26 Oct 1916
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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1916
Page
1
A Scranton man proposes using a bacteria called azoa to control rats. He states it inoculates rats without harming dogs or poultry and spreads as cannibalistic rats feed on each other, destroying populations in isolated farms and beyond.
Odom announces a special sale starting November 4 with prices cut deep across seasonable merchandise. The piece also urges readers to vote in the November 7 elections on prohibition measures, notes local social events and church services, reports on residents and incidents, and mentions a poultry prize win and farm movements. The column lists local movers like J. A. Robinsons and the Crooks, plus upcoming entertainments at Johnson Hall and the schoolhouse.
A mass meeting at Pelahatchie urged organized citizen action against the liquor interest ahead of the November 7 vote. Dr Lipsey chaired. officers named: Stuart Gammill chair, D B Ward vice chair, R A Stingley secretary. Committees chosen. next meeting set for Thursday night with Prof Thomas Brand master of ceremonies and Dr P S Lipsey addressing.
The Brandon High School boys organized the D. D. M. Club. Weekly meetings occur in Johnson Hall on Thursday evenings. Officers include Melville Turner as president and Leroy Atkins as vice-president, with a promising class of workers.
The item highlights a remedy for catarrh with advice to use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It also covers a forthcoming marriage of a Meridian high school alumna who attended Centenary College, with plans for a wedding trip to Milwaukee Madison and St. Louis before settling in New Orleans.
A pistil of local notices describes a November 3 PTA program in Johnson Hall with five talks by Miss Daisy McLaurin Stevens Miss Beulah Lowenberg Mrs Daisy Stevens and Rev R P Fikes. A Halloween celebration follows October 28 with a short play The Witching Hour by Trilbie Beard and other revels. Also listed are bread deliveries from W G Barnes and a marriage announcement for Betty to Dr James Clifton Cole of New Orleans with ceremony planned in late November at 6615 Woodlawn Avenue Chicago.
A fragment notes a sales event at Odom's promising a lucrative payoff for customers who choose to wait for the special sale.
For a Muddy Complexion. Take Chamberlains Tablets and a diet of vegetables and cereals with outdoor exercise daily. In Finland a 1914 population of 3 196 700 is divided among eight governments. Helsingfors is the largest city at 154 000. Teachers serving in the British navy or army may count service toward pension for public elementary schools.
Readers learn of a claimed cure for catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. The ad asserts the remedy works through the blood to mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward if it fails, with testimonials and nationwide druggist availability.
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