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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
6
In Mississippi news, a Jackson dress code proposal threatens fine for sheath gowns in the streets while other items report a Biloxi death during wood sawing, pardons to convicts, mill resumptions, new cotton bale records at Biloxi, and local political shifts including Meridian and Oxford developments. The era's social tensions mix with labor, crime, and industry updates.
Ed Harper and Miss May McRae wed at Quitman amid romance before Harper fell ill with appendicitis. He will be taken to Meridian for surgery. Harper is a local prominent druggist. his wife is the daughter of Mr. McRae of Bassic City.
Sheriff Clark of Adams county completes survey of cotton mills near Natchez under the new law effective October first. He finds operators largely following requirements and plans to report results. Some men excuse themselves by saying they were born to deer.
A wide wire service report lists global events: a typhoon in the Philippines, Germantown celebration, Castro’s illness in Venezuela, battleships from Manila to Japan, Taft and Bryan campaigns in the U S, cholera cases in St Petersburg, a Grenada fire costing about 60000, cabinet resignations denied, and diverse political and economic developments from across the world including stock market dips, unions, and naval stores debates.
New York Oct 9 The Democratic national committee will announce campaign fund totals and list contributors of $100 plus. Total receipts exceed $220000 with over $180000 from contributors and $42000 from the Denver fund. Notable donors include Delancey Nicol Jacob Ruppert Nathan Straus National Democratic Club and Roger Sullivan among others. Most funds come from dollar contributors and Democratic press campaigns.
London and Glasgow dispatches describe rising tensions in the Balkans as Servia faces pressure over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Austro-Hungarian troops mass along the Drina frontier while Britain and France urge restraint and a conference of powers to seek order. A British fleet sails toward the Aegean and a Glasgow cruiser sets a new speed record despite fog.
In Hickman Kentucky the wife of Dare Walker, part of the referenced negro family raided by night riders, died on Sunday. Four family members are dead with two others shot and recovering. The oldest missing boy has been located, having escaped and stayed with relatives in a distant county section.
A comic exchange shows Brown declaring the anchor dropped while Mrs. B. complains about the item dangling outside all morning in a naval setting. The brief dialogue captures a light maritime moment with playful banter aboard.
A collage of early 20th century patent medicine pitches tout Mitchells Eye Salve for eye diseases with 25c price, apudine for indigestion with 10c to 50c sizes, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic claiming malaria defense, and quippy lines about marriage and ambition.
Mrs. R. Crouse of Manchester reports two years of backache, rheumatic pains, and kidney trouble eased by Dean's Kidney Pills. She cites normal kidney action and improved health after use, with the product sold for 50 cents a box by Foster-Milburn Co. Bills Buffalo, N.Y. The only that has everything he wants in this world is the one that has nothing.
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