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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1884
Page
3
A long Scots dialect style piece recounts a rural sermon with moral tales of Eve and Adam, Moses, and garden toil. It contrasts Biblical allegory with modern farm life, urging steady work, self reliance, and fair labor while noting regional crop and livestock details and price talk.
A crowded Canal Street Mardi Gras scene erupted into a humorous mix up when a man carrying a baby clashed with a frantic mother who believed her infant had been stolen. After a comic search and misunderstandings, a bystander relieved the tension by returning the child and the mother and man were reconciled, turning the episode into a memorable local joke reported by the Meridian Mercury.
In a conversation with Judge Wiley P Harris, the Mississippi exhibit at the upcoming Work’s Fair should emphasize food crops. He argues Mississippi can produce abundant barley, rye, oats, millet, corn and even wheat in some regions, beyond cotton. He recalls a time when rice was common in every farm.
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