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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
2
In Woman's Realm a review notes only minor changes in fall and winter coat fashion, with longer coats that widen the figure and higher collars. Velvet dominates millinery with three new hat styles in velvet, felt, and velours, while trims emphasize contour through tinsel braids, embroidery, and ribbons.
Mirror balls arranged on a dark wood center stand form luminous, colorful ornaments. They reflect lighting and decorations without showing guests, set among a shallow basin used as a small lake for floating flowers. Additional enhancements include celluloid butterflies, with growing use for porch decor and metal standard supports.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters urges greater care in home construction to slow fire spread. A 115 page booklet from its committee covers floor and roof design chimneys flues smoke pipes fire stopping and general protections. It highlights dangers from shingle roofs unlined chimneys unprotected stairs and shafts and cites inexpensive devices to improve safety for builders owners and the public.
Brookline Massachusetts shows a civic program to invite and shelter birds to combat the leopard moth plaguing trees. Since 1910 the town has installed 100 nesting boxes and expanded feeding stations, feeding thousands of birds daily at public expense, with plans to intensify the effort next season.
Do not throw away vegetable ashes as they offer garden value. Cotton hull ashes can contain up to 30 percent potash and have sold for 40 dollars a ton. Ashes from deciduous trees are more valuable than those from evergreens. nitrogen is often burned out, so decomposition in soil is preferable to combustion.
Guidance on creating a simple attractive country house entrance using stone pillars and a durable gate. Emphasizes harmony with surroundings, vines and flowers, and cost-conscious options when landscape services are limited.
Dr J Haldane told British mining engineers that coal dust does not kill germs yet may lower phthisis death rates among colliers. He noted no occupation is completely healthy and cautioned that airborne particles can harm workers despite advances in protection.
A domestic guidance piece urges feeding hens according to nature and poultry experts to maximize egg production. It argues that proper care makes hens cackle more, boosting egg yield and profits, especially as winter approaches and egg prices rise. It stresses study, good literature, and applying knowledge to achieve consistent cackling and financial gain.
Farmers should separate breeding stock from market turkeys and feed breeding birds a lean diet of corn, wheat, and oats. Boiled oats aid health, but over fattening market birds can cause liver disease and winter deaths.
Chickens hatched in May and June are ideal for caponizing as early cockerels fetch high broiler value of two to four pounds and capon market opens mid January to mid March. An eight to nine month capon from larger breeds weighs seven to twelve pounds. live capons bring 18 to 25 cents per pound, roosters 6 to 8 cents. Capons may mother chicks or sit with positive results in some cases.
The article outlines male to female ratios for fertile eggs by breed size. Small breeds need about one male to 10 15 females, medium breeds one to 8 10, and heavy breeds one to six eight. The male's activity is a factor. Charcoal aids digestion in heavy feeding, keeping the digestive tract sweet. Use large vigorous mates.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable alternative to calomel for liver digestion. It claims calomel is dangerous mercury causing bone necrosis and sickness, while Dodson's tone cleanses the liver, eases bowels, and does not salivate. The pitch includes a money back guarantee and family use.
A hermit who calls himself the incarnation of Fudosama lives in a small coop near the botanical gardens paying $2.25 monthly rent. He asserts miraculous powers, chews laurel leaves, and survives on a stark diet of laurel leaves raw potatoes salt and water. He began his pious life after saving his sick child with a candle and water meditation.
Fragrant, creamy hair and skin emollients promise clear skin, dandruff relief, and soft hands. Free sample by mail with Book from Cuticura Dept L Boston. Also includes humor about shopping and a jailhouse remark on a supposedly normal patient.
Frances questions Flora about marrying for reform revealing a young Bond. Flora notes Bond is miserly and spends on a fine painting collection from profits. A visitor remarks on the high cost of the paintings and their frames.
An old advertisement touts La Creole Hair Dressing at $1.00 for restoring gray or harsh hair. A quip mentions grasshoppers damaging farms down to the first mortgage. A note declares electricity in Elloburgh a municipal monopoly. References Kentucky and Pennsylvania as major cannel coal producers in the United States.
An Atlantic Monthly excerpt describes German barbed wire defense using soft iron corkscrew posts driven into ground. The posts support wire while withstanding shellfire, unlike wood posts that shatter under bombardment. The design creates a persistent obstacle as the wire remains up or falls only when destroyed.
A Detroit Free Press style gag set details a prolific inventor touting a pedestrian shock absorber. The piece satirizes quick riches schemes and city price contrasts, while riffing on fortune tellers and a chorus of comic nicknames. It blends short quips into a collage of humorous lines.
In a Detroit Free Press odd exchange a father declares I am a nervous wreck and says he must rest. A child asks what happened at the office and the father explains I had to call two people on the telephone today.
A shuffled notice mentions a Washington inventor patenting powerful weed pulling tongs and comments on war marriages, noting unhappiness appears later. The text blends odd product ads with social observation, lacking clear event details or dates.
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