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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1898
Page
4
Railroad time table brief notes shows Waser Valley No 24 schedule updates. Mentions SP rate subsections, branch lines, and service changes affecting local trains. Details are terse and partially garbled but indicate timetable revisions and route notes for the Waser Valley area.
The Lin coln County official directory lists local officials and court positions in Brookhaven and surrounding districts. News notes mention visits, business promotions, sodas by Waterman and Lotterhos, post office changes, and community events including a cemetery ice cream festival to fund water works.
Ice deliveries will be available by wagon or at the Brookhaven Ice Works Factory. Tickets are sold at the Factory Office and orders from nearby towns are invited. The public school, church notices, and local births and deaths are noted in this community update with various local names and events.
Brookhaven reports Captain Ewing strict on physicals for townsmen, local notables see oat crops strong, Baptists hold prayer meeting, and Dr. Love moves clinic. City hydrants, a rain revival, and a water analysis by State Chemist Hutchinson confirm Brookhaven drinking water as high quality with low mineral content.
An old style London man with a lantern is praised as a protector versus York City’s modern police. The piece notes times change and efficiency rises across professions including medicine. It extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for curing consumption and other respiratory diseases despite widespread hope.
An old railroad engineer stresses the risks of the job and promotes Dr Miles nerve and liver pills. The page then passages into a memorial obituary for Mary Penweater Ann Hoopes born 1845, detailing family, faith, and death, followed by a note on George S Anderson using Chamberlains Pain Balm for rheumatism and a church leader's convention trip report.
Unclear OCR leaves a garbled note with scattered terms likely referencing a date, place or names but no coherent event or facts emerge for a proper summary. The legible fragments do not establish a clear subject, persons, organizations, or actions.
The Fortinth ann commencement at Whitworth announces Friday activities in primary and preparatory drills, elocution contests, medals, and a sermon by Dr. R. J. Bigham plus a lauded address by M. E. Church South. Brookhaven graded public school closes its term with a program featuring musical selections, recitations, medal and diploma awards, and an address by Attorney General Wylie N. Nash. The Fifth Sunday meeting of Pulr Tiver Asandathim was postponed due to weather and will be held May 2 0 with Monticello church, and the Supreme Court reversed John P. Pore’s case for a new trial.
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