Local notices and visits across town
J Q Byrd enjoyed Friday. Claude Pepper visited Deasonville Sunday. Wanted to rent furnished house until May 1. Mrs S C Ray visiting Utica. Susie Powell and Miss Edna Shaw guests. Nathan Pfeifer from New Orleans in town. Various locals: Jackson visitors Clarence Rees, Norfield guests Blake and Geo McCane. Wallace's Circus ads. Perkins Furniture Co. promotes feather goods and beds. carpet samples. From St Louis to Denver on business for Ed Thurber. Springfield items mention Jewish synagogue fundraiser in Lexington and wood sale at Old Brook Farm. Rent offers, sewing machines on sale, and local travel notes. Lincoln County Teachers Association to meet at Gaart House Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Q. Byrd
Claude Pepper
Deasonville
van B. Rees
Paducah
S. C. Ray
Little On
Utica
Susie Powell
J. E. Seavey
McComb
Nathan Pfeifer
New Orleans
Frank Parsons
Clarence Rees
Jackson
Wallace
Mattie Dunning
Perkins Furniture Co
W. F. Frizell
Wallace Bill
Lexington
Old Brook Farm
Singer
Wheeler and Wilsop
Royal
Lincoln County Teachera’| Association
Gaart
M. R. Leary
Brooktmgen
Ocean
Springe
Circus Timepiece Bands and The Wallace Show
A breeze through early 20th century entertainment notes how circus bands dictate acts and timing on the hippodrome, praising the Wallace Show for its precision and popular performances in Brookhaven. Mentions Herbine medicine and local sermons, with brief notices about Miss Neva Newman heading to a training school in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neva Newman
Searritt, Training School
Kansas City
Sale
Sy Ieee
Franklin
Beautiful Thoughts on Motherhood and Beauty
A fragment reflecting on the purity of innocence and health, a mother’s yearning for children, and the ideal of beauty guiding women to nurture gentleness and virtue, invoking a traditional sense of maternal influence and moral influence.
Community Notes From McComb and Brookhaven Visits
McComb Enterprise items report Mr Throckmorton returning from Brown's Wells improved health. Bill Boone and son W. J. Boone visited sister Nannie Walker in McComb. George Leroy of Brookhaven spent time with relatives. Oscar Garver of Brookhaven visited friends in town. Mrs D Melton and son Sam spent Sunday in Brookhaven with parents. E W Boone of Brookhaven recovering and visiting sister Nannie Walker. Snow Liniment praised at J F Lords Drug Store now in Denver, Colo. Notes on constipation and debility mention Pepentines with cautions. Sold by Price Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. M. Stroud
Midlothian
Price 1 Drug Co
McComb
Mr. Throckmorten
Brown's Wells
Bill Boone
W. J. Boone
Brooklaven
Nannie Walker
Geo. Leroy
Brookhaven
Oscar Garver
Sam
D. Melton
J. F. Lord's Drug Store
Denver
Colo
Price Drug Co
Pleasant Reunion Celebrates Sixty Fifth Birthday in Camp Ground
A 1904 Seashore Camp Ground event marks twin sisters Annette Barnes and Jane Downer turning sixty five, hosted by Gus and Mrs. Cooley with their mother, Mrs. Hoover, aged eighty five. The pair, born in Baltimore in 1839, were raised in New Orleans and married Mississippi planters. notes also praise Pain Balm as a quick healing remedy and admire Drs E A and Lamb Rowan in Wesson for their updated offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seashore Camp Ground
Annette KE. Barnes
Columbia
Jane H. Downer
Mt. Olive
8. S. Hoover
Gus Cooley
Chamberlains Remedy and Public Morals in Yazoo
An old column promotes Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy with testimonials from John Hamlett of Eagle Pass and C. Jouunsany merchant. The writeup urges temperance in reporting crime and praises Mississippi’s leadership while cautioning against sensational crime coverage. Readers are urged to visit East Union Lumber Yard for orders and supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Chamberlain’s
John Hamlett
Eagle Pass
Tex
Mabeibe
C. Jouun
East Union Lumber Yard
Ikea
Brookhaven Water Declared Safe By Bacteriologists
University experts report water samples from Brookhaven show nonpathogenic bacteria with no colon bacillus or typhoid organisms detected. Tests included agar media, gelatin plates, and rabbit injections. researchers conclude samples are good potable water despite one colony resembling coli communis. Ballard’s Horehound Syrup advertised amid medical notices and local endorsements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meta
Pio
Trlane
Parietti
Death of Tilden Hudson in Caseyville
Death of Tilden Hudson follows months of illness. He worked for John McGrath & Sons and later A C Seavey & Sons, gaining wide respect. Funeral held in Caseyville with attendees from nearby areas, after a large, sorrowful community tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilden
Hudson
A. B. Middleton
Claude Bowen
Tilden Hudson
N. F. Hudson
Caseyville
Ayers Pills Liver Cure Ad Mocked
Unscrambled ad style copy promotes Ayers Pills as a liver remedy claiming to cure dyspepsia liver issues and related digestive discomfort. The jumbled text hints at headaches poor appetite constipation and bile problems in a period voice.
