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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1899
Page
4
Fragmentary notice outlines travel times and connections from Jackson to Memphis with arrival and departure details. It references the F. C. branch roads and bus connections, indicating aims for through service and coordinated timetables.
Directory lists officials across Brookhaven Hazlehurst and Canton including judge Oliver clerk Felix May and district appointments. Mentions chancery court meetings third Mondays February and September. Notes superintendent and treasurer roles, with scattered names and towns in a fragmented county roster.
Official city directory lists Mavon J Th Daughtry and W H Seavey among ward officials, Chas Schneorrenberg in Fourth Ward, and mentions committees chaired by F Heulek and W H Seavey. It notes the mayor and Board of Aldermen convene monthly on the first Tuesday evening.
A patchwork of local notices, shop promos, and short updates. Annie Hurst visits Biloxi. Lotterhos Bakery promotes bread and cream bread. Dr Pepper advertised as the perfect beverage. Georgia Bowsky returns from Cooper's Wells. Mrs Polly McComb visits Frank Greer at Jones hotel. Legal notices list jail defendants. Weather mentions rainfall last Wednesday hour.
Mrs. K. Eades of Detroit Michigan extols Peruna for catarrh and general relief. She cites personal cures and urges others to use the remedy, noting a grocer’s success selling it and her daughter’s jaundice recovery. Dr Hartman offers free counsel to women and a health book on request. All druggists sell Peruna.
The column mixes household ads for bedroom suites and an odorless refrigerator at Tom Perkins' store with social visits in Hammond La and Jackson streetcar progress. It reports a fatal shooting in Lawrence county, a political note on a county treasurer race, and a discussion about a chancellor appointment. An medical ad extols Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, while local gossip mentions a Miss Hurst meeting in New Orleans and a ride on Jackson’s first electric streetcar.
Constable Middleton shoots Tilden Demiers after a tense arrest near Beauregard, with Demiers wounded but alive and later captured. The article also reports a death in Jackson from Brights disease, a falle afield crop and weather notes, plus local notices and community updates from Brookhaven and surrounding townships.
An advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a restorative aid to ease labor. It claims quicker, less painful delivery, smoother recovery, and fewer postnatal dangers, emphasizing a calm mother leads to a well-tempered child and a healthy infant. The text includes garbled financial notes and duties from a county press submission.
McMillan announces in Leapen his candidacy for re election to Justice of the Peace, stressing merit and an independent stance. The letter by Mrs. Geo. Brapiek of Liberty praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy, recounting its life saving aid for her daughter during a dysentery episode.
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