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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
7
Tomkins, nervous and slow in emergencies, asks a stranger for Mr Brown and reveals to him that the building is on fire. The stranger provides his name and the scene unfolds as Tomkins tries to relay the alarming information to the head of the arm.
War conditions lift the cost of essentials in Jugo-Slavia with ready made garments selling for 1000 to 1200 crowns. A crown equals about 20 cents, while prewar material hinders tailors. Shirts cost 70 to 100 crowns and stockings about 30 dollars. woolen, cotton goods and household items are scarce.
National Crop Improvement Service advises grounding wooden post fences every sixth post to prevent livestock shocks during thunderstorms. Grounding involves wrapping a six to eight foot wire around line wires and burying the other end in moist soil. Galvanized steel posts already provide post by post grounding, offering protection to cattle.
National Crop Improvement Service notes dirt and fence corners spread weeds across farms. Hand pulling corners helps, but long wooden fence lines resist cleaning. With steel posts, burning is safer. choose dry, windward days, remove brush heaps, and burn accumulations from a year’s growth to avoid wire damage.
Practical notes on anchoring fence posts in holes using an anchor wood stone or stone to bottom, tamped earth, and wires to take strain. Mentions a tilting lifting gate for stock rotation and snow clearance, plus gate width latches and hinges.
Detailed step by step instructions on mixing concrete for fence posts. Emphasizes sand quality sharp sand, proper sand cement gravel ratios, thorough mixing until uniform color, careful water addition, avoiding direct sun, keeping moist, preventing freezing, and ensuring posts are set before fencing. Includes guidance on using brick bats or stones as substitutes and post preparation.
The passage advises clearing brush stumps rocks and obstructions before fencing to ensure the fence line is level and the bottom rests snugly on the ground. It emphasizes a pig tight and hog tight bottom by leveling humps and uneven ground for proper wire fabric alignment.
National Crop Improvement Service describes a zinc coating process for steel fence wire to prevent tarnish and rust. Wire from annealing carries lead flecks. it is cleaned with muriatic acid, rinsed, dried, dipped in molten zinc, wiped with asbestos, and cooled on reels. Uniform coating is essential to extend wire life.
After stretching the wire fabric between end posts, fasten it to the line posts. Use premanufactured staples in the posts, spacing for standard fencing. Attach the top bar to the post tongue, push the tongue back over the wire, and fasten three or four wires per post. Do not overly tighten tongues. allow slight play to distribute shock along the fence.
The article advises using a stout cord or chalk line to align line posts, digging 10 to 15 inch holes with a crowbar or 2 inch auger, then driving posts with a wood maul. Line posts can be set as corner posts are secured, with careful sighting along the tops.
New Orleans reports Armistice Day 1919 will mark two celebrations and the third Red Cross Roll Call from November 2 to 11. Lloyd M. Hooper of Selma leads Alabama, Judge E. H. Randolph of Shreveport heads Louisiana, and Thaddeus Lampton of Jackson presides in Mississippi. National goal is 15 million dollars and 20 million members. Alabama asks 73,060 dollars and 840,150 members. Louisiana 130,000 dollars and 149,600 members. Mississippi 56,940 dollars and 65,450 members. The drive funds Red Cross wartime relief and postwar peace programs. Dr. Livingston Farrand will visit New Orleans October 8, then Jackson, Birmingham, and Honolulu chapter over quota reported. The telegraphic note from Washington praises the Honolulu chapter for a 76,000 dollar subscription.
The article describes two classes of steel posts, railroad rail stock and specially composed steel. It lists forms as flats, angles, channels, tees and tubes, praising tubular posts for strength, built in tongues to prevent loose staples, ornamental tops, and secure galvanized bottoms that anchor in soil. It notes re-digging and reshaping ends when resetting.
The Armistice did not stop Red Cross work in the Gulf Division covering Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. In six months seven Field Stations assisted 4,181 men with home problems, gave information and advice to 7,000, and hosted 69,644 entertainments across 371 events. Volunteers made 11,828 hospital visits, distributed 9,000 dollars worth of comfort kits, cigarettes, etc, and aided 383 men in financing 5,000 dollars for that purpose. The excerpt also includes an unrelated humorous quip about Jim's engagement.
Fragmentary line shows a man asserting the need to make many sacrifices for his children. The quote underscores parental resolve and personal cost in supporting family welfare. No further readable context available.
Once famed lawyer and British lawmaker Sir Luke White rose from an office boy to a knight and MP. After neglecting his practice, he sank into debt and bankruptcy with liabilities of 135000 dollars. He quit Parliament to recover, but a nervous collapse led to hospital care and finally a transfer to the poor farm where he dwells in memories of former glory.
Popular Mechanics notes a proposed Great North South highway paralleling the Mississippi from Lake Itasca to New Orleans about 3,000 miles long. Proponents claim scenic value and closer ties between the North and South, with a drop of about 1,575 feet from source to mouth.
A garbled exchange features William asking for a hat and being offered a Sunday one. The dialogue references gardening, punishment of the ex-kaiser, and a fragmentary remark about valuable suits in Europe. The text appears as misread OCR with broken lines and odd spellings.
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