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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1883
Page
3
Brookhaven reports vary from church notices to fires and weather. Local churches announce services and events. the fire department reorganizes amid recent blazes. court, education, and business updates fill the page alongside social notices and editorial jabs about Brookhaven life.
In a serene town scene on March 20 1883 Miss Mattie Baggett keeps to school while forty scholars attend. Charles Chinaman visits and hints at a bright legal future. Carpenters rush to finish the Methodist church as locals note long logs and a busy W P railway supply chain with train crews ensuring steady lumber movement.
Assessor W D Larkin invites taxpayers to present lists of property at designated times and places on March 26. The notice appears amid advertisements praising Ute Brookhaven Foundry and Machine Shop and the music house of Philip Werlein, with further promotions for McGrath's and Brennan's departments offering hats clothes shoes and lace items.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a mix of old advertisements and notices. It mentions MeGrath dress goods at Brennan's and various merchants, a Shiloh's Cure claim, a portable engine for cash, and notices about subscriptions and local deaths. It also includes race dates, political references, and excerpts about historical figures, with several scattered names and places such as Brookhaven and Jackson, Miss.
Prices for assorted groceries and staples listed with mixed quality grades. Items include flour sugar lard bacon cotton goods and produce with varying rates and measures. Market notes show ranges and unit prices such as 12a 20 for bacon and 45¢ per bushel for potatoes.
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