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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
6
A historical ad style text warns buyers about cheap adulterated white lead and promotes National Lead Company with the Dutch Boy trademark. It offers a free painting test book, cites other products, and ends with various health remedies and a catarrh cure promise along with typical testimonial terms.
W J Conners now chairs New York Democratic State Committee hailed as he arrived on the Ohio street dock in Buffalo with 1 000 burly dock wallopers. He boasted he could lick any man in the gang but Fingy stepped out saying he could not be defeated. The crowd dispersed, and the incident ended with Conners promising payment and leaving the dock as the man he could not lick remained in line.
R L Scott owner of a farm near Guymon endured a wild night as the windstorm rose to peak velocity. He sought the storm cave and was blown through three hog tight wire fences, ending up in the Sand Creek breaks three miles from home as the storm subsided.
A Virginia mother credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her health and enabling her to nurse her baby. She reports the baby grew strong and the mother regained strength after starting the cereal. The note emphasizes whole wheat and barley base and the brain nerve nourishment from grain minerals.
Greenville Mississippi news wire reports the death of Washington county sheriff Harvey Miller in Chicago at 58, leaving four children. Interment planned in Greenville. Also notes mayoral police terms in Hattiesburg, levee board work in Greenville, cotton equinox fears, Lucedale school bonds sold, Natchez-Rayville line condemnation, Utica revival closes, Richton robbery tied to tree, Brookhaven bonds sale, O Reily property sale, Gloster compress starts, and McHenry interest rise despite a garbled closing line.
Meridian firm files complaint with Interstate Commerce Commission against Crescent Lumber and railroads for carrier discrimination on a Kennedy Alabama to Detroit shipment. Also reports disappearances of H B Mann and hotel funds, an attempted assassination warning near Brookhaven, a near completion of a Tangipahoa river bridge, oyster trade prep in Ocean Springs, Snooty Valley Railroad plans, Lambert hoisting machine, drought-stricken Seminary cotton, Natchez fire losses, drownings near Fayette, Cat Island litigation, Gulfport anthrax case, Prentiss cotton and seed shipments, Knights of Pythias membership gains, and Pascagoula paving contracts.
September and October bring fairs across Mississippi with strong exhib its and rising attendance. New fair efforts emerge in Baldwyn Boonville Oktibbeha Col umbus Yazoo County and Lake Camp Ground while Delta and Scott Newton fairs grow. The State Fair in Jackson runs Oct 27 to Nov 6, with boll weevil talks and Farmers Congress drawing large crowds and experts from Louisiana and the U S Department of Agriculture sharing methods and demonstrations.
A Natchez conference speaker argued that an earlier weevil outbreak might have spared the South during the war. He noted districts worst hit were forced to pull out, yet those who endured with intelligent farming recovered and prospered afterward. Farmers' Union Warehouse plans a cotton classing course and upcoming management change.
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