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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1902
Page
8
Weather changeable and town quiet after summer visitors depart. Updates on residents: Mrs J J Whittington and baby thriving. findings on local schooling, church visits, and farm work. Mentions of travel to Jackson, Laurel, and Braxton, school shifts, and upcoming events including an ice cream supper.
CLEARY. Health good. Weather a little cool, but fine for work. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Smith, on the 11th, a fine girl. P. . and R. L. French, of Jackson, visited relatives, returning Sunday evening. W. E. Odom and wife visited W. J. French and family, returning Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smith, Jr., visited Mr. and Mrs. Norvel Hilton, returning Sunday evening. H. A. French and Miss Maggie Scarborough visited relatives in Jackson Saturday and Sunday. Farmers are a little blue at the price of cotton. Wish it would be all seed, as they are worth more than that. Mr. and Mrs. P.B. French return.
An old advertisement explains blood production in bones and spleen through marrow fat. It touts Scott's Emulsion as a fat rich supplement using cod liver oil to feed blood makers and strengthen pale invalids and schoolgirls.
Simpson county district meeting attendance reports and new home addition by R E Knight. Local residents including the Huffmans on the sick list show improvement. Kate May elected to teach Lochabar school. Fred Harp wounded on Gulf and Ship Island railroad but not seriously. Several visits, farm activity, and cotton picking mark the period. Walter Tucker dies, sympathy extended to family.
Heavy rain hampers cotton gathering while O A Sanderson is on the sick list. W H Harper trips to Brandon. Mrs O H Langford of Hattiesburg plans to return home Saturday. The local school continues to grow as residents note the value of education.
A local prayer group boasts strong attendance with Saturday night services. Young men are commended for active participation in religious exercises and the community notes their positive example.
Pelahatchie reports Rosa Longmire and Mollie Oliver leaving for Blue Mountain and East Mississippi colleges while many area girls head to various colleges. Sol Welch and Pete Oliver are named as likely sheriff candidates next year. Prof. Ward of Shiroh praises his school and a reflective piece recalls rural loneliness and tradition alongside brief medical ads and endorsements for King’s New Life Pills and other remedies.
A public notice style snippet mentions Castoria for infants and children the kind you have always bought, plus remedies for chronic constipation and a Brandon girl who refused a marriage offer, noting an odd reaction to a would be brother in law proposal. The item includes local names A G Thornton and A L D Rhodes of Pelahatchie.
Fragmentary excerpt warns against unnecessary surgery and promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for cuts burns bruises wounds and skin diseases while referencing anti flirting stereotypes and a claim of Spanish customs in Cuba.
J C Phillips and A G Thornton tout DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as quick comfort for ailments while Josh Westhafer from Logote Ind. praises Chamberlains Pain Balm though costly, claiming it saved him from crippling stiffness and rheumatic pains. Sold by A G Thornton and A L D Rhodes Pelahatchie.
Reader letters and advertisements from a historical paper mix political jabs with medical product notices. The page cites Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised by W S Brockman of Missouri and notes local distributors A G Thornton and A L D Rhodes of Pilahatchie. DeWitt's Little Early Risers are endorsed as gentler liver medicine.
Notice to teachers outlines examination dates for white and colored students in September and October. Includes a moral excerpt from C R Cook and a health testimonial praising Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea during travel.
The text shows garbled phrases and quoted musings on underwear and honesty. It preserves scattered ideas about women and appearances and a vague critique of falsehoods likened to fleas, suggesting an editorial or literary fragment with unclear attributions or context.
The Queen and Crescent route offers round trip tickets to Birmingham Alabama for the National Baptist Convention colored event dated September 17 to 24 1902. Sale dates are September 14 15 and 16 with final limit September 27 1902. Open rate. quickest route via Meridian Mississippi. Contact nearest Q and O agent or R W Bonds T P A Meridian Mississippi.
Woman praises the product claiming improved energy and digestion with no headaches. Ad cites ready-availability at multiple local stores including A. G. Thornton Brandon and A. L. D. Rhodes Pelahatobie with price of 25 cents.
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