News of Hollingsworth and Local Social Notes
Weather improves crepes promising after rain while boll weevil threatens cotton crops. Community events include upcoming meetings at Nance Seek Baptist Church with Rev. Melvin Johnson and Rev. F. H. Bennett. Local residents and visitors attend family gatherings, visits, and singing events across Abbiston Jacksonvill e White Plains and Pleasant Ridge with multiple named individuals attending.
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Nance’seek Baptist Church
Melvin Johnson
4. H. Bennett
Jacksonville
Merrellton Social and Church Notices
Miss Myrtle Nixon hosted school pupils with games and porch punch. Protracted meetings begin at Salem and Asbury churches. services invited. Boozer graveyard cleanup scheduled for August 3. relatives urged to attend. Mrs. Margaret Badgett ill. Mrs. J L Green and family hosted visitors from Piedmont, Anniston, and Jacksonville.
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Myrtle Nixon
Lake Junaluska
N.C
Central School of Methods of the
M. EB. Church
South
Asbury Church
Ballard's Snow Liniment Promoted as Poison Antidote
Advertises Ballard's Snow Liniment as a prompt treatment for insect stings and bites with swelling pain and itching. Describes it as antiseptic and healing, available in 25 50 and 100 cent bottles at Scarbrough Drug Co.
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Ballard
Scarbrough Drug Co
Destroying German Observation Balloon in Air Combat
The report describes British planes attacking German observation balloons used as artillery eyes in major WWI battles. A high altitude approach through clouds leads to firing into the hydrogen envelope. Parachutes deploy from observers as the balloon ignites and falls in flames while the aircraft departs victorious.
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Messines
Vimy
Arras
Somme
Revival Services at Meade Church Start July 2
Revival services at Meade church will begin July 2 conducted by Rev J L Doss with assistance from Rev Wyatt. Attendees joined a singing in Sulphur Springs. Mrs Frank Owens and children and Miss Nelle Owens from Greensport visited their sister Mrs W M Doss over the weekend. Miss Ethel Hammond stayed with cousin Miss Lovenia Cain.
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Ethel Hammond
Lovenia Cain
Boston socialite Alice Sargent arraigned in manslaughter case
Miss Alice Sargent a Boston society woman and Harvard professor Charles Sargent's daughter faces arraignment in Westerly for trial on manslaughter charges in the death of twelve year old Cornelius Shea after injuries from an automobile accident. Police allege she drove the car that struck the boy.
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Westerly
R. 1
Alice Sargent
Boston
Charles 8S. Sargent
Harvard University
Cornelius Shea
Miss Sargent
Watch HI
Here
Camera on Barrel Makes Straight Shooting
London July 2 A new patent English invention attaches a small cylindrical camera to the rifle barrel with a telescopic focus. A second trigger fires the camera just before the weapon, capturing a snap shot of the target to show aiming accuracy. Also promotes Herb ine remedy for stomach and liver issues sold by Scarbrough Drug Co.
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London
Scarbrough Drug Co
Squirrel Hunting Season Opens August First In Montgomery
Montgomery July 2 Special. The open hunting season on doves and squirrels will begin August 1. John H Wallace Jr game and fish commissioner warns wardens to enforce laws. Licenceless hunters will be prosecuted and over the limit will be pursued. Wallace notes squirrels have reappeared in long absent areas and birds are plentiful due to law enforcement. He adds that healthier crops will follow fewer insect ravages.
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Montgomery
Wallace
America
Sergeant William Deavey Completes 30 Years in Army
Minneapolis July 24 Sergeant William H Deavey marks thirty years of service in the U S Army. He spent 17 years at the Minneapolis recruiting office and previously served in active duty starting from his enlistment in New York on July 24 1887.
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Uncle Sam
William H. Deavey
Deavey
Minneapolis
New York
Veteran sergeant recalls service under Miles in Dakota and Cuba
The account notes a sergeant who served with the Seventh Cavalry under Gen Miles at Pine Ridge, fought in San Juan and El Caney during the Cuban campaign, helped suppress the Filipino insurrection, and remains one of the oldest enlisted men by years of service.
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Seventh Cavalry
South Dakota
Miles
Pine Ridge
Third Infantry
San Juan
el Caneyn
Deavey
Pinaud
Dept. M
McGees Baby Elixir Promises Relief for Bowel Ailments
An old advertisement touts McGEE'S BABY ELIXIR as a remedy for feverish heat stomach trouble and diarrhea in infants. It claims to reduce fever and looseness with a 50 cent bottle sold through the Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGee
Duces
Drug Co
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This Place
Mrs. S
Love Sunday
Hubert White
White
Pidie
Mrs. Warvey
Mrs. Pink Love
Op &Mth
Asbery Brown
White Plains
Verdie Womack
Robert
Pat Brown
Lewis Brown
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Mr. Weaver
Weaver Station
Mark White
Gordon
Anniston
J. W Harris
Pleasant Ridge
Emma Parker
Merrellton
T. E. Cartledge
Salem Church
H. B. Nixon
Auburn
Conan Stewart
Rome
J. L. Green
Gertie and
Floy Nixon
W. D. Nixon
Emmett Garrett
Piedmont
Margaret Badgett
Bill Cowan
Howard
Frances Morgan
Pecan Gap
Tex
Claude Howard
Meade News
Meade
J. L. Doss
Wyatt
Frank Owens
Nelle Owens
Greensport
Merican Chicle Company
ADAN
Jesse L. Lasky
Moving Picture
Adams
John H. Wallace, Jr
Game
Belgum
Mr. Wallace
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Pinaud Bldg
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