Lookout for serious disease after consecutive colds
A heedful warning explains that repeated colds weaken the body and raise risks of chronic catarrh pneumonia or consumption. It promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as reliable and inexpensive at a quarter, available widely and effective to cure a cold while possible. Notice also seeks sealed bids by December 1916 for poor house and farm manager at the chancery clerk's office, with rejection rights reserved by J A Ropinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chancery Clerk
J. A. Ropinson
Cler
Brandon News Highlights Local Events and Crime
A busy Brandon page lists political filings for mayor and aldermen, school activities, Thanksgiving notices, and a surge in burglaries near the depot. It notes church services, a Star store sale, and multiple relocations. The piece covers county sports, road bond defeat in Beat 4, an upcoming basketball game, and amateur field trial dates. It also promotes local business, a repair shop opening, and Col Henry’s Ford Peace Party lecture.
Eastland Cole Clift on wedding notice and sales ad
The notice lists the marriage of Betty Caperton Eastland to Dr. James Clifton Cole on November 30, 1916 at 5 p.m. in Chicago with home to be at 1637 Third Street New Orleans after December 15. It also advertises W. G. Barnes stock of adopted school books and E. M. Odom’s 15 day sale from December 9 to December 23 with prices held at old levels due to rising merchandise costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odom
Star
Rankin County
Bethel Church
Patterson
Brandon
J.R. East
Florence Road
Mrs. Fulton
East
Shields Cottage
Mrs. Embree
Secon
Rankin County Amateur Field Trial Club
J. W. McRae
H. N. Holifield
Simpson County
Holifield
Rankin
Dr. Holifield
Robert Fletcher Ormond
Betty Caperton Eastland
James Clifton Cole
Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago
Illinois
Third Street
New Orleans
Louisiana
E. M. Odom
Odom offers new lean first class goods with refund policy
Mr. Odom pledges satisfaction and refunds purchase price for any article. Readers are urged to wait for this extraordinary sale to make dollars do double duty. Includes Charter Oak Cooking and Heating Stoves, suit and extra pants for men and boys, and Thoroughbred Hampshire hogs from Brandon, Mississippi.
Signal sounded on opening of canal
The report marks the opening of a canal with attention to the exploitation of Mississippi's vast natural resources. Officials note the project will tap riverine assets, boost trade, and advance regional development as communities watch progress and future impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Mississippi Centennial Exposition at Gulfport proposed
Mississippi seeks a worldwide exposition tied to Panama Canal completion with Gulfport as gateway to the Orient. The piece argues for broad development beyond lumber, highlighting potential through canned produce, Delta cotton, home-manufactured exports, meat from the lime belt, and a growing sheep industry to attract capital and citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Gulfport
Orient
Delta
Wall Street
Sei
Mississippi Centennial Exposition and statehood drive
The piece lauds a Mississippi Centennial Exposition to showcase cotton, fruit, poultry, hogs, beef cattle, lumber and two ports. It argues manufacturing at home reduces costs, ends exporting raw goods to outsiders, and promotes “Mississippi for Mississippi” with statehood shares for new settlers as part of a bid to make Mississippi a leading commonwealth. The plan spans nationwide interest, ports, and economic self sufficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Mississippi
Union
Recognition by Congress Honors Expositions Worth
The National Congress recognizes the Mississippi Centennial Exposition as nationally important. A national exhibit sent to California for the fair will be brought here at about ninety thousand dollars of federal expense, marking federal appreciation and adding a grand attraction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Congress
California
United States
Mississippi
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Rankin County Bank
Brandon, Miss
Sidney L. McLatrin
Nees
Guaranty
Barnes & Fox
VIA
Pat Henry
formar‘Sookmshal
T. T. Cottrell
Dr. A. McLaurin
W. G. Barnes
A. “Gray G. C
E. M. Babb
Bruce
Board of Supervisors
W. J. Shotts
Hulon Patrick
W. C. Palmer
Mrs. Bettie Wilson
Presbyterian Church
R. P. Fikes
H. A. Busick
Mesagg Lee
Law
Foote
Iss
W. B. Collier
College Street
Whitfield Cottage
J. R. East
Cotlier
J. H. Richardson
W. C. Harper’s
B. M. Odom
W. D. Ragland
J. A. Lindsey
R. L. Fox
Pelahatchie
Rankin County Agricultural High School
Mississippi College Y. M. C.A
Clinton
Rankin County Teachers’ Association
J. E. Fisher, Jr
South State Street
Jackson
Miss
Fisher
J. E. Fist
Pearson
Ford Cars
County
Col. Henry
Ford
Henry Ford
de- Troit
Europe
America
Col
Henry
Star Brain
Eal Ores Ve
Cole—Ormond
H. L. Shields
Charter Oak
Hampshire
W. E. Darnall
R. R. Busick
Brandon, Mis
Congress
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