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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
4
A sermon like miscellany from The Brandon News quotes a Kansas newspaper on race and politics, praises republican papers, and notes Senator McLaurin’s tour of state farmers institutes. It blends humor, rebukes, and partisan nods to bolster political support.
J. S. Weiss of Greenville representing the Cotton Picking Machine company of Pittsburg stated in Vicksburg that contracts will harvest 1,000 acres of cotton this fall from delta plantations with the new machine. Two hundred acres are set for Morris Rosenstock Co and Washington county, Crawford's Heberman place in Sunflower county, two contracts of two hundred acres each in Dahomey Bolivar county, and one near Sunnyside Ark on the Percy and Crittenden estate. Inventor August Campbell of Pittsburg backs the machine as a cost reducer and forerunner of a new era in cotton making after a practical test in Leflore county last season.
A collection of pointed proverbs on manners and virtue, peppered with health product ads. It notes idleness, vanity, and reform, then promotes Prickly Ash Bitters for stomach and digestion with notices for A. G. Thornton and A. Thornton.
Classified snippets report a horse for sale a 14 hand jack with folding ease and contact O Nobl in Edwards Miss Also Henry L Shattuck of Shellsburg Iowa credited with stomach trouble cure after four boxes of Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets Offered by A G Thornton and a Walter A Wood mower for sale by H A Busick with cash price note
A Sorrell horse aged about 10 or 12 was reported missing from a Brandon pasture. It bears a large scar on the right hip and is described as a good saddler. A liberal reward is offered for information leading to recovery, contact C. E. Gayden.
Advertises a missing or sought young Negro boy aged about 17 with ginger cake color, 140 to 150 pounds, wearing a red shirt blue pants red tan shoes, last seen without a black hat. Offer of $10 for delivery to the requester, W. 8, Orook, Sheeitt.
Department of the Interior Land Office at Jackson Mississippi issues notice of final proof for a settler to be made before the Chancery Clerk of Rankin County in Brandon on September 10 1902. The notice lists the Georgia Choctaw Meridian land and names witnesses O L Calguhaun James Flanagaman Lynwood J A Chapman and Charlie Dickerson of Virgil Mississippi. Fred W Collins Register.
The piece touts Electric Bitters as a cure for consumption pneumonia bronchitis coughs colds and throat and lung troubles with testimonials from W H Brown of Leesville Ind and Rev C J Budlong of Ashaway R I. It promotes 50c to $1 bottles and lists local druggists A G Thornton A L D Rhodes Pelahatchie and C A Norman Cato. It also references a health resort in Covington La as a potential cure site and notes regional interest in the Ozone Belt health zone near New Orleans.
An infant in Bookwalter Ohio recovered from cholera infantum after use of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. A neighbor praised the remedy and reported full recovery within two days when used as directed. Also mentions Bucklen's Arnica, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, and Prickly Ash Bitters as cures or aids.
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