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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
2
A reflective poem fragment urges readers to seek the sunshine in life and endure change. It contrasts harsh toil with inner virtue, urging perseverance, hopeful dreams, and to keep conscience clear while doing one’s work. The verse hints at fortune fading and virtue guiding onward.
In Paris, Feb 5 1900, art dealer Penard plots with John H Tressor to steal a lottery prize. Penard outlines a scheme using a mayoral official who resembles Tressor to run the drawing. The plan hinges on swapping the drawn number for the capital prize and avoiding the rightful winner.
In a Paris district, a man hailed as M Tressor used trickery to stage a lottery draw. He swapped tickets, staged a kidnapping, and exposed a winning number B118059, as confusion over an impersonation and prize scheme unfolds.
Capt Amundsen the Norwegian proposes a 1903 expedition to locate the magnetic north pole aboard the Gjoa. The voyage aims to test whether the magnetic pole is a point or covers a large area, departing after winter from a Norwegian Arctic base toward Ross’s 1831 reference and Booshia.
King Edward has long loved fires and firemen and recalls with joy a New York parade of 6000 uniformed volunteers, torches blazing, as the prince cried this is for me. He often attended major fires in London incognito in the last thirty years, per Everybody's Magazine. A proverb notes many fail by chasing quick money over honesty.
In a small South American state near Acajutla Izalco erupts nightly, and villagers watch for lava to signal the volcano’s supper. If eruption stops they fear a catastrophe and seek signs, cooking and offering medicine to appease the devil. Their daily life blends superstition with caution as they await lava’s return.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee offered his view that a group of young Spanish officers tied to Weyler caused the Maine blast. He cited seizing the magazine keys, two explosions, and a bottom-directed force, while noting the naval inquiry found no accountable individuals. The Indianapolis Journal predicted the mystery would be resolved by secret holders in time.
A tale of lovers spurning letters vows to never speak to women ending with a monument in Vienna. A jilted bachelor forbids color in his house keeps sisters from inheriting unless they dye their hair to match his whim. A Manchester merchant fades for a rival as a daughter with auburn hair is chased by strict rules. Usually the little things are the last we are willing to leave to God.
A railroad station agent on a rural line, awaiting payday to buy clothes, set his alarm early to rest before a midnight fast mail run. The alarm failed, he leaped to throw the mail sack onto the crane, but his trousers were accidentally hurled onto the crane and sent with the mail. The tale ends with humor and a note from Harper's Magazine June edition.
The tale recalls ex Justice Roger A Pryor presiding in a naturalization court and rigorously testing applicants. An Irishman failed to answer, leaving the court to deny citizenship, then muttered that someday the old Tammany Injun would again run for office and not get his vote.
Uncle and Aunt Melcher visit a clock dealer who demonstrates a cuckoo clock that birds out and sings at the hour. The joke ends with the wife. she refuses, saying it would waste her forenoon to care for such a clock.
A testimonial from Miss Evita Beaa Carne of Fond du Lac Wisconsin extols Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving eight months of suppression and bodily debility. It praises regular cycles and renewed vigor, while noting the ad claims of genuineness. The note invites ill young women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn, Massachusetts.
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