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Brookhaven Leader

Location

Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America

Date

Jul 16, 1904

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TEXAS LETTER 5 P O Writes on Various Inter Editor Leader

A travel note from Texas and Louisiana recounts heavy rains, grassy cotton, and mixed cultivation. Oliver observes white farmers at work, rampant Johnson grass, and a varied land market with prices from fifteen to twenty dollars an acre. He praises election fairness in Harker County and notes distant views of Decatur. Also reports charters approved by Governor Wardman and local corporate beginnings.

Es Town Texas Fort Worth Brookhaven Jackson Vicksburg Louisiana Soven Kentucky Tennessee Congressman Down Harker County Springtown Decatur Hattiesburg Paul Summe Summe Feta Katie Haining Clarksdale Memphis Morning News Miss Haining

Brookhaven City Officers Announced For Mayor Marshal and Treasurer

The Brookhaven Mississippi city announces candidates for the next election. For Mayor R D Lanier For City Marshal Stanley T Byrd For City Treasurer Charles Heuck. The notice appears among other local items including crimes and regional briefs from Vicksburg and McComb and various Mississippi headlines.

Brookhaven Miss R. D. Lanier Stanley T. Byrd Charles Heuck

Tobacco Heartshown Effect at Annapolis and Local News

About 20 percent of young men recently applying to enter the naval academy failed the physical test due to tobacco use, causing irregular heartbeats. The Lawrence County Press reports on local notes including Water Valley’s experiment station hopes, the death of Dave Stackhouse Fearing at 54, a yellow fever death tally in Natchez, a fatal buckshot ambush near Columb, and the Methodist Orphan’s Home fire at Water Valley with $18,000 loss and $7,500 insurance. Legislation reveals a privilege tax on contractors, with license fees based on city population and project value. Professor Bert E Young is noted.

Naval Academy Yalobusha County Board of Supervisors Water Valley Dave Stackhouse Fearing Raymond A. Benoist Natchez Bert E. Young

Contempt ruling cited. editor fined and jailed in Raleigh

A News and Observer editor in Raleigh was fined $2000 and jailed for contempt. A habeas corpus ruling by Judge Pritchard released the prisoner, holding that speech outside the courtroom is not contempt when not interfering with court proceedings. The piece notes waning sacredism of courts and the right to criticism.

News and Observer Raleigh N. C Raymond Gazette

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