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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1883
Page
1
In a stormy winter tale, a judge known for settling disputes recalls a night when Dr Strong sought him to draft a will for Mrs Norton, a widow with little to leave. He journeys to the old farmhouse, where Norton lies near death, to help secure her last wishes and resolve family tensions tied to John Norton’s heirs.
A long critique of Italian medical practice faulting doctors for abandoning rational care. It alleges pervasive bleeding and restrictive, overheated treatments, misapplied cooling, and dangerous neglect during illnesses. The piece contrasts Florentine doctors with an English physician who advocates airing rooms and early mobility.
An 1885 Brookhaven item recounts a life estate dispute in which a farmer’s wife asserts a life interest and defeats her son John. The narrator recalls a Boston death, and the farm’s stewardship improves after her rival son’s passing, cited from the Journal of Commerce.
The article contrasts hotel gratuities in Britain and the United States, arguing that tips shape service levels. It notes British hotels lack fixed attendance charges, while American hotels offer extensive services at fixed prices, with tipping shaping quality. Anecdotes compare waiters and shop assistants, and a lengthy deer story appears amid the miscellany.
Historic notes describe tiger stealth and silent approach strategies from hunting to river swimming behavior. Accounts recount a tiger retrieving a corpse during a hunt, its clashes with wild dogs and boars, and observations of tiger growth and temperance figures.
A collection of witty clippings from Philadelphia Herald Boston Bulletin Detroit Free Press and Chicago Times cataloging fishing slang family quips and social jests about hens cards peaches and health lore. It sketches light anecdotes and tongue in cheek moments showing everyday humor and small observations across cities.
A magazine writer notes in England 300000 London families pawn small items and over 6000000 pledges go unredeemed yearly. In Paris the Mont de Piete is less used except by those driven to poverty, while pawnshops profit from the lower classes in London amid stark poverty and wealth disparities.
The article argues against the belief that alcohol aids digestion, citing experiments by Dr. Buehner and cases such as St. Martin’s, showing alcohol hinders digestion and harms the stomach. It warns that even small amounts can impair absorption and secretion, and cautions the sick and those with digestives issues from using alcoholic beverages as aids.
Rev Hagan of the Catholic Total Abstinence Association addressed a St Patrick’s Church audience on temperance. He warned of liquor’s reach into poverty and vice, described alcohol as the poison of poisons, and urged Catholics to oppose the drunken traffic harming homes and morals. He cited alarming expenditures on strong drink last month.
A reader visits a Bowery pawnbroker shop in division street to examine hoards of items pledged for loans and explains that most money advanced goes to whisky. The piece links clothing watches and instruments recycled into liquor, citing observers from Albany Journal and temperance notes. It notes high profits for pawnbrokers, misery behind the trade, and warns of liquor’s social harm across cities.
In Chicago a speaker urged temperance, noting a strong drink influence at social events and the rising traffic of alcohol. He appealed to countrymen and attendees at christenings and funerals to forsake drinking and support temperance work, citing firsthand cases of its damage.
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