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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1902
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text provides limited readable items about a local issue or notice with scattered place names and dates, lacking clear events or outcomes to form a full summary card. No coherent persons, organizations, or places can be reliably identified for a credible report.
A scrambled local column records visitors to Crystal Springs and surrounding towns, upcoming opera house shows, marriages, and business notes. Names include J W Bicollets, Steve Kenith, Dr Harry Watin, J J McGrath, Alma Johawn, K K Beck, Bogue Chitto figures, and many itinerant professionals. The piece also mentions a theater engagement, a wedding in Caseyville, and Brucey town notices.
An advertisement extols breakfast products available from a local retailer. It highlights Ralston’s, Pettivohn’s, Quaker, Nudavese, Cream of Wheat, and New England Buckwheat Flour, noting prices and package sizes for items such as cracked wheat oats and rolled white oats.
At the regular stockholders meeting the Commercial Bank elected J. We. McGrath as president Louis Cahn as vice president F F Beckers as cashier Ford V Becker as assistant cashier and named a list of directors including J W McGrath B I Becker D Cohn and others. The capital stock was increased from fifty to eighty thousand dollars and the bank reported strong business and bright prospects.
Tax collector sale announced for a March 34 1902 date with unreadable garbled proper names and unclear parcel details. The fragmentary text lists individuals such as Hilary Herring Mullin and Wyatt Meretor among others, but the exact properties and conditions are not decipherable.
In memory of Mrs. TC Parnell and a flood of items from Brookhaven area including church affiliations, family notices, local business updates, medical endorsements for Chamberlain remedies, town personalities, and a court bail hearing report on Geo Wood tied to Netherland murder inquiry.
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