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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
2
The Brandon News outlines advertising rates 2 cents per inch for display 2 cents per word for first insertions 1 cent for later insertions and similar word rates for For Sale Lost and Similar notices. It stresses careful word counting and payment to cover costs and urges merchants to invest consistently in ads with proper store setup and sales staff.
The piece argues newspapers reflect civic vitality and praise advertising as essential to papers and business success. It asserts a prosperous city has snappy papers and highlights that most subscribers would miss ads, urging judicious advertising as a boost to both papers and local commerce.
East Nashville Tenn grocer W N Parsons endorses Thedford's Black-Draught as the best liver medicine for sour stomach indigestion and torpid liver. He says it keeps him from bed without it and cites widespread use across the country. The ad warns to accept no imitations and to always ask for Thedford's.
A West Texas editor proclaims the paper will print plain truth after public calls him a liar for minor errors. The item lists local residents including Jon Bennin, John Coyle, and Dave Chartier, notes Dave Holderness’s presence at his death, and reports marriages and other town gossip with sharp sarcasm and critical judgments. It portrays community figures and events in a biased, sensational tone.
A Budapest woman reportedly became mother to five babies at one birth, a case described as occurring once in seven million. She already had ten children including twins and left hospital after a month with all five infants in good health, per the Mayersville Spectator.
A civic urging on pride beginning at the home. The author argues that towns rise from small beginnings through thrift and will, citing cities that grew from hamlets to metropolitan centers. If residents improve their homes, the town and state will prosper, making the locality a paradise to live in despite geographic limits.
A short note extols publicity as the world’s best safeguard for the public interest. It argues publicity is the greatest preventive of wrongs and the most effective public protection ever devised, surpassing all other safeguards.
A quirky op ed note claims 85 percent of human ills stem from constipation with the line drawing a humorous parallel to human suffering and moral failings in a single cause narrative.
A vintage advertisement boasts Wilson's Liv R Sirup as a cure for liver afflictions. It claims the product is gentle, non putrid like Calomel, and offers a money back guarantee. Sold at first class drug stores for 50 cents per bottle. Manufactured by Capitol Medicine Co. in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Lexington Adviser argues that courts and juries exist to deter wrongdoing and insists on fullest publicity for all public offices. It warns that officials who hide public affairs reveal either shame or incompetence, asserting a strong stance for transparency.
At a War Finance Corporation meeting in Jackson on October 3, the Agricultural Loan Agency was formed. Oscar Newton of Jackson was chosen chairman with J T Thomas of Grenada as vice chairman. The agency aims to aid banks in making agricultural loans, with loans limited to one year and interest at 6 percent, or 5 1/2 percent for six month advances secured by Liberty bonds. The Mississippi agency will forward recommendations to the War Finance Corporation.
An Eastern Shore editor received a letter from an unknown correspondent boasting of a flirtation scheme. He explains the elaborate racket but discovers the inquirer is his wife, leading to delirium tremens and no amusement. The Dixie Press reflects on consequences of self exposure.
A Madison County Herald excerpt notes a chain candy store announcing a 60 percent price cut while accusing candy magnates of long standing 300 percent profits. It argues that a 50 percent reduction would yield only 250 percent profit, questioning how the business can continue under such conditions.
Chancellor Griffith sustained the Knapp Stout Company demurrer in a Mississippi case over 440 acres donated to A and M College to land ownership. The state alleges public land law violations and fraud in bidding, with possible forfeiture to the state if fraud proven. Trial to proceed on fraud proof. appeal unlikely before verdict.
Congressman Humphreys praised ex President Wilson at a Patrons Union meeting noting his work after the war. He cited Wilsons push to form an international organization and a tribunal where nations could bring disputes for resolution.
The passage argues that postwar attempts to adjust without war failed, condemns the generation for preventing noble aims, and cautions that Woodrow Wilson’s virtues and faults will be judged by future historians as enduring, with his name potentially recorded alongside greats like Abou Ben Adhem.
A purported quote attributed to President Harding claims he would not appoint colored men to Southern public offices, allow some Northern appointments, and urge Blacks to align with white leadership to advance their status, a statement the article finds hard to fully credit yet notes as potentially pleasing to Southern readers.
The speaker disputes a misquote attributing strong sentiments to the President. If confirmed, the language would not match his character. The comment addresses a Society for Advancement and its stated aims regarding colored race progress against whites.
Sears Roebuck and Co advertising manager Herman Rosenfield explains a bureau reads weekly country newspapers nationwide to detect towns where merchants do not advertise locally. The firm floods those territories with literature, claiming far better results than using local papers.
A tribute to birth, marriage, and death notices as the core events shaping a hometown paper. It emphasizes daily life items about local people, urging readers to subscribe for their home town paper and renew subscriptions.
The Progressive Farmer urges preventing hog lice before fattening hogs and suggests remedies or hog oilers. It notes farmers must harvest crops promptly to avoid losses from floods and storms and emphasizes saving or purchasing seed for cowpeas and legume crops for next spring.
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