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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1899
Page
3
An aged directory lists Lin County officials and district designations with names such as Daren President and Hirvant Wimsatt in various districts. The text includes scattered references to trustees, clerks, and local officials amid frayed OCR marks and misspellings.
Fragmented OCR entry lists names and offices with numerous garbled words. It references city officials and a notice of an event or fest day in the evening, though many terms are illegible.
Readable fragments describe visits and illnesses among Brookhaven residents and neighbors. Notable names include Parsons Hurst Sherman Maxwell and Moreton & Co, with mentions of shipments, church events, and a new store entry at The Laban Office.
A story from Dec 1 recounts Lizzie Mullins and her estranged husband Friede Friebe in a doomed romance. Lizzie fled an Oklahoma divorce with her brother to meet Friede on a midnight train. she stabbed him on a trestle when he threatened to kill her, then escaped into swamps. Later, Moss Anglin killed John Mullins in a dispute over the case, firing multiple shots at Anglin’s shop. Anglin surrendered, claiming self defense in a violent sequence tied to Friebe’s dispute and a family tragedy.
Whitworth Female College in Ayerston Mississippi files a new charter. The college charter aligns curriculum with Methodist Episcopal oversight, aiming for conference approval to standardize curriculums across female colleges in the state. Other items note road and bridge discussions, county expenses, and legal notices.
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