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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1885
Page
2
The text lists club rate offers for postpaid subscriptions and notes editorial items across several papers. It reports on Dasota seeking statehood, counterfeit money threats in New Orleans, and political refusals. It mentions marriages, editor conflicts, legal actions after railroad accidents, and business plans for riverboat service between Prarrington and Jackson.
The column argues the Interstate Commerce Bill will curb railroad discrimination, lowering costs for Lincoln county cotton and raising local land values. It forecasts lower profits for executives but broader prosperity, and critiques politicians like Bayard and Cleveland on railroad policy. It also notes the Sword and Shield newspaper in Clinton Mississippi, and reports a fatal bulldozer incident in Franklin county. Gen Grant refused to pay a $150,000 debt.
A detailed preview of the upcoming March inauguration notes competing social intrigue around Blaine and the White House, calls for reform in civil service, and plans for vast public celebrations. It also mentions Blaine family airs and the South’s anticipated large turnout in Washington. The piece ends by noting the Little J Road handling peak freight.
The article notes a cautious 1885 cotton outlook with limited crop expectations, rising prices, and strong export demand amid tighter funding in the South. It also reports on Mrs Myra Clark Gaines dying in New Orleans and a potential settlement of her Supreme Court case, plus World’s Exposition finances and Governor Cleveland’s signature.
The document records Governor Cleveland's resignation from New York, plus various 1886 notes from Aswan and Durant newspapers. It includes temperance positions from Rev. Joan Ellis, Randall's critique of taxation, and local reactions to alcohol removal efforts, with brief mentions of political commentary and medical cures.
An 1880s style notice promotes cures for female ailments and menstrual troubles by Mrs M J Brant and Dr Marter tonics. It also advertises cosmetics warnings and a local drugstore in Memphis Tennessee with testimonials of recovery from consumption.
An antiquated advertisement page lists men’s shoes in sizes 7 and 8 at McGrath’s below factory prices and cheap groceries at Sima’s. It also promotes various patent medicines and perfumery with testimonial snippets and a request for responses to Rev. Josery Inman in New York City.
J Scott the pickpocket linked to a $100 robbery on Dr H F Johanson fled after trial and bond failure. A supposed wife posted $750 bond, Scott fled by train and was later said to have escaped again. The case spurred a Grand Jury indictment for larceny and reports place him boarding a through sleeper to Sioux City Iowa.
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