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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1883
Page
1
A Brookhaven Leader snippet recounts two old bachelors living in a remote home. After a mouse and a rat tap dinner misadventure, they debate sage and onion as sustenance. The tale ends with the bachelors leaving home and never being heard from again.
Elder Boyd, a wary widower in Oldville, is sought by Widow Hayes who plans to marry him for wealth. She lures him with tea and a pie while banking inquiries hint she found a pot of gold. The tale traces scheming, social cunning, and a village romance that ends in betrothal.
A reporter describes a long running milk-cow racket where scalpers separate buyers from profits. Cows sell for about six dollars with a preparatory scheme involving a stripper calf and a second sleuth buyer. The fraud prompts complaints and a cautionary tale from Chicago Tribune observers.
A fragmentary summer tale describes a man on a towpath near a canal being invited to ride a boat by a Scotch family traveling from Port Jervis toward the Pennsylvania coal field. A boy from each party, and the canal boat’s crew, are mentioned amid blurred names and places.
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