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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1901
Page
1
Classified snippet names T Howes as editor and proprietor and L A Scarborough as field editor, indicating pay arrangements terms in a vintage newspaper masthead style.
A Mississippi newspaper sale proposes The Leader and The Home and Farm combined for one year at 81.60 with free premiums. The offer targets new and renewing subscribers, praising both papers for strong local news and farm coverage. Also notes salary news for Charles M. Schwab and regional civic items from Vicksburg, Oxford, and Jackson.
Captain WES Hardy argues Mississippi lacks reliable timber data and urges a geological agricultural and timber survey funded by the state. He notes massive pine and hardwood wealth, calls for press support to push lawmakers to adopt surveys, and chides defunct bills while praising press zeal for resource development.
A Southern Farm Gazette note explains meat shrinkage in cooking and storage blamed on moon timing. It suggests meat was killed too soon by about one lunar cycle, affecting fat and water balance and resulting watery meat that cooks away.
The piece discusses letters penned by Charles Dickens preserved by a living Englishwoman. It describes Dickens as a witty, successful matchmaker whose letters illuminate a man’s courtship and inspire a shy suitor. The item notes these letters will be printed in The Saturday Evening Post.
Druggist J. Goldsmith of Van Elle, NCY, reports five years of complete satisfaction with Chamberlains Cough Remedy for coughs and colds in customers and his own family. C. E. Gratton in Simpson County notes a bond issue sale for a courthouse to a Ubiengé firm at twenty year terms, six percent interest, total $20,000. The ad promotes Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets as an elegant physic improving appetite and digestion. Marion Ledger editor Henry and relatives travel to Buffalo for National Editorial Association meeting. An advertising note urges use of Bot LAbLS Tunnels Syrch for coughs and bronchial ailments at 25 cents.
The text recounts various 19th century culture and science items from art collections, portraits, and colonial history to a rising interest in territorial representation and the large banana trade with Jamaica. It notes a New York hotel plans with electric service elevators and heated tables, plus a white oak tree in New Jersey with historic settlement ties.
A varied Mississippi roundup notes Columbus to build a new golf club and a stave and chair factory arrival in two months, Durant forms a business league, the Palmer Orphanage housing 31, and public bonds of 25,000 planned for Jackson schools. Other items cover hail damage, licenses for Blane Mountain College teachers, a syndicate buying Wilson Springs for cannarium uses, and local obituaries and legal notices.
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