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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1883
Page
1
The passage presents a fragmented wartime narrative voice recounting pain fear and endurance. It references a doctor hospital scenes and emotional reflections amid disruption. The speaker recalls prayers and a resolve to persevere despite injury and danger, attributing meaning to small acts of care.
A Times interview reveals widespread candy adulteration using terra alba and cheap sugar. Executives discuss prices from eight and a half to twenty five cents per pound, the profit motive, and the harm to children while stressing white earth as a dangerous additive and urging united industry action.
A late 19th century note argues pressure builds character as pulp becomes strength. praises discipline and endurance while urging readers to guard against dyspepsia and consumption. It prescribes diet, exercise, baths, and climate caution for incipient tuberculosis, and includes brief clipped notices about patents, publishing, and literary figures.
A collage of jocular excerpts from newspapers includes jokes about ballet in the head, balls in society young ladies, jealous brines, dud and dude humor, lawyers joking about dull business, and rain at Coney Island. It also sketches puns about militiamen, a grocer, goose eggs, gossip on church steps, and stray captions.
May Guthrie Tongur, writing in the San Francisco Rescue, denounces temperance hypocrisy and the barroom social ritual of treating. She contrasts the Treater and the Treated, depicting a filthy, decayed man shamed by casual charity while the donor profits from others’ downfall.
The annual report to the State Saloon-keepers Association convention in Quincy denounces all regulation from Harper to Local Option and minors bans. It warns the public that saloon interests refuse any legal measure to curb excesses or fund local government. The hostility to restrictive legislation is deemed uncompromising and will undermine efforts to restrain the liquor traffic.
A London physician cites a simple experiment showing heart rest varies with alcohol use. A Pesth wife advertises a fines-for-drinking pledge. Birmingham opens a Temperance coffee tavern as temperance items cite crime links to drink and women’s roles.
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