Dr Miles Anti-Pain Pills Publicized in Patient Testimony
A Salem reader claims Dr Miles Anti-Pain Pills eased 25 years of head, heart, and back pains after failed remedies. The note says the product is sold by druggists with a money-back guarantee if it does not help, at 25 cents a package, from Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E.gratton Drug Co
Thase Rapuliae
Psoas Uuserupes
Miles
Salem
Milles
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Fia
Lincoln County Teachers Meet Date Set at Court House
County Teachers Association invites all Lincoln county teachers to a meeting at the Court House on October 1 at eleven o'clock a.m. for representation and officer elections. A committee to revise the constitution and by laws is named W G Williams T P Scott Miss Mattie Farr. The Brookhaven Public School building hosts the first regular session meeting Friday evening October 28 with program details to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln County
County Association
Court House
W. G. Williams
T. P. Scott
Mattie Farr
Brookhaven
Fea
Hogg
A Boy's Confession Warns Youth of Life of Crime
A boy reports his life of failure from avoiding learning, marrying young, and drifting into graft and prison. The piece frames his tale as a moral lesson about ignorance and unprepared adulthood leading to jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron
SIMILO NOTES Opened at R E Lee and local changes
A late 1901 local update notes the opening of school at R E Lee on October 2 with Miss Mazie Pete as Brookhaven principal, plus several residents moving or resuming studies at Mississippi College. It mentions principal changes at Pleasant Grove, gala rallies at Auburn and Gum Grove church meetings starting November 19, and community concerns including Mrs J K Smith's illness and a sprained wrist case resolved by Snow Liniment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Lee
Maziepete
Brookhaven
Messrs
Thomas
Barney Grice
Clinton
Mississip- Hpi College
Z. Hodges
Hedges
Pleasant Grove
Bula
Clara Grice
Auburn
Church of
Gum Grove
McD. Ferguson
Caseyville
J. K. Smith
Forsythe Place Sale Includes House and Grounds at Brookhaven
Local notice advertises Forsythe property in South Brookhaven a 247 by 252 foot lot with seven room house and barn. Other items reference medical tonics and local residents visiting friends, with scattered names and partial details amid the damaged text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forsythe
South Brookhaven
University of Mississippi offers broad course variety and free tuition
The record notes the University of Mississippi providing courses in Boience, Literature and the arts and professional programs in Law, Engineering, Education, Medicine with tuition free to men and women except for law and medicine. It mentions various departments and facilities though text is garbled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medi Hatiow
ADL Steen Ow
el Traction Toontion
Wewer
Hubsing
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Ilinois Central
Messrs. Blake and
Geo. McCane
Norfield
O. B. Brown
Pearlhaven
R. H. Henry
St. Louis
Perkins
Edna Shaw
Nortfield
Georgia Higdon
Eula Granberry
Tom McNair
Bogue Chitto
Ed. Thurber
J. W. McGrath
Houston Maxwell
Denver, Col
Masonic Temple
R. G. Baley
Wm.abshagen’s
Polos
Heras Family
Nevaros
Molasses
Pheshery
Robt. Selby
Crystal Springs
Whitworth College
Methodist Church
Mr. Selby
C. EB. Grafton Drug Co
E. W. Boone
Nannié Walker
Agency
Cheries
Wesson
Drs. E. A. and
Lamb Rowan
Palace Hotel
Gough
Joseph McEllows
C. B Graften Drag Co
Yazoo Herald
Mississippi
Drs. Metz
Eustis
W. Akedrisk
Valley Mills
Texas
Ballard
Price Drag Co
J. J. Cox
Valley View
W. L. Bowman
Prof
L. W. Bowman
Valparaiso
Drag Go
Wm. Hoskins
FM. Hartman
Oxford
County Teachers’ Association
Raymond Connor
Shelton
Wash
Foley
Tam
Eddie McLaurin
Henry Smith
Canton
McLaurin Ormith
Tallulah
Chicago
A. Sweir, Jr
Vaughan
Uwed
C.J. Bishop
Agnew, Mich
Senate
Moss Knight
Wood
Smithville
Morgantown
Wenger
Jack
Cisco
Bullard
Foles
Caroline Kurd Smith
Gussie Paxton
Smith
Poley
Hugh Swithh
Biomeaven
Wtton Oil
Ginnery
Rancou
Willy
Nathan Kohlman
Lavch Week
Columbia University
New Orleane
New York
In Gish Union Luthor Yard Batore
Boyd
Will Aare Pou
Mim Low
Gellman
Dr. S. Wett Mitchel
Johnston
Michigan Drag Co
Detroit
Mich
Sis Weaver
Prive Orate
Price Deug Company
Glalbipe
University of Mississippi
OLD Buck's
W. P. Hubert
Old
Buck” Masonic Tempie
Oes
Interstate Trust and Banking Company
The
T. H. Perkins Furniture Co
Moodie
Miss
Aguaa
Yislnity
Ocaroe
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