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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1903
Page
2
The sixteen year old star, praised for her charm and songs like Comin Through the Rye and Home Sweet Home, announces this will be her final U S tour earning five thousand dollars nightly. Boston crowds miss Dr Lorimer at Tremont Temple as Dr P S Henson arrives as new pastor. writer notes much to tell but time runs out.
The Leader alerts subscribers to expect many statements in the next two weeks and urges prompt payment. With cotton prices 9 10 and 11 cents, back rations and year renewals should be easy. The paper notes price increases reflecting its doubled weekly size and offers The Home and Farm together for 2 25 cash while editors face seasonal expenses.
Excerpted private letter from Lizzie Purser at Emerson College of Oratory Boston describes improving health from coastal visits and bracing sea air. She praises Shakespeare studies and lectures by Mrs. Mary Livermore and Prof. Andrews, noting inspiration and the value of uplift amid busy lives. The letter recounts her Shakespeare course and recent performance experiences.
Prominent Vicksburg attorney Otto Singleton Robbins found in contempt of court for refusing to reveal ownership of funds loaned around Vicksburg in back tax cases. Judge Anderson orders testimony on money owners despite Robbins claiming oath integrity. Sentence suspended pending appeal to the state supreme court. Additionally notes a separate bridge contract award and a World’s Fair day reference from 1904 and an old clothing sale notice.
Franklin county citizens meet at Meadville courthouse on December 4 1903 electing R E Bennett as chairman and D Q Griffing as secretary. A finance committee and a hundred strong secret-detective group are appointed to fund and seek testimony against lawbreakers with district volunteers named.
Commissioner Henry outlines Mississippi’s display for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He describes a central Agricultural Hall focus with King Cotton statue, plus Forestry, Horticulture, Education, Mining, and Manufactures pavilions. The Beauvoir replica building will house Confederate memorabilia and Davis artifacts including uniforms.
An excerpt extols Paine's Celery Compound as a cure for disease and a life giver. It claims to purify the blood, build up nerves, and restore vigor, urging women to use the remedy for nervousness sleeplessness and overall strength. The passage presents bold claims of widespread lifesaving benefits and vitality enhancement.
An old advertisement asserts Scott's Emulsion safely restores strength and color to pale individuals. It claims cod liver oil nutrition fuels blood health, with teens cured of a mysterious blood illness through regular use. The label image is promised on every bottle. Scott & Bowne, chemists, New York.
The educational exhibit, its gathering and disposition, has been given into the charge of the State Superintendent of Education. A salaried corps sorts and selects the exhibits arriving at the old capitol, with plans to have them ready for shipment to a. Louis by spring.
Yazoo hosts a street fair while Yazoo City and Silver City charter banks. Jackson sees cocaine use cited as a social issue. Biloxi draws winter visitors as Supreme Court plans a Christmas adjournment. Knights of Pythias add members across the state. Yazoo’s supervisors allocate funds for a World’s Fair exhibit. Gulf Port sees a railway accident fatalities. 800 bales cotton move from Brooksville to Macon. A 20-year-old J. G. Moore dies by self-inflicted gunshot in Tipelo. Lauderdale County reelects its board after fourteen years of service. MacKay improves prospects for a World’s Fair exhibit.
Notice of public auction by substituted trustee in Lincoln county Mississippi to sell property described as parts of sections and quarters to satisfy debts secured by trust deeds to British American Mortgage Company. Auctions set January 11, 1904, at the Brookhaven courthouse with cash bidder terms.
Trust deed sale announced for August 1904 at the public auction in Grand Forks to satisfy secured debt. Property includes the southwest quarter and west halves of the northwest and northeast quarters in section three, township 61, range six, totaling about 280 acres, with the right to bid cash. Sold by substituted trustee Og Sapsiitaten to satisfy the debt and wagered terms.
The substituted trustee K P Wittang will sell at Brookhaven court house on January 15 1904 between 10 am and 1 pm the West half of Section 20 and various other parcels totaling about 2140 acres in Township 8 Range 5 East to satisfy £4000 debt secured by a trust deed to the British and American River Company. The sale conveys title as vested in the trustee.
A sheriff sale notice for January 1902 in Lincoln County Mississippi lists James Hodes as plaintiff and Ts laner as defendant. The writ directs sale at the county courthouse at eleven in the forenoon and two in the afternoon, describing property to be auctioned from sections and townships in ranges to satisfy the writ and costs.
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