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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1901
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text mentions train stops and locations such as Orleans and Wesson with times like 725 pm. The garbled content lists many improper nouns, places, and disjointed phrases, indicating a damaged historical page segment without a coherent event to summarize.
Local item list mentions Bryant for cook stores and a Jackson visit, a delivery wagon of a express company ruined, and various goods like glassware and wagons at Bryant's. References to The Cherokee, J. Wo Moey lectures in Jackson, and Hazlehurst Catholic church events. Several ads for wagons, lumber, and medicines appear alongside social notices and church announcements.
In Brookhaven a Copiah county delegation is noted along with local firms like McGrath & Sons and B B Goza drug store. Obituary for Minnie B Williams recalls her life as post master’s daughter, wife and mother with a large bereaved circle. Brookhaven officials inspect waterworks and electric light system amid praise for Hazlehurst Courier.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. It claims the medicine cures catarrh by acting on the blood and the system with internal doses and offers $200 for proof of failure to cure.
Local items list visits by Miss Nellie Robert and Mrs J T L Redding, church events, and social calls. Notes mention Dr. Harry Watts, Conductor Lewis McLaurin, and Mrs K W Purser’s illness. Also advertised are health remedies, church services, and local business updates from Keystone Lumber and Henderson & Turnbaugh.
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