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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
7
The passage traces the unclear origin of the cock and bull expression noting Brewer’s error prone colonizing of a “concocted and bully story.” It cites Hvi and references to Nergal Osiris rooster bull symbolism with ties to Phoenician and Egyptian myth. It notes the French coga-lane shows similar uncertainty about origin.
The piece contrasts Mahomet’s dove, claimed as the Holy Ghost, with a Chicago News remark that the bird was trained to feed from his ear. It shifts to a classroom scene where a pretty teacher explains good conduct using flowers and weeds and a child answers that weeds are plants that want to grow while flowers are the ones that don’t.
Swainsboro Georgia merchant John C. Coleman testifies that kidney troubles caused daily back pain and fatigue. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with immediate relief and lasting improvement. Sold by all dealers at 60 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
A Pittsburgh Press view extols regular hygienic habits to sustain health and vitality. It argues that disciplined routines save nervous strain and time, while excess in drinking or smoking wastes talents. A brief anecdote about a deaf miner’s reaction to a train’s whistle humorously ends the piece.
A health board president endorses Grape-Nuts as a prime food. He cites personal recovery from malnutrition and insomnia after using the cereal with cow’s milk. He urges readers to trust the product and claims its value in a rational feeding system. Read The Road to Wellville for more.
Western Pennsylvania coal companies plan to close saloons in bituminous districts claiming licenses harm property rights and invite drunkenness. They filed remonstrances against wholesale liquor licenses arguing saloons divert capital, foster idleness, and burden business. observers predict steps toward a prohibition district.
An analysis from Dr Daniel Clarke, former Toronto lunatic asylum superintendent, presented to a commission shows that about nine and a half percent of insanity cases are caused by drink. Roughly one in ten lunatics are tied to liquor, with alcohol acting as a sole or major factor in many cases and often combining with domestic trouble or overwork.
The Kentucky Masons resist a Grand Lodge ruling excluding whisky members from new lodge membership. The ban does not affect current members but may become a fundamental principle after the next constitutional vote. Whisky men are among the lodge’s strongest supporters.
In Fulton Missouri a local Gazette quote by Col I W Boulware notes that nineteen of twenty crimes involve whisky. He recalls defending forty one murder defendants and attributes liquor as the major demoralizing force driving criminal behavior and violence.
Luther laments the loss of genuine beer and notes the rise of small beer. He prays for God to end the beer brewing business and claims enough barley has been destroyed in breweries to feed Germany. The quote reflects a critical view of brewing changes in Germany.
Daily papers say a rich city mother east of the Mississippi asked courts to declare her son an habitual drunkard. About thirty, he is a famed young millionaire with an income of 35000 dollars yearly, squandered in drunken debauchery.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to treat torpid liver and biliousness by improving digestion and nutrition. It claims to restore stomach activity, cleanse poisons, and aid liver function, with cautions against unsuitable foods and notes about non secret ingredients and endorsements by medical writers. It includes testimonials and promotions for Garfield Tea and related products.
The article outlines the house fly Musca domestica origin in 1873 by Packard, details egg laying in fresh manure, rapid larval development, pupal transformation, and emergence. It notes short total life from egg to fly, differences between sexes, natural enemies, hibernation, and flies as disease carriers, urging readers to act.
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