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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
7
Excerpted reflections urge acceptance of life’s currents and the limits of human effort. The text warns against fighting fate, urging humility as the river of time shapes all. It then shifts to Progressive Age prose about a novelist contemplating a haunting portrait and a secret painting revealing aging and mortality.
A novelist keeps a portrait of his deceased wife above his desk and, as his work grows, the likeness matures into lifelike flesh. He questions madness, discovers the painter is dead, and accepts a miracle that the portrait ages with time while his living companion supports his craft.
A surgeon dreams of a crowd of patients debating his case and proposing a cascade of operations. A little girl protests vaccination, recalling her past shot, and the dream ends with the surgeon deciding to vaccinate the child next day, then reconsidering. The tale ends with the judge’s reflection.
A Porto Rican man explains learning English easily but admitting a long struggle to dream in English. He says he dreams in Spanish and, after hard effort, finally dreams in English, waking to cry with joy. The anecdote appears in Youth's Companion.
A speaker laments modern male style signaling decline in manliness, citing old era fashions from George Washington like knickerbockers velvet trousers silk stockings buckled shoes and feathered hats, arguing men then were manly enough to forgo emphasis on dress.
Editors hesitated to use nicknames for Williams College president Harry while discovering Cleveland mayor Tom. The observance underscores how formal given names shape public perception and reporting.
The Southwestern Police Court in London allowed a monkey to use the pavement if unobstructive. Across Europe, animals were tried in various courts from 1120 to 1740. Records reveal formal proceedings. a 1457 case in Larigny involved a son and herst young ones, with piglets acquitted for youth handling.
In sharp banter the exchange mocks Miss Barker for silence and Miss Sneerwedd for constant self focus, highlighting a social clash within the Smart Set. The dialogue centers on reputation, speech, and public persona among socialites.
A jumbled clipping touts Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills as a cure for eczema and poisoned skin in children. It cites a Mrs Lizzie Vincent Whomag from Walden's Ridge and notes a boy with poison oak healed in weeks. Also mentions an immigrant overload at Ellis Island and a grocery request for six cans of Argo Red Salmon.
The advertisement claims Wine of Cardui provides relief from pains assailing women and calls Cardui a pure vegetable extract with curative powers for womanly organs. It cites Mrs Minnie Lambe of Lebanon Junction Ky praising its benefits over doctors and notes over a million women supposedly helped in fifty years.
James R. Keeler of Cazenovia New York testifies that after years of back and kidney pain he found relief with Doan's Kidney Pills starting with one box and continuing with two boxes. He says Doan's sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box and praises his wife and friends' results. The note adds birth-rate data for England and Germany, noting declines with Germany at 34 per thousand and England at 28 per thousand.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer line a barker named Screechem quits his continuous talking after marriage. A Baltimore American bit notes a rich suitor to Maud, mocked for being a curmudgeon yet promising alimony and money.
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