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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1899
Page
3
A collage of jokes and quips from various periodicals features light irony and social satire. Dialogues range from flirtatious banter to political barbs, with sketches about courtship, newspapers, and a public library gag. Notable lines involve miscommunications, mistaken motives, and comic moralizing.
A dated column describes Chinese women and manners, noting Empress Dowager's power, dress, ritual gambling, trousseaux, and childbirth customs. It contrasts Chinese and European ways, mentions insular practices, and includes household tips on washing silk and a brief peach dessert recipe.
Readable text describes child’s apron fashion with lawn material, four yards needed for a seven year old, yoke tucks, empire style folds, home or affordable yoke making, spron fabric used for back and skirt, shoulder straps finished with ribbon bows, sash trimmed with tucks, and skirt featuring tuck groups at the hem.
The article describes hand embroidered handkerchiefs with fine linen, hemstitching and lace edges, and monogram designs. It also recounts Burmese marriage rites where a courting maiden offers candy to a suitor, with minimal ceremony if accepted. Veils and monogramed gloves are discussed as fashion notes. Various garb remarks include veil placement and fabric patterns.
The Farmers' Voice notes the difficulty of selling surplus farm products, especially honey, through middlemen. It advises producers to visit nearby families, offer samples or small quarters, take orders, and build a local direct-market system. Merchants rarely stock honey and demand higher profits, making direct selling more lucrative.
Farmers should locate pig beds away from other stock and away from living areas. Warm bright winter quarters with south wall windows allow sunlight to reach pigs, promoting health in breeding rows and early spring farrowings. Avoid keeping hogs with cattle or horses to prevent feed loss and injury.
A concise description extols a compact workbench built from an empty grocery box mounted on legs a shelf below for storage and a hinged front cover for securing tools. It claims every farm needs a small bench to repair and fabricate small items essential to farm operations. A secondary note discusses horse foot angles in shoing and toe heel measurements for even shoeing.
The article notes enormous war costs including over 100 million in destruction of uniforms and clothing. It cites France losing 370 per thousand in service, Germany 310, Russia 210. Government spending topped 4 million daily late in the Civil War. naval expenditures show 802, 42 million in 1863, 63 million in 1864, 55 million in 1865, totaling 127 million. More than a million French women became widows and 148 thousand French children fatherless due to Napoleon campaigns.
A reader testimonial extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for female ailments. The letter credits Mrs Frantsce B Morrwas of Canton Ohio and references Mrs Toff man’s described condition and Pinkham’s long experience handling correspondence for a major women’s remedy business.
A tangled collection of humor and anecdotes. Joseph Jefferson and son Tom spar with a vaudeville joke about circus acts. A Detroit depot worker recalls a cat named Senator who outwits workers after a Chicago move. Classic pithy quips follow from Cincinnati and Chicago papers.
A jumble of OCR garble comments and quotations from early 20th century sources. It references a business negotiation with a $85 000 figure, leprosy concerns for returning soldiers, and assorted ads and health tonics. Names and places are fragmented and unclear.
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