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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
6
A discourse on the value of home over emigration notes that true happiness rests in a stable, loving home. It contrasts the lure of money with the warmth of family bonds, then follows a campus anecdote about a girl who chooses honest work and education over easy paths, ending with a professor’s defense of women's higher education.
Philadelphia Record notes the site of the first American glass factory near Temple New Hampshire. It recalls Washington’s diary mention of 1789 glass making in New Haven and Robert Hewes’s 1780 plans to manufacture glass in America. The piece describes landscape features around Kidder Mountain and Temple, and mentions remaining stone ovens foundations as reminders of the historic site.
Gulfport Mississippi. The Gulf & Ship Island Railroad announces its first Sunday excursion of the season to Gulfport beginning May 31 1908 with weekly runs to follow until further notice. Low fares apply from all Gulf & Ship Island stations and the pavilion at the sea-end of the pier will accommodate excursionists. Signed B D Boyston General Passenger Agent.
Sleeping cars will operate from New Orleans to Asheville starting Monday June 8. Cars depart New Orleans in the morning and reach Asheville next morning about six o clock with connections to Land of the Sky and Sapphire Country. Service runs Monday Wednesday and Friday during tourist season with return trips Asheville to New Orleans three days weekly.
Notice states George Gordon a Hamiltonian stallion at 10 miles east of Brandon offered for service including saddle gaits and harness work. D M Ropsins issues the notice at the stated location on Wire.
An interview with L. T. Cooper extols his stomach regulating medicine claiming it heals animal digestion and human stomach degeneration. Monroe Brown of Winchester, mass, credits the treatment with curing catarrh and rheumatism, improving circulation, energy, sleep, and appetite. Thornton notes widespread sales and explanation by druggists.
Local secretaries of the F. C. and E. Union are asked to mail cotton pledges and similar information to D. M. Mayers, general manager in Brandon, Mississippi, for compilation to be sent to G. R. Highwee, state president, Oxford, Mississippi.
One second hand saw mill and one second hand shingle mill in good condition. One new swing cut off saw by Farquhar. One 400 egg incubator and one 200 chick brooder. Sixty five leghorn pullets and five cockerels. Three hundred young leghorn chicks aged one to four weeks. All items to be moved to the Gin Compress. Co. R. P. Walters, at Rankin County Bank.
In the Rankin County chancery court Mississippi Campbell and Campbell sue Wa M Kight et al. Special commissioner W White announces a July 6 1908 public sale of the south half of the southwest quarter and northwest quarter of the southeast quarter section 31 township 7 range 5 east to satisfy court costs and a $825 claim to Campbell & Campbell. Proceeds first cover costs, then the debt, with any remainder to the defendant Wm M Sr.
Sealed bids will be received at the chancery clerk s Office up to 12 o clock noon on the first Monday in June 1908 for a change in the sheriff s office according to specifications on file by H C ull The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids MO A GAYDEN Clerk Brandon Miss May 7 1908.
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