of 09 Graduation Will Read by Miss Atkins
A 1909 graduation class drafts a playful will assigning school gifts to juniors and the faculty. Items 4 through 10 gift advice, dignity, the building and its fittings, and the principal as sole executor, with light humor about taking things by degrees and honoring elders, dated May 21 1909.
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Irene Atkins
McIntosh
Not That Color Willie Sees Fido in Imagination
Willie, distressed by a missing dog, roams the house crying for help. He repeatedly claims to have seen Fido, prompting disbelief from his mother. In a burst of emotion he insists the sight was real, challenging her doubt about his imagination.
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Willie
Fido
Leos
Stolen Horse Strayed From Pearson Lumber Yard
On May 15 from our saw mill at Pearson Mississippi a dun mare about 7 or 8 years old and 14 1 2 hands high disappeared. A reward is offered for her return or information leading to her recovery. Roelel Lumber Co. Pearson Miss.
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Pearson
Miss
Roelel Lumber CO
Pearson, Miss
Local Post Office Notices Address Change Requests
Several subscribers requested address changes but current post office addresses were not provided. Addresses will be updated if the old address and new office are named. Ae Co. received a line of Stetson hats and other items while processing notices.
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Ae & Co
Stetson
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