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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1883
Page
1
Fragmentary prose depicts a sea side romance in ruins, with characters wandering through memory, ritual, and fading affection. A narrator recalls a shifting bond, the ache of lost love, and a lingering sense of place along the coast.
In a Homestead era reminiscence a crowd hears a yarn about a horse thief, a hangman scenario, and a near-fatal fall at a cliff edge. Old Bill and Jem recount a frontier night with a stranger, a note, and a misidentified killer, ending with reconciliation and a shared drink among the salvaged, after the truth is revealed by the murdered man’s confession.
A Detroit Free Press humorous passage compares Detroit and other great cities with a visiting stranger asking about a five cent barber and local wonders. Water witches in Colorado are described as a trusted diviner for railroad firms, using a forked mulberry twig to locate wells along a new line.
A sweeping panorama of late 19th century dress trends, English styles, and Canadian social scenes. Details on capes, trimmings, silk fabrics, carriage dresses, and basques mix with notes on hair fashions, jockey caps, and carriages. Also included are snippets on English and American society, travel, and observations from a Montreal visit.
A passerby interrupts a lineman atop a pole as lights flicker and fail along Delaware Avenue. The lineman explains frequent finger burns from circuits, near shocks, and a fatal New York death cited as a cautionary tale about handling multiple wires.
The Pal Mall Gazette notes a comical scene where peasants confront officials over new taxes, demanding papers and questioning tax bases such as mustaches eggs and family size. The piece frames such quips as emblematic of historical revolutions and warned extravagances.
A sensational, graphic account likens a bloodsucking mosquito to a factory town in a Lower Mississippi cottonwood thicket. It describes imagined surgical tools and a portable engine in a vivid, demonizing metaphor, concluding with a note about the supposed asylum inmate, Dr. Hans Von Binlow.
The Fiji planters face rising Polynesian labor costs and shortage of workers. Attempts to import Indian coolies failed to satisfy, and the plan now pivots to Chinese labor. Mongolian labor is expected to meet cost and climate endurance needs, despite recent taboos in California and Honolulu.
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