30 Sep 1905
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Newspaper
Brookhaven Leader
Location
Brookhaven, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1905
Page
1
Louis Cohn and Bros advertise a wide range of fabrics and garments including Red Seal Ginghams 28 in wide per yard prints domestic broadcloth all wool damask and flannel bedsheets and union suits for children and women in varied colors with prices noted for rips and hosiery, reflecting a busy dry goods sale.
A fragmented catalog shows flour patents including Snow Wreath and Etherial, sacks of flour, bacon, Liverpool salt, cream meal, sugar, Swift's hams and breakfast bacon, coffee, and leaf lard tins. Numerical figures appear next to items, suggesting quantities or prices, though many words are garbled.
Fragmentary catalog item list shows Studebaker farm wagon shafts seats at 38.50, leather top door, Jewel steel range, Deering mower with 44 foot blade, 10 foot steel rake, rotary sewing machine, Blue Grass cane mill No 2. Readable items include names of farm implements and household goods with incomplete descriptions.
Immense assortment of serviceable suits coats and trousers drawn in newest patterns and snappy styles. Men s suits priced at 10 15 20 dollars all wool cheviots worsteds and cassimeres. Youth s suits from 5 to 8 dollars and up to 310.00 for all wool worsteds. Trousers boast handsomest patterns in a broad display.
The notice lists Edwin Clapp men’s shoes in vici and box calf at $5.00 and men’s patent vici Crawford’s styles at $0.00 to bend. It also mentions Utz and Dunn’s ladies shoes priced from $1.50 to $4.00, with various other shoe lines including Avrensi and For ds models.
Silk velvet hats trimmed in latest styles priced at 3 and 3.50, plus $1.50 to $2. To hats, felt and velvet shapes with trims, offered from 1.50 to 2.50. Hack hats in popular felt styles shown for 2.00 to 2.50.
A local store offers to pay railroad fares for customers living up to 25 miles away who spend 25 dollars or more on merchandise across departments including Dry Goods Clothing Shoes Hats Sewing Machines Notions Furniture Vehicles Gents Furnishings Trunks Millinery Shelf Hardware Guns and Musical Instruments. Present receipts from the ticket agent at your station to qualify. wholesale purchases excluded.
The Commoner reprints W J Bryan critique of Rockefeller, judging his methods as corrupting competition and ethics. The excerpt argues Rockefeller prioritizes wealth over conscience, citing bribery and coercion in business as examples. The report also notes a Louisiana case where a recently married white woman received ten years in prison. Kennington of Jackson becomes president of the Mississippi State Exposition.
Mississippi fever updates from Natchez, Vicksburg, Gulfport, and Port Gibson show new cases and deaths as of Sept 27. Natchez reports 72 total cases. Vicksburg notes several deaths. Gulfport and Mississippi City report new cases with no deaths. Port Gibson adds two new cases and refugees depart by special train.
Surgeon Wasdin reports several suspicious fever cases in Scranton with diagnosis tomorrow. Hamburg shows four new cases and one death in the state. Natchez reports nine. Jackson forbids passenger transfers from infected points. Port Gibson records three suspicious cases and no new confirmed cases.
The Attorney General interprets the 1904 law to limit book exchanges to those handled by state county agents and to books adopted for the adoption period ending October 1, 1905. Contractors may not be forced to sell to nonagency dealers or exchange books across grades or subjects beyond same or similar grade exchanges. Bishop Chas. B. Galloway travels to dedicate a new Methodist church in Black Hawk Carroll county with a nostalgic note on his past service there.
A list of graded school books by year includes Empire Writing Books, Southworth Stone Arithmetic, geography, physiology, speller, and mental arithmetic. Other titles mentioned are Weldenhauer, Burkett Stevens Agriculture, and Webster's Primary Dictionary.
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