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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1900
Page
4
Railroad timetables show arrivals and departures between Canton and Water, with multiple stops and connections noted. The page also lists sales, store ads, social visits, church services, and local gossip including guests, household goods, and medicinal cures.
The Government Agricultural Department report for 1900 predicts a cotton crop of about 10,100,000 bales, triggering a market panic and price decline with a slow rally outlook. Prices for top grades slip to 8.75 cents in Brookhaven as analyses foresee possible rebounds to 10 cents by mid January and higher by March.
An invitation from Dr and Mrs Joho Jay Buckley to Mary Eitenbeth Buckley and Louis Emil Menger for a December wedding at Christ Church Saint Prudl, Minnesota, and the couple’s later home in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Public notices include a debate between local literary societies at the public school, discussing whether the Negro has been a blessing to the South, with admission ten cents and proceeds to the societies. Also notices for bicycles, a cotton seed house, an appetite boosting tonic, and local drug advertisements plus a report correcting a church leadership error and a croup remedy endorsement.
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