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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1898
Page
4
Lin Coln County official directory lists court, clerk, and district positions with names and locations. Contains references to Brookhaven Summit Treakhaven and Wesson, plus entries for judges and county officers.
A rain brings welcome relief as Waterman soda water is promoted by Lotterbus and Powell alongside local visits. Brookhaven personalities including Mrs McNulty Barnwell, Mrs Leary, Mrs McLaurin and Mrs Brister appear in social notes. Public notices advertise tornado insurance, Clark-Douglass Debate copies, and local events at Wrights church, Whitworth College, and East Union Mills with brief remarks on residents and visitors.
Local items report Mrs Blanche Thagh arriving from McComb City and a series of community notes. Deputies, church events, births and resignations mingle with town politics, a fatal shooting in a related case, and a large flag raising as crowds cheer the war effort.
The piece envisions unicycles becoming as common as bicycles for short trips and notes broader progress in medicine. It highlights Golden Medical Discovery as a long-trusted remedy for consumption, credited with restoring lung function and curing many previously doomed patients over thirty years.
An old ad from Dr Miles Heart Cure touts a testimonial of relief from heart trouble after years of ineffective remedies. It claims a money back guarantee and offers a free book on heart and nerve cases, with sales through TH Miles Medical.
A meeting of officers of the Second Battalion Third Regiment State Guard in the Mayor's office at city hall discussed offering the entire battalion's services to Governor McLaurin with a full muster as required by the Governor's proclamation. Major Price Porter to notify the Governor.
An ad promises fifty dollars in gold to any man or woman who graduates. The text asserts treatment claims by Hathaway & GC and claims medical cures proved where others failed, urging readers to follow their directions and buy their product. The wording is tangled and repetitive, with several garbled phrases.
A long obituary and notice describe Sister Carola, born Helen Mitchell in Baltimore, who led the St Francis School and Kindergarten at Brookhaven Miss. She is praised as a capable, selfless educator who built up the academy and boarding school project, with plans to convert her Baltimore and Washington properties into cash for the new school. The piece also includes local notices, medical ad endorsements, and public school trustees’ proceedings from Brookhaven.
A Constable sale order issued in Lincoln County Mississippi directs sale at Brookhaven Court House on June 6, 1808 within legal hours. The warrant lists town 6 range 5 and lands impounded as property of the defendant with costs and charges to be paid from proceeds.
The notice describes a public sale by virtue of a writ from the State of Mississippi in LisvoLy County. It references a June 1808 date and the Brock incoin court house door as the sale location. The language is fragmentary but indicates a sheriff or constable sale for property under a court order.
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