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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
5
A jewelry store advertises a new assortment including jewelry optical goods stationery musical instruments silverware and more. It highlights a new stationery and musical instruments department and invites customers to inspect the line and help ensure its success. The shop offers passe-par-tout framing bindings and promises attentive service to all visitors.
Local notes report cotton selling at nine cents and turnips faring poorly while residents engage in farm and town matters. Mentions Walter Waddell visiting, Miss Laurie McLaurin leaving for Belhaven College, and updates on taxes, property valuations, and forthcoming Brandon Millinery Parlor opening amid community notices and local commerce.
Classified notice seeking a pony for purchase or hire with saddle gaits preferred. Also advertises cooking stoves from W G Barnes. Readable as brief local notice with two distinct items.
A property is offered for sale near the depot with terms to Mrs. DC. V. Denham. The notice suggests prompt service and good goods from W. G. Barnes as a point of contact or endorsement.
Notice to the churches of Rankin County Baptist Association requesting names of those expected to attend as delegates.
A Grenada paper column lists church event details with arranging committee notes, a school board meeting notice, and assorted local ads. Items include mill services, a Missouri school whipping anecdote, notices for molasses and flour, job ads, and a sermon series outline touching on biblical themes and social reform. The piece ends with editorial commentary on crime, disease, and religion.
Sealed bids are due by 12 m on the first Monday in October 1903 at the chancery clerk's office for building a bridge over Steen's creek on Terry road per plans on file. The board may reject all bids. G W White, Clerk. Also advertising Owensboro Wagon and a millinery offer at Brandon Millinery Parlor with Hats and Accessories.
Virgil Mississippi writes to Brandon News of a plan to publish a series of thirty one letters on the Holy Land Canaan or Palestine. He promises the letters will distill forty years of scriptural study and history for the edification of young people and readers, with a sense of spiritual accountability.
A Cleveland area story recounts a clever dog in a Triffin Ohio home that learned to claim a parlor chair when the new tenant woman sat there. The dog would bark at the window to signal the woman, who then gave up the seat, until the dog himself sat in the chair.
A Rankin county notice promotes a specialty shop featuring ladies and childrens underwear, a large assortment of hats selected in New York and New Orleans by milliners, and silk waists. Hats are unique, with exclusive patterns, and the shop invites ladies to inspect goods contrasting with drummers samples from country stores.
A partisan plea warns against neglect of freedoms and government stance, invoking patriots of the Transvaal and Orange Free State and urging vigilance against destructive pressure from abroad. An advertisement promotes Prickly Ash Bitters as a system regulator for digestion and general health.
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