08 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1891
Page
1
Rev Talmage’s Christmas discourse traces the Nativity journey from Bethlehem to Cairo, praising the wise men’s gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh. He emphasizes Christ’s universal rule over worlds unseen, and calls for earthly and heavenly frankincense in worship.
The narrative recounts Senate sessions on rule changes and elections bills, with Hoar Wolcott and Teller figures debating the elections measure and adjournments cited. It also notes personal items, political notices, and various global and domestic affairs including deaths, treaties, finance, and disasters.
Report of a massive blaze on Broadway near Twenty eighth street destroys the Fifth Avenue Theatre Herrmanns new playhouse and nearby stores. Six firemen die in Herrmanns Theater as gas tank explosions propel flames, with evacuations and ongoing battles through the night.
Two brothers aged twenty two and nine and a seventeen year old sister die from exposure at Medicine Lodge Kansas on the fourth. A porter in New York finds six thousand dollars in diamonds, returns them for a one hundred dollar reward. Java coffee crop nearly ruined at sixteen percent of normal. A shooting in Gladesville Virginia leaves four dead. Wealthy Prince Owens murdered near Helena Arkansas by unknowns, body mutilated. A Lovel wedding in Blue Lick Indiana after river floods delays ceremony. Denton family in Haynes Arkansas blessed with two boys and a girl. Corsicana Texas fire at Avenue Hotel kills four found in ashes believed Birmingham kin. Upper Ohio reports high water risk but colder weather may ease floods.
The fifth annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association convened in the state capitol with welcome by Bishop Galloway and an address by Prof. D. G. Dewpree, who urged dignity and responsibility in teaching and urged cooperation with regional and national education groups. Reports discussed curriculum, pedagogy, and reforms, with notes on normal schools, county education control, and a state lecturer proposal. Officers were elected and resolutions pressed for clerical support, charter pedagogy, and a whites-only normal school.
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