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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1898
Page
3
The New York Sun notes Sophie Lyons, a seasoned confidence artist, appears delighted at her latest arrest despite a severe lack of hair fixes. The article recalls Lyons's long history of swindles and frequent detentions.
In 1676 Joseph George Irenes archbishop of Samos sought a London church for Orthodox devotions. He received a ground allotment in Soho from Bishop Compton of London, enabling construction. Compton Street nearby preserves the bishop’s name, with Frith Street also bearing related nomenclature.
The 17th century tale centers on a New York criminal with a long record who is labeled an undesirable visitor at jewel displays. She is arrested entering Trinity church and writes a public letter criticizing Capt. McClusky over reform and fashion. The piece recounts a Greek temple inscription from 1677, funded by Lord James and Bishop Lord Henry Compton, noting its preservation and translation about a nation of the Greeks and royal overseers.
A run of varied notes covers Col John Jacob Astor’s wartime battery funded at 73000 dollars and accepted by the president, bizarre police antics, a stray joke exchange about sharp dealings, a Melos native’s remark, the pope’s menagerie of birds and pelicans, and Irish bids for Celtic gold ornaments returned from the British Museum.
Mississippi counties show varied factory investments and personal valuations, with Madison Itawamba Pike and others reporting manufacturing dollars, personal assessments, poll counts, and state taxes. A killing in Corinth prompts arrest. health notices ban excursions amid yellow fever concerns. crop prospects remain mixed with cotton improving yet affected by pests and rain.
In London Nora confronts Ted Markham over Betty Oakhursts engagement while Betty blushes at a public pairing. Ted plans antipodean travel, revealing finances strain and a past mistake. Nora questions loyalties as chaperones voice disapproval and Betty faces rumored futility of feminine friendship.
Nora Helmsley and Bet Oakherst quarrel over Bet's plan to end her engagement to Ted Markham of the Foreign Office. Betty pushes Nora to tell Ted herself while Nora worries about the fallout and the concert date with Lady Hewitt. Ted arrives for tea as the love triangle tightens its grip.
Across a tale from the Fourth Virginia a goat mascot wanders near Adjutant Yate and friends as a five dollar bet and a playful struggle unfold. A stable boy wrestles the goat to dust under mock combat, inspiring a new five dollar anecdote from Yate.
Milwaukee man Schiffeneder recalled enlistment in Company A of the Wisconsin Volunteers. He served in the Army of the Potomac, fought in the Shenandoah Valley and Gettysburg, was captured at Bell Island and Andersonville, exchanged, and returned with Sherman’s army to Georgia. After hospital and home recuperation he credited Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his appetite and health. He later moved to Chicago as a prominent Grand Army man.
A fragmentary charity scene shows two sisters debating giving aid to the afflicted, with one speaker demanding a fixed sum and threatening discomfort if refused. Mirroring a newspaper taste for dramatic quotes, the piece centers on calls for empathy and a gentlemanly justification of modest charity.
Description of crowds along South Street and the Battery watching a passing warship as whistles salute from all craft. People recall the ship by name, comment on salutes, and drift away after the vessel heads south toward the batteries and beyond.
A fragment from a periodical page recounts a minister’s faltering sermon as a congregation watches. Laughter shifts to sympathy when a misstatement about two blades of grass triggers an embarrassed response. Nearby notes tease a bishop’s blunt humor and a weary man in Indiana forced into sleepless duty, while ads tout remedies and trivial satire clips pepper the column.
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