This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1900
Page
2
The Leader reports on Buffalo gnats in the Delta, a new Catholic church for Yazoo City, a July 4th Hammond celebration, and fashion notes. It covers rail litigation against Illinois Central, railroad rates to Louisville, Confederate groups funding Jefferson Davis’s monument, political and legal items, shipwrecks, deaths, and a Cincinnati journalism college launch.
Through Mrs. Fannie J. Ricks of Yazoo City the university extends a generous summer program. Instructors will lead courses across disciplines, including teaching methods and the School of Methods. Any college student may accelerate progress toward degrees, with post graduate options and access to libraries and laboratories. No fees are charged. Rooms and board on campus are affordable. For details, contact the Chancellor's Office, University, Miss.
A vigorous protest from Greenville reports the Washington county Democratic executive committee refused to order the primary for delegate selection to the national convention and for presidential electors. The nine of thirteen members adopted a resolution calling the State committee order unconstitutional and urging revival of county action and a reconvened state committee.
Lincoln County Mississippi board minutes record the May 7 1900 regular meeting at Brookhaven with members Parsons Bryant Williams Sasser Walker and others. Items include disallowing Dr Rodwell's smallpox care charges, road inspection notes, a doctor’s certificate on Persenia Rea, hospital and jail expenses, road and commissi0n rules, and a discharge request for county convict Jack Johnson.
A compact Mississippi dispatch reports a range of items: Meridian roof work, duties of Epworth League and Pythian bodies, and public notices. It notes a murder life term near McComb, a bank presidency exception, a planned branch road from Parsons to Grenada, a large 1890 convention reunion, and a drowning incident at Selfhaven College. Also covered are lynch rumors in Liberty, a Pontiac store attack case, and health board actions on osteopathy enforcement.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.