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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1900
Page
4
Miss Alma Johnson remains ill as town notes reflect a busy scene including new West End homes, a large electric transformer project, local business ads from Parsons Moreton Co, vaccination drives, and social visits. The paper lists marriages, pest house smallpox cases, a portrait session, and upcoming stationery and groceries from local stores.
Rob Penn and Miss Johnnie Lee Allen on sick lists while Mrs We Allenes near death. Miss Jessy Tibbs named ariest as Brookhaven residents recall inaugural ceremonies in Jackson. John Case recovering at home after a train accident. Baptist ladies hold prayer meetings nightly. Local merchants and residents noted, including Mr. Hubert ill with asthma and Walter Magee assisting at his store. An advertisement section mentions Youth’s Companion prospectus and patent medicines including Prickly Ash Bitters and Chamberlain’s Pain Balm.
A composite update covers Civil War veterans, family details, church roles, and local governance. It highlights Mr. Bryant’s long service, family, and faith, public notices on smallpox concerns and photography business changes, plus editorial calls for an alphabetized county index and various social events, meetings, and promotions from Magnolia Hotel to military company return.
A promotional note extols Mother's Friend as a safe external liniment aiding pregnancy, easing morning sickness, relaxing muscles, reducing labor pain, improving skin recovery, and enhancing the newborn's vigor. Distributed by The Bradfield Regulator Co. Atlanta GA. Sold at drug stores for $1 a bottle.
Facts span exports of six million dollars and gas engines under construction. London reports seventy thousand professional beggars. Berlin women workers earn thirty cents a dozen for shirts. Venezuela covers vast miles, larger than most European nations except Russia. The bark of the adenn tree yields excellent tanning material. Charlestown Navy Yard plans an immense water basin to connect with Fitchburg railway. New York zoo bans photography with cameras. Austria’s leniency toward murderers noted. Over ten years, 800 murders with 23 executions. space expo delays at Grand Central Palace, New York. British army still flogging. Doris stoker McGeehan jailed at Simonstown for misconduct. The Russia-Turkey war costs tallied. Burns’ Tweed stump noted. Several English auto firms demand nine-month delivery clauses. British empire population quoted at 400 million. A Danish engineer patents a telephone message phonograph using a steel band. Curio shops often stock spurious items. forgers imitate furniture, prints, bronzes, armor, ivory, tapestries. China’s fastest cruiser Hai Tien, 4400 tons, 23.6 knots, could cross Atlantic in 4.5 days. United Prayer for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals advocates at Eton. Belgo-Belgian patent coats windows to prevent frost. American industries showcase refrigerating and pumping machinery, railroads, and water lines in South African mines. Krupp builds light five-centimeter paper field pieces, stronger than steel ones. Russian law fines flax with foreign matter. many Austrians fled to America to avoid conscription. Washington’s west Cascade forest belts large, and Great Salt Lake recedes due to irrigation.
A collage of comic quips and social asides follows. Observers mock fashion-obsessed women and boastful men, with lines from the Philadelphia Press and Cleveland Plain Dealer illustrating tabloid humor. Local notes highlight Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy sales at South Chicago Daily Calumet and sermons near town, ending with Parson, Moreton and Co. offering cheap suits.
A New York Press extract covers a bookworm specimen found in Isaac Methven’s attic and a curious tale of a man chasing “the blues” with a week of guning. It surveys wealthier New Yorkers building country homes in Sussex Pike Orange and Sullivan counties, naming several prominent families and estates.
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Public notice from Lincoln County Mississippi includes intent to prove claims for land titled by Willan Fone and others, with witnesses J. M. Madison Ard and Lishiyette Minster. Administrator’s notice warns debtors to settle accounts and invites claims against estate. a separate citation directs John Knigh to appear before the county court. Also advertised is a well improved 40 acre farm for sale near Brookhaven, with buildings and staged sale details.
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