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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1884
Page
4
A Brookhaven Leader style feature adapts Harper's Bazaar guidance on letter endings from classic writers. It highlights how to craft closing sentences that connect with the body, and notes preferred closings for strangers and friends.
A compact discussion on balky horses, its likely causes from neglect or improper training, and remedies. The piece notes that what works for one horse may not for another, and suggests stopping briefly, kind words, pats, hay, an apple, or pepper to stimulate movement. It includes anecdotes of quiet waiting and patient circling to prompt progress.
Three cases recount dramatic escapes during trials in California. A judge was shot at the start of one hearing as jurors warned that a verdict would seal a prisoner's fate. In another, an oversight let a defendant go free after the judge declared him bound over. the bondsman disappeared. The third details a sheriff guarding a prisoner in a log hut, only to wake to find the prisoner missing as dawn broke and the hut door opened. From the London News.
A veteran recollects Nick the horse in a cavalry scrape where the beast charged, toppled, and misbehaved amid a wild, chaotic advance. Despite the chaos and near disaster, Nick proves his stubborn spirit, with the Captain ordering retreat as the squad fled and the horse retained a gleeful victory mood.
Oldest Shaker member Dolly Sexton, born 1777 in Canandaigua, NY, was left with the sect at age five. She has lived 102 years among the Shakers, still lucid and mobile, now approaching 107 in age per the Longalo Express report.
A Buffalo wholesale fish firm runs eight local branches across the United States and conducts combined business of 600000. The firm reports its largest activity in Lake Superior Huron and Georgian bays though fish stocks are shrinking and scarce.
A collage of kitchen and garden guidance notes from Prairie Farmer and New York papers. Includes potato selection advice, cinnamon, baking ideas, and a milk panada recipe, with remarks on calabages, butter, apples, and crackers transformed into a soft boiled dish.
Advice from Country Gentleman notes that feeding only corn reduces laying and weakens hens in spring. A balanced mix of corn with vegetable and animal foods maintains health, prevents overfat, and supports egg production. Different breeds and laying status require tailored rations, with corn kept within reach but balanced by other feeds.
A Boston Transcript correspondent doubts Mr Means's airship will outshine prior designs. Experts warn that lifting and horizontal screws clash and the craft may need major rearrangements. Skepticism mounts about practical space navigation despite occasional hope for a breakthrough. Dr Cushman of New York, confined to an asylum, believes only he is sane and seeks to cure others. In Plantegenet Quebec, a corpse removal was interrupted when a house fire broke out and the building burned, preventing the funeral cortege.
A vivid retelling claims a giant serpent 31 feet 2 inches long was captured near a hollow ground. The account describes a copper plate bound by a leather thong in its neck, eyes described as nearly blind, and a carved oak plug sealing its lair. The narrator attributes the creature to Daniel Poone and suggests the stake was fixed to imprison it in a treeless hollow.
A fragment lists names of Mayflower era passengers landed at Plymouth three hundred sixty three years ago in alphabetic order and blends in ad blurbs for patent medicines and home remedies. The text shifts to notes on Sidacola Oil St Jacobs Oil and cures, with scattered jokes and a Norristown Herald-esque aside about charity and weather.
A Detroit area notice details the sensational claim of Willam Crombie a Birmingham man living at 251 Michigan Avenue who allegedly recovered from a perilous ailment after using a mysterious cure. The piece quotes Crombie and cites press reaction, with endorsements from local clergy and physicians.
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