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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1900
Page
3
Rail timetable fragment shows Illinois Central routes with arrivals and departures among cities including New Orleans and Chicago. It lists ships harbors, steamship connections, and station times with partial readable notes and times such as late afternoon and early evening departures.
Local items report visits among residents including M Kelly, Julia Hoskins, Miss Shore Welty, and Miss Nellie White. Mentions of Stoneman's Gallery, a photo gallery, and multiple social calls in McComb City, Brookhaven, Crystal Springs, and New Orleans areas. Also notes on medical tonics, a subletting sewerage contract, wedding of J B (Ed) Rous to Lollie Mitchell, and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised for croup prevention.
A January 16 1890 update surveys the army liquor ban and a new bill to prohibit alcohol sales in post exchanges or canteens. It covers a proposed 2 percent clerks pension fund, bankruptcy law repeal arguments, Max Krebs the Cutter case, a Chicago Drainage Canal pollution study, and Cadmus notice with Mrs Priebatsch invitation.
Governor urges legislature to allow families of lynching victims to sue for fixed damages in chancery court and to approve vacancies of sheriffs when prisoners are mobbed. He also recommends convict farming in the delta, county row commissioners to oversee roads, and a constitutional amendment for fair primary voting and school funding. He cautions against race-based school funding changes and emphasizes education for all races.
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