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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1883
Page
1
Fragmentary verse from a mid century text explores enduring love versus aging. The speaker questions whether affection can preserve youth and beauty, suggesting love as a remedy for weariness. The piece references healing and moral growth through steadfast devotion.
In a faded reminiscence a quiet old woman known as grandmother clings to the old house in Tioga County, resisting progress as a store and changes engulf her world. The narrator recalls her vigilant intuition, humor, and elegiac mornings by the chimney, until a sweeping fire, demolition, and loss sever her last ties to the past.
A fragment discussing thumb lore and palmistry from Pall Mall Gazette. It surveys legends about thumbs in ancient and modern times, noting thumb biting as a pledge or challenge, Scottish bargains sealed by thumbs, references in Romeo and Juliet and Decker, and the emperors radiators and Chinese thumb impressions for criminal identification.
A burglar entering the Choate home is shot and killed by Mr Homer Choate while Mrs Choate directs fire from the bed. The couple, praised for calm, coordinated actions, are urged to receive thanks from New Jersey authorities for preventing a trial and saving public funds. The tale highlights revolver usefulness and the couple’s decisive teamwork.
A collage of jokes, poems, and quips from various papers, including a quainter exchange about wall tiling, a Chicago Herald passenger tale, and satirical snippets on mesmeric tricks, thieves, and a lengthy temperance argument. It also covers a public figure, Mr Keeble, undertaking a 1,000 mile walk to prove temperance virtues, finishing 1,025 miles in 456 hours with acclaim and a future challenge.
Erie Railroad and the Chicago and Alton Railway adopt a total abstinence rule for all employees. The policy discharges anyone who drinks even off duty or who drinks excessively, arguing that alcohol is a danger to safe operation and property. The interview emphasizes sober, alert workers and condemns the old convivial railroad culture.
An intelligent twelve year old errand boy, burdened with three large packages of dry goods, struggles to walk from the Press office to multiple downtown stops. He explains daily duties with fatigue yet shows resilience, citing fourteen other boys and ongoing work for a large local firm. The encounter ends as he contemplates continuing his rounds.
The text argues planetary life is real though nonconscious and finite. It describes planetary cooling, Earth's mid-life state capable of life, and the balance of subterranean forces shaping continents and oceans. Cataclysms threaten life, yet volcanic energy sustains Earth's habitability despite upheaval.
A survey of temperance activity notes no prior temperance organization in China a Hong Kong hotel and a Shanghai Good Templars lodge. It cites a weekly temperance paper titled Temperance Linton and discusses Kentucky corn prices versus Ohio whiskey. It mentions Florida liquor licensing and Supreme Court rulings on local prohibition measures with expectations that Southern states will join temperance debates nationwide.
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