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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1904
Page
3
A revised timetable appears for the Illinois Central route with updated rail times. Beane now passes Brookhaven, noting a 1146 p.m. arrival and 10:17 p.m. departure. Travel adjustments affect schedules at key stations including Brookhaven and LG10.
A Brookhaven based column lists hardware ads for G B Perkins and C B Perkins showing wagons stoves and ranges. Notaries publichip for C W Hartington at Brookhaven. Church and funeral notices, missionary rally, and local business and social updates across Lincoln and surrounding counties with names including Mr. George Douglass Rev J P Hemby and Miss Annie Burns.
Theatregoers were promised Murray and Mack with a latest production of An English Daisy, a three month New York Casino hit. The act features a strong cast of fifteen principals and thirty chorus girls, with a setting of Americans in straitened circumstances and a program of thanks to local patrons.
Newton county farmer J J Cooper and his six sons aged 7 to 18 harvested a total of 87,648 pounds of cotton in September and October, with the 16 and 18 year olds contributing 20,000 pounds. The six boys are praised as model workers while a Newton county editor argues against relying on others to pick crops.
County financial ledger items list expenditures and payments to county officials, merchants, and workers. Entries include Foley's Honey and Tar as a listed remedy, various county farm expenses, jail provisions, bridge work, school maintenance, inquest costs, juror and witness fees, court and chancery costs, and travel allowances. Names such as Brown, Osborn, McKay, McGrath, Lewenthal, Abrams, Seavey, Brewer, Hodges, Boadwee, Price Drug Co, Hobbs, Perkins, Stanley, Ratcliff, Buck Case, Allied, Callender, Walden, Magee, Godbold, Summers, Rutland, and Applewhite appear alongside amounts.
The piece explains nerve force in the brain driving bodily motion and lists symptoms of a weak life-current. It promotes Dr Miles Restorative Nervine as fuel to strengthen nerves, increase nerve energy, and restore vitality. The tone mirrors period medical advertising with claims of restoring vigor and nerve power.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a person Natine Ortate at 605 Pepper Ave with mentions of Maicer Bair and Dikuknes in a 1920s style local notice. Readable names appear sparse, but place and names suggest a personal notice or legal brief in a small-town column.
For sale a complete saw mill and planing mill plant offered with a budget of 10 to 20 thousand dollars. Interested parties should apply to A. C. Arrington & Son in Brookhaven Mississippi.
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