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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1884
Page
1
A long OCR fragment describes a brakeman named Dave Driggs and tales of a heroic act, saving lives during a blizzard as a train neared a closed crossing. The narrative recalls his calm, selfless actions, lantern held aloft, preventing a disaster and earning praise from city papers, though he remains modest about the recognition.
The account recalls Captain Charles W. Austin and the Confederate steamer Susanna in Galveston Harbor. The Susanna ran the Union blockade amid heavy fire, escaping to open water then reaching port after a perilous chase. The vessel, later condemned as a government prize, carried arms for the Confederacy during fall nights near 1861 1862.
In a princely parlor a bride objects to wine at her wedding as guests push etiquette. Marion envisions a mournful scene of fever and death, then smashes the glass. She vows never to touch alcohol again, hoping her fiancé joins in the pledge amid temperance zeal.
A Toledo piece argues beer ruins health like rot in wood and meat. It describes gradual decline from moderate to heavy drinking, linking rotting bodies to war-time energy loss and beer industry profits. It urges vigilance against beer’s spread and its social costs.
A fragmentary 19th century scene critiques temperance campaigns and saloon life with references to a Maine prison inmate and a New York Women’s Temperance Home. It questions respectability, reveals social pressures, and underscores moral caution amid alcohol culture.
Four years after George Pateh a German resident left for the Southern country with a consumptive condition his fate remains unknown. He returned briefly to the city then vanished in Los Angeles until June Isc% with friends believing him dead. A Santa Barbara paper recently reported recovered remains fueling speculation about his fate.
The article recounts the famed pigeons in St Mark's Basilica in Venice, noting their long history from church chapels to city symbols. It covers legends of gratitude for wars, Palm Sunday dove releases, and the pigeons' protection by saints, with mentions of charitable acts by Countess Poleastro sustaining their care.
A collage of one line jokes and quips about crops and mornings, editors and ministers, poets and jellies. Bits include a peach crop warning, a breakfast joke, sleeplessness advice, a four keyholes gag, church visits, jelly vs poetry, a saloon-keeper inheritance jest, and office satire.
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