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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1902
Page
4
Directory shows county officials and meeting dates with fragments of names and places. Obituary and death notice charges noted, along with rates for cards of thanks.
Local notices from Brookhaven and Hazlehurst capture social visits and entertainments. Highlights include Abram and Mrs. Turner Blackwell guests, a new Racine buggy for family use, a Mayoral bid review on street work bids, a Tacky Party at the college, and marriage of Miss Ola Magee to Dudley Milton with best wishes from friends.
A jumble of items from a Confederate Veterans event in Dallas April 22 25 includes travel bonds and tickets to Memphis Tennessee Derby Day and other race days. Offers and extensions for departure dates, agents listed in several towns, and notes on fares and returns. Also includes a Card of Thanks from a Mississippi family and a local medical testimonial about Sure Kidney Care.
Melirath stocks leading corset brands including Warner's Rust Proof and Weingarten Bros W. B. Corset plus new shapes. About 100 Corsets offered at sacrifice with many as is styles, odd sizes, or unboxed items. Prices include 1.50 corsets for 95 cents 1.00 corsets for 60 cents and 75 cent corsets for 49 cents.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that reaches the disease at the blood and mucous surfaces. It asserts efficacy, denies quack status, and claims endorsements from physicians, urging readers to send testimonials and noting price via mail order.
The Brookhaven Star reports Sunday visits from McComb and Hazlehurst, local business notes, and social events. Mentions include Leighton Jones in Wesson, Miss Julia Shamburger visiting McComb, and Dr. Burford at Brookhaven Drag Store. Foundry moves, piano recital planned, and Bernal social notices fill the page with community activity.
A contested poem faces rejection and press debate as editors refuse to print it without a request. A irate reader vows to take the work to an opposing paper, claiming the local outlet silenced a favored voice and warned of boycotting the paper in his home. The exchange ends with a note on humorous rules for tennis and a caption about a fox terrier.
A collage of quips and small items from a local page includes jokes on doctors and babies, weather, and everyday life. It notes M. Wooten shot in a construction camp near Wesson, with four men jailed awaiting the grand jury next Monday.
A large Brooks theater crowd acclaimed the Boston Ideal Opera Company after The Pretty Persian. The ensemble and longtime stars received praise, with two curtain calls and forecasts of a packed house tonight. The page also runs ads for Smith's Sure Kidney Cure and local county teaching examinations.
The Brookhaven Mississippi city council adjourned from an April 4 1902 meeting at 7 30 p m with Mayor J B Daughtry and Aldermen Moreton Willoughby Schnorrenberg Jederck and Seavey present. The board adjourned to April 5 at 8 p m. The following day bids for street work were rejected and the street committee empowered to arrange work and garbage removal until a new plan is adopted. The board next adjourned to April 11 at 9 p m with Moreton absent.
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