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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1903
Page
4
Miss Theresa Mendle visits Hazlehurst as snow begins, with local social and business notices. Elllis Cooper from Millsaps College visits. numerous ads for jewelry, heating stoves, watches, shingles, and local services accompany brief town gossip and upcoming sales and events.
Forest fires ravaged Lincoln county areas with Prof H A Bigner losing his home in Fair River and Mt Zion school destroyed by sparks. Public fire danger prompts updates as Brookhaven reports snow and ongoing city efforts to bolster police presence and public services.
Saturday Evening Post recounts wonders and warnings as a consul arrives in Mera talbo Plumacher greets him with warmth then withdraws touching and recalls deceased countrymen who died of yellow fever. In Iowa a commencement humor unfolds when Colonel Burnett uses a knife as a paper weight to steady a fluttering manuscript.
The text recalls Senator Hoar during a manuscript reading where his knife vanished into his pocket after a lively period, provoking laughter. Dr Cyrus Northrup later criticized the act as hypocritical, while Hoar produced the borrowed knife and its duplicate. The tale spans decades and includes other clipped anecdotes from various papers.
A broad collection of brief items covers industrial demand for American machinery in foreign markets, wartime ship speeds, labor and banking in Germany, vaccination in France, London housing statistics, Canary Islands drawn work, rail and tram tech, electricity as medicine, mid Pacific harbors, Mississippi reservoir ideas, and freight costs. Includes scattered notes on coffee in Brazil, polar expeditions, and agricultural schools for women.
A confusing ad-like fragment promotes Ayer's Pills claiming to cleanse the tongue and improve stomach and liver function. Mentions prices and unclear product notes, with garbled wording and stray product cues.
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