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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1889
Page
4
A satirical tale follows Bleuthhound president of detectives as he stalks a Chicago murder case. He shadows suspects for days, disguises himself as a Norwegian immigrant, and mingles with crowds before a city-wide manhunt draws attention from reporters and the public.
In a Chicago tale, Sleuthhound and Dogherty H. Sleuthbound chase a murderer amid cheers for Sleuthhound. A newspaper reveal disproves a key suspect as drunken man under a fence is found dead, ending the suspenseful week at headquarters.
A satirical testimonial from the Brooklyn Eagle mocks a literary magazine editor in Arizona who declined a piece not for merit but because the editor had plentiful endorsements to run the issue for millennia. The piece parodies medical panic and legal woes tied to a horse incident and a jury’s supposed cure.
The piece argues Africa’s colonization by European powers may unleash vast upheaval and slavery trade, urging the United States to lead anti liquor regulation in the Congo Free State. It critiques Western hypocrisy, links abolition to civilization work, and calls for a national policy to curb distilling and trade that harms African peoples. The author, A. Disinterested Outsider, appeals for congressional action and international coordination.
A flatboat landing tale near Joyner's Bend on the Little Red Tiger unfolds as Bob refuses to gamble, recounting his wife’s illness and the medicine money. After a night of drinking and a death in the woods, Aunt Silvy declares the child is dead, while kin discuss coffins and the recovery of planks for a coffin.
A collection of light humorous vignettes from a late nineteenth century paper includes a bill collector quip about a man named Goodenough who asserts his name, a charity worker’s remark about fighting the wolf at the door, a fashion quip on the color Dana and a cartoonish exchange about Algy Baboony and a sixty day extension.
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