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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1884
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR notes show ad notices and instructions for subsequent insertions. The text references Torvars and Advawee with incomplete terms and tariffs, but no clear event, date, or full entity details are readable for a coherent item.
A long advertisement lists discounts at Lehman’s Dryades Street shop in New Orleans. It highlights Black Cashmeres, Lace, Silks, Muslin, Lawns, Nainsook, Indian linens, and numerous fabric types with varied prices. The notice stresses an extensive white goods, dress goods, and upholstery selection with many items priced in cents and dollars.
The long commencement document from Whitworth Female College in June 1884 extols self government through spiritual precepts. It stresses conquering passions, study, and moral law as paths to noble destinies, citing biblical guidance and classical references. The piece also blends discussion of Blaine’s era politics and local civic life with broader reflections on virtue and personal development.
The Menelas Mikas farm two miles south of Brookhaven in Lincoln County covers about sixteen thousand acres of land devoted to pasture and stock, with a ten to twelve acre vineyard and an orchard of diverse fruit trees including Japanese persimmon. The farm features a silk worm nursery, a jute crop of twenty two acres, and test trials of jute processing machinery, including the Angel and Mexista machines, with expectations for further development this summer.
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