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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1903
Page
4
Miscellaneous items report visits by Hartman and Cantoni relatives, repairs and real estate notes, engagements, marriages, illnesses, and upcoming schedule changes. Local businesses advertise watch repairs, roofing, jewelry, and hardware.
The Leader lists couples issued licenses by Circuit Clerk Oliver and notes a church services schedule for Easter week. The record includes many names such as Whites John M Prichard and Cleo Watts Edward, Byas Fuller and Cilla Brister, Thomas Lard and Narcissa Porter, and Rob Conk Harris and Mary L Moor, along with religious service details for several churches and a court notice of fines and licenses.
The Clarion Ledger Jackson Mississippi will provide the most complete session report for legislative subscribers at 3125 cents per month or 210 per year weekly. Brookhaven city cases include fines for drunkenness profanity and carrying concealed weapon with amounts noted. The Times-Democrat notes Pearlhaven rise to town status and census showing 1017 inhabitants, plus Lord Pauncefite detective tale with a safe.
A Babylonian style tale describes a man living in a grave for 51 days as a spiritual marvel, with rosewater, almonds, and a bamboo alarm. Other notes cover the Duke of Bedford’s armored train, a child’s hospital scene, German underground wires, emigration trends, and short local notices advertising remedies, auctions, and goods.
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