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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1883
Page
4
A collage of joke snippets and conversational quips appears, including misheard lines about love and loyalty, a riddle about a bed quilt distance, and a joke on piano pronunciation. The brief items recall a bustling 19th century newspaper page of humorous vignettes and reader quips.
A convulsive scene unfolds as a President quotes a State Senator-elect and a chorus of unnamed figures argues over accepting favors from officeholders. Amid farcical interruptions a gavel falls and a secretary notes the rebellion crushed while odd anecdotes, Hungarian customs, and curative advice on sulfur for livestock fill the rest of the fragment.
A fragmentary notice from Canfuru's in Nevada County reports Siobdan Brady recently welcomed a baby boy named Minels Cantona Eapital. The brief text is incomplete, but confirms a new birth in the community and lists the family as connected to Canfuru's.
An extended note on the cottoning moth pest, its larval life, and how it damages fruit. It describes hatching, pinkish larvae, windfalls, and cocoons, with methods to control the pest including banding trees, hanging jars with molasses and water, and spraying with Paris Green. It cites experiments on fruit contact transfer and urges orchard owners to destroy infested fruit and prevent spread.
A long, miscellaneous collection of fruit preserving guidance describes making jams jellies and marmalades from blackberries pears and apples. It covers sugar ratios processing times for jelly and preserves, cooking methods for apple butter and marmalade, and tips on selecting fruit and labeling jars. It also includes brief notes on a railroad project and a comment on women’s clothing from a London newspaper.
A sensational advertisement touts Dr J Bradfield's Female Regulator as a universal cure for numerous illnesses and reproductive concerns. It promises relief without medical examination, claiming to restore health and happiness to homes and restore beauty and vitality to women. It targets women broadly, urging sufferers to try the remedy and claiming widespread success.
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