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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1901
Page
2
Hobbs publisher promotes a 1.5 dollar bundle offering one year of The Leaves and The Home and Farm with 12 months free. The offer targets new and renewing subscribers and cites Leaves as Lincoln county’s leading home paper and Home and Farm as premier farm and fireside publication.
The Deler James observatory at Millsaps is let to Wells and Wells at an estimated cost near 000. Jesse Walker, one of three Brandon jail escapees, is back in jail in Adams County. Other escapees remain missing. A package 88 28) unidentified in the Jackson Office is credited to Lee County sheriff for back taxes. Charles Harveston’s murder appeal heard at the supreme court, with several weeks more before decision. Governor Longino Offers 0 reward for Fletcher Grady, a ginger-cake colored man, age about 35, wanted for Williams murder in November 1900. The Magnolia Sine Leat Club incorporated in Magnolia for social aims.
A damaged OCR fragment from a historical newspaper piece includes scattered quotes from poets and critics, an advertisement for Smiths Sure Kidney Cure with a testimonial from J H Wiccar of Clarksdale, and references to Chamberlains Cough Remedy and other ads. It also mentions a public school comparison and a Chicago woman speaking on intelligence and defense.
The Laurel Chronicle shifts to semi weekly while Mississippi leads Nebraska in a chess match. Yazoo City eyed for a mattress factory as the Sentinel campaigns for it. Escapes, burglaries, new papers and editors appear across towns. Notable items include a 30 day jail term for two blind tigers, a 400 foot artesian well at the Jackson penitentiary site, and Andrew Carnegie offering up to 85000 for a Jackson public library.
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