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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1899
Page
3
A fragmented reminiscence recounts encounters with senators and figures like Sanders and Shoup, detailing political theater, personal anecdotes, and reactions to early 20th century events. The piece blends memory, travel, and reflections on governance with scenes from a historic Senate setting.
Reports describe a deadly craving among Guatemalan villagers for a bitter mineral-like paste found in clay and earth. The disease, linked to a mysterious plant or mineral, causes pallor, loss of appetite, abdominal swelling, and eventual death, with most cases among young children. Children imitate taste by chewing clay, risking chronic poisoning and fatal outcomes.
A fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century column depicts a man rushing to catch a train while his wife calls for him to fetch plants. The tension turns humorous as the exchange reveals domestic misunderstandings and hurried reactions. The text also strings in brief humorous snippets from other papers and humorous lines about social mores and manners.
Mrs M C Cooper of the Royal Academy in London, famed for modeling busts of English nobility, is in Washington creating busts of noted Americans. She recently completed a bust of Mrs Belva Lockwood now displayed at the Corcoran Art Gallery. In a January 26 letter from Washington she endorses Peruna for catarrh and grippe, praising its quick relief after one bottle. Dr Hartman of Columbus, Ohio offers a free book on health and beauty for women.
A miscellany notes a petition in Sweden requesting suffrage extension signed by 363000 citizens, Samoa demographics with 460 foreigners, and global population estimates by German geographers. It also reports on Catholic and Baptist charity efforts, a new church near Matjes River, and discussions of marriage, gender, and social wit from various humor pieces and items from newspapers.
An unstable vignette mixes a pompous colonel in new clothes with a laughing daughter, then shifts to a parade of ads and health cures. The column glances at dresses, a catarrh cure tout, a prairie hotel invitation, and assorted quips, creating a snapshot of local life and commercial chatter.
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