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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
3
The article urges young men to avoid public toughness and loafing, stressing that true respect comes from civilized conduct. It compares boys and girls in partner choices, advocates keeping a garden of wholesome books and home papers, and praises wives who prioritize home duties and self restraint. It extols daily courtesy and Christlike gentleness as the test of character, with a focus on parental happiness and moral self-improvement.
Twenty year compilation from sixty five Mississippi stations shows September normal mean temperature 76 degrees. It notes September has not forecast value and records the warmest month was 1900 with high rainfall.
The record lists average high and low temperatures, extremes such as 104 at Aberdeen 1907 and 30 at Batesville in 1496, frost dates by region, monthly precipitation averages, notable rainfall in Biloxi 1898 and Jackson 1906, plus wind from the southeast and cloud patterns across the state. The data highlight climate variability in early 20th century Mississippi.
A Civil War writer recounts marching after Gettysburg with Lee’s retreat to the Potomac. At Hagerstown Maryland the blue and gray met at a Masonic lodge that evening with masons from every state present, the lodge closing and both sides resuming arms under Masonry’s level and square.
Captain Bill McDonald ex-Ranger and State Revenue Agent, a long-time Roosevelt friend, is in north Texas and has received an invitation to join the African expedition. John Abernathy, United States Marshal for Oklahoma, has also been invited.
An advertisement extols Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as relief for various pains with no habit formation and no other effects. It claims attacks become less frequent or vanish, and emphasizes calming nervous irritation without side effects.
The text notes a longstanding admiration between President Roosevelt and Captain McDonald. It mentions a years ago meeting in Washington where McDonald visited the President and they discussed plans for a big game hunt during a later expedition.
The Brandon dairying group led by M C Stubblefield and partners ships about 200 pounds of butter weekly to Jackson, netting roughly 25 cents a pound. A 20 cow dairy ships around 80 pounds weekly. Summer feed is 4 of net butter returns, winter feed equals about half of butter receipts. Skim milk sells as hog feed and droppings fund annual fertilizer value. dairymen use separators and wrap butter in paper, stressing regular feeding and milking. Land is affordable. seek to engage in dairying here. Citation Notice. State of Mississippi. Hugh Franklin summoned to appear in Rankin County Chancery Court on the fourth Monday of September term 1908.
The State of Mississippi issues a non resident notice to John and Es Rankin County. Mack Kane and others are commanded to appear in the Rankin County Chancery Court on September 1 to defend the suit Lo Foster is the plaintiff. Dated August 18, 1908. J Watkins and Watkins are solicitors.
Letters of administration were granted August 14 1908 by the Chancery Court of Rankins County Mississippi to Robert L Aills administrator of the estate of Sallie D Aills deceased. Creditors must present claims to the court clerk for probate within one year or be barred. This 14th day of August 1908.
The County Union event has been postponed from October 9 and 10 to October 23 and 24. The note invites locals to participate and signed by J. W. Taylor, C. O. P.
Westbound service with Pullman Sleeping Car from Shreveport to Chattanooga connects to through Sleepers to New York and Cincinnati. Dining Car available. Shreveport to Meridian through coaches and Sleeping Car plus Dining Car. Rates and details at Geo. H. Smith, Gen. Pass. Agent, New Orleans.
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