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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1902
Page
2
A poet writes of a found saintly mother who guides restless children and brightens the earth with gentle care. The prose laments moral decline while praising steadfast virtue, devotion, and the quiet daily work of motherhood as a divine calling.
Mel H. B. Kells urges Governor to back State Prohibition and promises a drafted bill by Judge R. Thompson with advisory figures Robt Mayes Leaver and Calvin Wells. The Vicksburg Herald notes a city saloon grossing 2,200 in a single holiday day, underscoring dry counties' potential losses.
Mississippi officials consider legal steps to dissolve the late year merger of the Southern Railway and the Mobile and Ohio. Attorney General McClarg awaits railroad commission guidance after a Columbus freight conference urged action to curb rising rates on flour, meal, corn, oats, and ties.
The city council meeting on December 18, 1864, allowed numerous accounts including legal, publishing, school furniture, and insurance costs. Present were Mayor J. B. Daughtry and Aldermen Why, Scherck, and Seavey. Moreton and mn were absent. A motion adjourned the session after approving expenditures for the public school and power house, with warrants issued by City Treasurer.
Natobex reported offices last year while Tanica swore in D R Allen as mayor. The Capitol building advances, Longino Guards rent an armory on Capitol Street, and Vicksburg’s Inc Company bins raises output to eighty tons daily. Meadville hosts a Christmas concert with receipts of 7 dollars and 70 cents. Mardi Gras dates fixed, and several fires, murders, and civic notices weave through a busy Mississippi snapshot. Major local figures, schools, and infrastructure projects populate the page with named towns, churches, and companies.
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