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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1884
Page
1
A Victorian era note urges housekeepers to standardize measuring tools to improve cooking and medicine dosing. It discusses varying cup sizes, suggests using uniform teacups and spoons, and recommends a "minim glass" to ensure accurate dosing, stressing health benefits and practical pricing from druggists.
A garbled report outlines a Teonlon patent for a device to create elevtrenty and ties it to textile dyes and materials. It mentions various researchers, processes, and markets, with scattered notes on safety, export, and potential impacts on farming and production.
A Third street banker courted a widow famed for three late husbands. He proposed a business partnership and marriage, but she rebuffed him citing safer ventures. The scene shifts as a serious accident in Union County, Oregon ends in a brutal death where a Chinaman suffered a fatal scalp injury.
A fragmented collage of jokes and quips on candy sales, odd toys, and social glimpses. Snippets include confections like wine candy, a New York toy talk, misheard phrases, a will reading, and a child misattributing brandy to color a doll.
A fragmented tale urges total abstinence from drink, comparing indulgence to dangerous rapids. A man, tempted by alcohol and social pressures, resists until ruin and death, while a friend’s warning leads to a decisive break for survival. The piece frames temperance as essential for personal safety and independence.
The excerpt cites temperance arguments from Union Signal and Advocate and Guardian, noting a London crime rise then fall in 1881 1883 and describing a drunkard’s home with a mother intoxicated and four children threatened. It warns of saloon mischief and daily liquor consumption while urging reform.
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