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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1905
Page
3
A fragment from Colliers Weekly and a translated NY Sun piece mix Wright-era rhetoric with a domestic tale. A girl, Gaston de Tournettes, and a plan to charm her father unfold against a backdrop of deception, family fretting, and the promise of quaint lies to smooth life in Paris society.
A daughter recalls her father’s insistence on truth. On a Cherbourg trip she openly corrects a guard about her brother’s age and defends honesty against a governess, then faces aunt and household tensions with frankness.
A Chicago Chronicle report describes a laundrys lost and found department operating like clockwork. Two collars are cleaned and ironed in a vertical cylinder, then laid on linen mats. A shirt contains two diamond buttons worth 1000, found by a pretty girl near the window. The owner is credited for promptly reclaiming the buttons to protect the house name. The tale ends with a torn pocket note found in trousers, tied to a millionaire owner and a fatal father accident.
The readable fragments indicate concern for community safety and potential danger. Mentions of a place likely Chicago and references to authorities suggest a public notice about risks and the need for caution. The text is garbled but hints at deliberate forgetting or suppression of details.
In a detailed memoir the Reed commission shows yellow fever spreads only via the stegomyia mosquito after a defined infectious period in the patient’s blood. Major Reed and assistants tested nonimmune volunteers in Camp Lazear Havana, confirming fomites do not transmit the disease.
A damaged fragment reports a man, once suffering severe kidney trouble and weight loss, finding relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills. The testimonial credits Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo and states the product is sold by all dealers for 50 cents per box.
A dated Chicago Daily News style piece mocks reckless boating thrills. It advises hiring crew ignorant of waiting, inviting many friends, and courting danger for paper publicity while warning against storms and unnecessary risk. It ends by noting reporters might write about yachting as a dangerous sport and help life-saving crews.
A San Antonio Press note recalls William Ziegler as a witty benefactor of Arctic expeditions while recounting a florid anecdote about a mercurial grocer and a clerk. A Minnesotan testimonial from Monticello promotes Dodd’s Kidney Pills as a Bright’s Disease cure, followed by a quip about an iceman and a cake on a shoulder in Indianapolis.
An Omaha Bee report extols Cuticura Ointment as the most effective remedy for skin and scalp troubles including hair loss. It promises immediate relief after a single application following a hot bath with Cuticura Soap and possibly Calicura Resolvent Pills, noting special usefulness for infants and children and urging care against inflated prices.
Fragmented prose offers aphorisms on restraint, ambition, and character. It contrasts self reliance with reliance on machinery or others, noting that true success comes from steady effort, timely action, and mutual respect rather than boastful displays. The piece references managers, engineers, and social conduct in a reflective, moral vein.
A fragmentary dialogue unfolds with warped humor on soap plans, family trees, and social pretenses. Misheard lines mix with jokes about money, thunder, and a parlor freak of nature, mentioning a seamstress and a shirred veg in a chaotic parlour scene.
A Turin professor Baiard perfects eye photography for diagnosis. French engineer Otte markets a home water purifier at similar cost to electric incandescent lamps, purifying 60 gallons hourly with Ozond disinfectant. A western “current motor” pumps irrigation water via lever blades. British patent office notes cooking leads patents, umbrellas and hats also prolific. cycles and motor vehicles show growth since 1900.
Business brief notes a hundred lines of interests: 200 firms produce concrete block molding machines, England faces a bicycle boom straining output, soap boiler workers enjoy long lives while grindstone makers have the shortest. Electrical gear replaces horses in Scotland’s oil works. Germany has 17 mills making tissue paper, and leads global output. Tin mining expansion appears in South Africa with new lodes in the Transvaal and known rich cassiterite finds at Vinklaagte, yet metallurgical value remains undetermined.
Rev Joseph W Cross the oldest Harvard Andover alumnus celebrated his ninety seventh birthday. Ohio Wesleyan awarded D D to Rev Byron Palmer author of Gods White Throne. Rev Dr Barnard M Kaplan Bush Street temple San Francisco received from President Roosevelt an autograph copy of California speeches. Glasgow University awarded D J O to Rev W H Bentley for Congo service and work on the Congo dictionary and grammar while translating the Old Testament.
Fragmented text presents unclear names and actions. The readable portion references an attorney and a figure labeled Jeten Denghist-Petty with a scene involving grasped items and a young attorney Wilt. The exact event, dates, and places remain unreadable.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound touted as a remedy for tumors of the uterus and wandering pains. The ad features letters from women reporting relief or removal of tumors without surgery, urging others to write for advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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