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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1901
Page
4
The readable fragment references a Wednesday January 23 edition of The Leader with a brief note about ward proceedings and a first Tuesday evening event at a local venue. Names or precise locations are not fully legible. The item appears to be a short community notice in period style.
Official directory snippet lists officials across Lin Coln County including Brookhaven and nearby districts with names such as SpaT-Trookhaven Judge Rowell Wiliams Hogue Chitts and others, mentioning education and supervision roles. The legible fragments show district assignments and local governance names with multiple misspellings typical of OCR.
Village social news and notices from Brookhaven and nearby areas. Mentions visits, guests, church events, and property developments. Reports on local clubs, shop windows, and forthcoming plays. Includes health ads and minor legal notices.
Caseyville sees new residents Tom Newman and Kim Watson moving into town, Miss Cora Applewhite visiting, and local deaths and sympathy offered for Willie Jowhite. Also notes on business changes, such as a grocery stock purchase by H P. Berries and a bakery, plus reports of travel and local marriages, a barn incident, and upcoming school work. Willie Ensley Hughey and Lily Batford wed.
An old-time sales contest promises ten dollars in gold to the customer guessing nearest the total number of cotton thread spools sold between January and June at INO Megrath & Son. The record shows six month sales and a note about closing the guessing book 15 days before the reckoning. Also included are a lengthy note of thanks from Topisaw neighbors after a serious injury and school notices urging punctuality and written excuses.
A compilation notes the mosquitoes in the campaign bite only around sunset to sunrise, discusses Germany’s rising role in industry and finance, US property values in New York, and a wide array of historical curiosities. It mentions New Zealand eggs aiding rodent control, circus-like transport uses in Paris, and a U.S. grocer claimed as the oldest in Weymouth.
Prevention better than cure Tutt's Liver Pills will not only cure but if taken in time will prevent sick headache dyspepsia biliousness malaria constipation jaundice torpid liver and kindred diseases Absolutely cure Tutt's Liver Pills.
Miss Lulah Ragsdale captivated Brookhaven with an eloquent program featuring The type of a faithless woman, a vivid pantomime, and superb singing by Mesdemes Willoughby Johnson Seavey Whitman and Mrs Willoughby. An earlier danger signal kidney cure ad praised C B for sale pricing 60 cents per bottle.
Local notes advertise the DeLeon Comedians at Heuck's Opera House for the coming week, with tickets on sale Friday. Also listed are social visits, store openings, room for rent, and various local notices including a baby show inquiry and medical updates in McComb.
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