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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1903
Page
3
Katherine Pope argues that love of dress corrupts women more than money, urging lighter consumption and simpler wardrobes. She cites vanity, social pressure, and harm to health and motherhood, urging faith in personal style and restraint to avoid costly fashion excesses.
William G Frost argues feuds in the Southern Mountains stem from weak state authority and cultural norms. He notes widespread whisky, vendetta culture, and poor education, praising gradual shifts toward law, education, and potential end to feuds as mountain communities modernize and seek schooling.
The essay argues that clever women, past and present, tend to be unattractive and that society overvalues beauty over intellect. It cites George Eliot as a prime example and contends women of intellect often engage their minds rather than their appearance, contrasting beauty with knowledge.
Idaho man at a Detroit hotel tells of a wild tale about a wife he calls a panther. He recalls a lodge night, her savage assault, and his near-death fear with his brother saving him the year prior.
Excerpts from Mariana Wheeler, longtime superintendent of the New York Babies' hospital, urging gentle handling and regular feeding. She advocates allowing a crying infant to exercise lungs, checking for clothing wrinkles, keeping hands warm, and using light garments to prevent skin creases. The piece stresses maternal influence on a baby's development and cautions against overwrapping.
The piece notes handbag fashion trends from beadse white to black and colored styles, including gilt or silver mounted bags, alligator skins, side clasps, chatelaine designs for business use, and the practical spread of larger bags for easy access to money and cards. The tone mirrors a period fashion column.
Article extols Mexico City as a radiant jewel in the sister republic, describing its setting on a plateau with snowcapped mountains, the Alameda park, Paseo de la Reforma, Chapultepec, and the mix of luxury and poverty. It highlights boulevards, markets, gardens, cultural sites, and the city’s vibrant life and sights.
The article urges diversified farming as best for small capital and limited land. It argues against concentrating on a single product, notes Montana's dairy poultry and hog potential, and highlights labor distribution, local economies, and the aim of stable rural communities. It cites reports from the Montana Experiment Station on agricultural variety and growth.
A simple device described to hold a shock while tied. It uses a broom handle with a section cut off and a hole drilled at one end to secure the tying process, detailing a practical farm implement from an old newspaper item.
A collection of short items on farm efficiency and tools. Advice covers rope and ring setups for holds, simple ant control with sugar plates, and cart wheel reversal to ease unloading. It notes fertilizer expenditures in 1899 and potential cost patterns across farm types, plus a description of a modern potato planter and its effects on farming labor.
A French traveler in Siam observed small gray ants marching in damp places under a riding commander. A large ant carried a smaller gray ant on its back, guiding the colony as the mounted leader rode ahead. Such mounted ants were rare, usually only one per colony, while others advanced on foot.
The newly elected president of the Consolidated and Amalgamated United States Pig Tron company works privately to draft press rules that explain how he rose from obscurity to leadership. An Arkansas man, E. J. Hicks, recounts his long illness and recovery after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, praising their effect and recommending them. A stenographer applicant boasts of perfect spelling and grammar in a humorous quip about language skills.
An assortment of ad like notices and quotations mentions Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents and stops the cough for colds. It also includes snippets from newspapers and a gag about practical poetry and a judge. The piece attributes various lines to Ohio State Journal Toledo Blade Baltimore American and others.
An advertisement extols Peruna as a permanent cure for pelvic catarrh and related nervousness. It features testimonials from Miss Muriel Armitage of Detroit praising its transformative effects after months of use, and directs readers to write to Dr. Hartman for free medical advice at the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
A Skedunk Weekly News editor laments a break in and theft of type and supplies, promising to publish the issue despite the vandalism. The Richardson Echo notes the trouble as a motive unknown, while a Cheinese Daily World anecdote and a railway insult exchange shape the rest of the page.
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