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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1904
Page
3
A noisy Brook Haven community notes several Sunday visits from Hazlehurst and Jackson residents. The Opera House attracts crowds as do upcoming baseball games with Jackson and Brookhaven. Local ads promote Wickless Blue Flame stoves and Harris’s College scholarships.
A traveling hypnotist Professor Corby and subject H. Ryder were buried in a grave to prove hypnoism. The box collapsed and dirt rose, nearly suffocating Ryder and injuring his hips. Skepticism grows about hypnotic power and the rescue sparked debate over awakening. Notes from Greenville Times and local notices follow.
Fragmentary OCR reads like guidance on childbirth and support figures with jumbled verse fragments. It mentions a mother, a friend, beauty, weight concerns, joy and uncertainty, rendered in a stray poetic style without clear narrative.
Local items report Barns and daughters listening to Dr Grimbrell in Brookhaven, a Durant bed visit for RK Bell with typhoid, a cabbage curiosity from W W Walden, young Jeft Nichols with a broken leg, and Martin Arnold seeking health westward. Also promotion of Herbine tonic claims to cure a wide range of ailments with a 50 cent bottle sold by Price Drug Co.
Supt Crow of the St. Louis Pinkerton branch met with Hon Thomas Brady special State's attorney and Detective Hoyt to discuss whitecap developments. Hoyt departed for St. Louis. Crow praised the work of his agents. Upon return to Mississippi, Hoyt and his men may target white coppers in Franklin and Amite while safeguarding children with health measures.
Memphis reels after two police officers are killed during a raid on a gambling den. A magistrate's court orders the officers to doom as critics blame the mayor and police for failing to suppress vice. A citizens committee forms to cleanse the city of dens of vice, with Greenville and Brookhaven alarmed and urging vigilance.
A fragment describes a sale of a Jersey calf from Morgantown. The text mentions a pale color and an owner or seller identified as A. Te Fines. It references a place called Crystal Springs and a person or entity named Samad Chaulangue opening up at the market. The legible portion is garbled with several incomplete phrases.
The Brookhaven gathering urged continued effort against blind tigers and gambling, endorsed appointing a ten member committee to study a white primary for municipal offices, and asked the Mayor and Aldermen to advance city ordinances. Speakers defended officers’ duties and planned a Friday meeting to review the primary report.
Cotton fields across Holmes Tate Copiah Lincoln counties face beetle damage mistaken for boll weevil. State entomologist Prof Herrick strengthens quarantine while researchers identify the pest. Farmers seek effective control methods as crop fears grow amid strong community concern. Also notes on Ballard remedies and local notices.
A short notice notes that bad blood manifests as pimples boils muddy complexion headaches backache and a general unwell feeling. It promotes Johnston's Tonic Capsules as a remedy to purify and enrich the blood.
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