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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1900
Page
6
Fragmentary text references Brookhaven and local entities such as CONOKAR AND BANK and a few scattered names. The readable content lacks coherent events, dates, or actions to summarize into a clear news item.
Official directory text lists alley and area names with garbled spellings. Mentions Mayor and Board of Aldermen holding regular meetings on the first Tuesday evening each month.
Jo Storm's bakery gains fame for best bread in Brookhaven as Dahlstrom Bros promote Nubey Gas Lamps and bicycle bargains. Miss Maude Culbertson visits from Jackson. many townsfolk travel to Chicago, New Orleans, or Kentucky. Community notices include drilling schedule, medical ads, and parish events.
Fine rain today and local people at work on farms and in businesses. Notices mention Ford Becker’s move to Brown's Wells dig, Capt J F White as recorder, Miss Bennie Dunn visiting Crystal Springs, price lists at Price W Watson, and widespread telephone complaints. Numerous social visits, shopping at M Price Co, hospitality events, and local repairs. Also reports of robbing in New Orleans, church services, and educational catalog request from Whitworth College.
Lincoln County delegates were elected to the State convention to be held in Jackson on August 15. Also named were A. K. Gumith J. F. White A. K. Smith and A. W. Smith as a compressional committeeman and candidate for DermMissioner. Also mentions health ads and local court fines and notes on new cotton crop facilities and Millie Mouton, a 10 year old housemaid who died in Rayne Louisiana.
The Tex J e Community meeting of the County Committee to select past books will convene at the Court House at 10 o clock A M on Angust 19th 1900 All persons with business before the committee are urged to attend H C Bailey President Epoan Green Secretary Also Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets touted as easy to take and pleasant in effect for sale by C B Gratton
An officer in a Highland regiment sparked a Las Palmas sensation wearing a kilt landing from Lake Erie. The crowd described him as a “man petticoat” with Scotch stockings provoking flutter and police debate. A German morphine cure by Dr Otto Emmerich, a distilled vegetable oil, reportedly ends morphinismus in weeks. Russian liquor controls fail as aquor fuels ruin, while Delaware Maryland peach prospects soar per Pennsylvania Rail Road estimates. DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve promo closes the round.
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