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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
3
Fragmented verse urges patience amid mockery and slander. It argues calm restraint over public railing, noting that calm speech can defuse conflict while rash retorts fuel offense and silence may dampen exaggerated claims. A reflective, old fashioned stance on handling critics.
A captured Chicago and New York tale describes a bank cashier who embezzled bank funds while a partner Brown urged him to steal more. Brown guides the cashier to falsely confess to directors, offering to repay, to save the bank though the plan risks prison. The cashier ends with seven years. Scotland notes on birth rates and gender in Europe follow.
Pearson’s Magazine outlines California’s pest control system led by a state horticulture board, with county inspectors and tree-to-tree checks. The piece highlights scale insects on grapes, fumigation, gas tents, and the import of Australian ladybirds as natural enemies. It also notes strict quarantine to prevent infestations and cites Georgia’s San Jose scale and eurealio pest as examples of varied approaches.
A string of curious settlements is described, from Italy’s cliff towns to New Guinea’s pile-supported houses and a Macedonian promontory called Athos, famed for monasteries and a ban on women. Visitors find a bustling town amid monks, and a legend explains why no women may enter the promontory.
A passage quotes Gilbert Grosvenor on the energizing effect of cold Northwest air on immigrants and Americans, describing a mass of bitterly cold air sweeping from Montana to the Mississippi valley. It lauds meteorology as an American product and notes the U.S. weather service budget of $1.5 million with a large staff of experts observing nationwide conditions.
Princess Louise Augusta of Schleswig Holstein is a royal with a craft. She works as an enamelist, keeps a home filled with jewelry boxes and frames she created, and her notable piece is a memorial enamel for Prince Christian Victor killed in South Africa.
A reader from Malden Massachusetts endorses Peruna after seven months use for nervousness and pelvic weakness caused by overwork and sleeplessness. She credits improved sleep appetite strength and recovery to the remedy and notes continued well being.
Tarkxbl Sedgwick Ark June 10 The case of W 8 Tore Yittieson is viewed as miraculous. His father credits Dodd's Kidney Pills for curing swelling and inability to walk after doctors failed. Thirty-five pills restored health. he could run, dance and sing. Also mentions Kansas City Southern Railway colonies open for settlement and other garbled notices from The Commoner.
A columnist catalogues traits of prominent figures including Brandegee of Connecticut, Robert Hoe, Iwawa Oyama, and Levi P. Morton. Brandegee is praised for courteous, demure conduct toward women. Hoe favors behind the scenes work. Oyama is described as a disciplined soldier-creator of Japan’s army. Morton is depicted smoking cigars in moderation and joking about a ranko odor in his private room.
A Berlin doctor warns against piano use for children under 16 after a study of nervous diseases in 600 of 1,000 girls playing before age 12. The piece recalls 1805 London Surgery Society practices, bleeding as a harmful ritual. It notes poor nourishment affecting brain and teeth, cites Treves and Latham on rare diseases and widespread consumption, estimating 80,000 Londoners with tuberculosis or related deaths.
A German inventor unveils a compact pocket calculator with a nine-key numeric board and a dial to record totals, plus a spring system for tens and hundreds. An improved screwdriver includes a monkey-wrench attachment for removing stubborn screws, enabling high pressure work. The piece also notes Richard Strutt’s claim of a lock designed to last 2000 years amid scattered speculative humor and unrelated curiosities.
Archbishop Moailer of Cincinnati forms a priests choir to render Gregorian music at the funeral of all sees in the archdiocese. Rev Putnam Cady of Amsterdam N J earns Royal Geographical Society fellowship. Jersey City pastor John L Seidler opens the People’s Palace with gym, dance, bowling for about 300000. Mrs Frederick Bushnett of Dennisville N J, 75, remains a long time choir member and leader. Maude Hixson of Indianapolis moves toward an assistant role in Pittsburgh.
A 1905 snapshot reports Japan's specie reserves at 225 million dollars on January 1 after an 11 month war. Berlin runs tree blossom trains for spring viewing. France to test Congo wild coffee cultivation. Ostriches fetch 5000 dollars at Grahamstown. plumage fetches 50 to 62.60 dollars. Manchuria gains from war with 100 million yen disbursed by mid April. Southern Italian beggar children amid scarcity and open air life.
A Chicago Sun quotation contrasts a man’s character with his associations and promotions, through two citizens debating moral reflections about character and the circles one promotes within.
A fragmentary exchange about fear and a bursiar in a room contrasts with remarks on expectations, highlighting suburban garden crops like bilstars as discussed in Detroit Free Press and Chicago Sun pieces.
Vintage advertising copy touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for a wide range of female complaints including ovarian troubles irregularities backache and nervous symptoms. It promises relief from menstrual pain bloating fatigue and other signs of weakness and invites letters to Mrs Pinkham for confidential discussion.
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