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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
5
Local items report illnesses, visits, and business openings in Brandon and Jackson Mississippi. Notes include cotton seed prices, millinery promotions, new ads, marriages planned, moves to Jackson, school licenses, and a naval lieutenant’s wartime service details.
Friends recount Lieutenant Jayne making a twice repeated journey, once with a Chinese crew that faced mutiny threats. His modest bearing is noted as he shares little of himself, and well being after a long absence is celebrated by those who admire him.
A mixed notice lists dental display dates at Star September 20 and 80 and Florence October 1 and 2 by P. P Walker dated September 22, 1902. It includes an advertisement for Bonar's Big Six hat at Busick's, and promotes Prickly Ash Bitters for regular digestion and energy, sold by A. G. Thornton.
Public sale notice for the two story residence of the late A G Cassell on College street Brandon Mississippi. Contact Wm Buchanan Brandon or L H Chapman executor Vicksburg Sept 18 1902. Also an advertisement for King King s New Discovery for consumption and lung troubles with testimonials and local drug store availability.
In Langford Mississippi H Bethune advertises the sale of a pair of Fairbanks platform scales in good condition. Hot days followed by cool nights may breed malaria and bilious or costive body states and Prickly Ash Bitters is urged as valuable for regulating stomach liver and bowels, sold by A G Thornton.
On the first Monday of September 1902 the County Board of Pension Commissioners approved applications Form 3 for Mary A. Brinson Piety E. Gates Sarah Irby Mary Myers Fannie A. Warren Maranty Tucker Harriet Williamson M A White and Form 4 for David I. Myers Z A McMillan G W McWilliams James McDonald A J Rogers W H Storey Townsend.
Henry L. Shattuck of Shellsburg Iowa was cured of a long stomach trouble after years of ailment by four boxes of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. He had tried many remedies and physicians without relief. For sale by A. G. Thornton. Prickly Ash Bitters also advertised as a system cleanser, available through A. G. Thornton.
The Eastern Manufacturing Co of Chicago will give every baby under one year in the county a solid silver engraved baby spoon at no cost. No purchase required. The local distributing agent invites parents to bring the baby to the store, provide name and age, and receive the engraved spoon. Also invites a look at the company’s jewelry line at A. L. Rogers in Florence, Mississippi.
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