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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1915
Page
7
A lively exchange depicts a worried elder’s fear of an accident aboard a small English railway while an Aboriginal onlooker explains the line’s staff shortages. He mentions his son stepping in to drive the train, though doubts about his expertise are voiced.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment to treat dandruff itching and scalp irritation. It promises a clean scalp for healthy hair and offers free samples by mail with a postcard address in Boston. Also included is a brief quotation about personal conduct.
IMMEDIATE ATTENTION should be given to sprains, swellings, bruises, rheumatism and neuralgia. Keep Mansfield's Magic Arnica Lini ment handy on the shelf. Three sizes 25c 50c and 1.00. A bachelor girl is sometimes an old maid who is ashamed to admit it.
A Boston schoolboy, twelve, wrote about Abraham Lincoln, noting he was born in February 1809 in a log cabin rebuilt by his father. A second note describes a daytime aurora observed near Viking Alberta, at latitude 53 north, before sunset on April 22 with bright hazy streamers visible through a cloud curtain.
Louis N. Robinson wrote that denying work and earnings is cruel and unusual punishment, forbidden by the Eighth Amendment. The state commission deemed unemployment a core issue in the prison system, advocating reform to restore the right to work.
Ad promoting La Creole Hair Dressing promising to restore gray or harsh hair to former beauty and luster. Mentions price one dollar and urges purchase for switch to a desirable look.
A reader notes that garden tools can serve as furnace implements. A new gasoline engine claims fuel use of only one twentieth of a drop per charge. Pacific coast hops are mostly harvested by machinery.
E O Sellers presents aOctober lesson from II Kings 11 4 12 describing Jehoiada Jehosheba and Joash saving the heir to Judah Athaliahs brutal reign and the crowned king receiving the law The piece contrasts holy training under a pious priest with a nation corrupted by ambition and explains coronation rituals and the significance of scripture in royal governance
The London Globe notes that the picturesque gleaners have faded from rural scenes but may return this year due to high corn prices. The piece reflects on the gleaners accepting postharvest gathering as reapers’ toil ends.
An old advertisement promotes Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic as a malaria preventative and iron supplement. It claims Quinine drives out malaria and iron builds up the system, priced at 50 cents.
A brief exchange features a host asking about politics and colonial possessions while a guest questions the home’s authenticity. The fragment mentions Hanford's Balsam as a remedy for cooling burns and hints at moral judgments tied to guilt.
An advertisement warns against mercurial calomel and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable laxative alternative. It claims calomel is poisonous, causes bone decay, and unpleasant sickness, while Liver Tone cleanses the liver and bowels without salivation, with a money back guarantee and claimed morning vitality.
A mosaic of brief quotes and ads from a historic page. humor about a statue with wheels imagined in its head. warnings about rust nails and poison, promoting Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh. hair shipments from China. a cavalcade of products and quips including a golf jab at elections, Femenina, Renovine tonics, and a tiny fish amid a puddle.
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