Local Semi-Weekly Leader Brings News and Prices
The Leader announces semi weekly publication with a two dollar annual subscription paid in advance. Editor and proprietor T Hobbs leads the paper.
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1904
Page
2
The Leader announces semi weekly publication with a two dollar annual subscription paid in advance. Editor and proprietor T Hobbs leads the paper.
Young third graders under Mrs. Julia Chrisman collected ten dollars and, with Mr. John E. Seavey guiding them, cleaned and planted shrubs around Confederate graves at Rosehill cemetery. They plan a decoration day to honor the fallen, promoting community patriotism in Brookhaven.
The Arion Concert Company with Albert De Choudron Don Adele Weigel and Mabel Lee Morrison performed at the Opera House Monday. The program pleased some but drew a small audience as Brookhaven often misses concerts and lectures. Encores were scarce and the public library fund benefited little. readers urged donations to Prof. Scott. The issue cites Gov. Vardaman in mob uprisings at Batesville and Meridian, praising his action to save lives and uphold law. The Leader promises renewed editorial vigor and notes the Canton burial of Mrs B Waeh born there, sister to Hon. APlmn.
A Washington letter notes the clash of rules and red tape in federal life, including new congresswomen failing to receive calls, simplification of bills with fewer commas, and Roosevelt’s public display of national colors. It also covers Rosebud Sioux land talks, a churchman who shovels snow in pride, and a switchman killed in Cantom.
In this column fragment, a Philadelphia Press quote discusses how modern rifle blanks may fire real projectiles, with paper bullets and powder causing internal detonation. It also notes fixed furniture trends for space efficiency, shifts in cowboy grazing in Indian Territory, Guatuso mortuary customs, vast North American moose ranges, a Missouri station boarding joke, a legal deadily case, a Chamberlain’s cough remedy endorsement, and a Laurel building completion.
A clipped bundle of old jokes recounts witty exchanges among poets and reporters, with lines about Mr Riley, dressmakers, radium, and humorous mishearings. The fragment preserves light satire across several authored quips from recognizable era humor columns.
Proctor, celebrated as a top Washington storyteller, attended a dinner the night before his death and recounted an anecdote about a distant professor in paythology. The erudite man lectured halfheartedly, leaving the class dazed as he rambled through abstract notions. The professor checked his watch and offered to answer questions, prompting a tense classroom moment culminating in a simple query about the time.
A New York tale relates Governor Van Sant of Minnesota in a hotel room with a trunk full of clothes packed by his wife. A caller asks the governor why he cannot retrieve a suit, and the governor laments whether to buy a new outfit or add trunks. Other humorous exchanges include a senator playfully chastised for feet on a seat and poker tales from a western congressman.
A fragmented ad notes Ayers Pills as a remedy for constipation biliousness dyspepsia and headaches. The copy mentions stomach pains and general health, referencing product use and alleged cures in a period advertisement style.
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