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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
6
Local notes describe plans for Bratons Fair with fireworks and entertainment at Hotel Patterson. Mention of night watchman, oystermen, and a call to attend. weather notes and agricultural updates on the 1908 cotton crop and other farm yields.
Announcement urges attendance at the G F A Ry auction led by Deputy Sheriff R L Dear. Lots offer vast goods for merchants and farmers with reduced fare for out of town residents.
The Methodist church will use the courthouse Superior Court room during winter for worship and Sabbath school. In spring a tent may be used if the burned church is rebuilt, with a plan for a large auditorium, Sabbath school room, and a combined space for services, all costing about one hundred cents on the dollar.
A small classified style note advertises a 7 inch (likely a typo) phone number 58 to contact Dixie Steam Laundry for clothes cleaning and pressing services.
Mr and Mrs T E Gurr depart Saturday for Dawson to settle in their future home amid local holiday celebrations.
Citizens respond to a Mase Meeting by organizing an Improvement and Beautify League for Bainbridge. Officers elected are President Mrs. T. E. Garr, Vice President Mrs. W. H. Krause, Secretary Miss Mary Hicks, Treasurer Miss Bertha Nussbaum. About fifty members enroll with annual dues of 25 cents. next week a Constitution and By Laws will be adopted. Mrs. Walter B. Hill of Macon will speak along with Decatur and Miller counties Teachers Institute.
An advertisement touts a remedy that terminates fatally by stopping liver and bone functions. It claims Dr. King’s New Life Pill ends the condition quickly with a money back guarantee and is sold for 25 cents. The message contrasts local Steam Laundry investments with those in the state and urges support for home businesses.
Two lectures on Temperance and allied themes were given in succession. Miss from the National W C I U spoke Thursday at the Presbyterian church and Miss Hollister spoke Sunday at the Court House. Both lectures educated and edified audiences as local unions offered support through President Mrs Albert Russell.
G K Chester ton argues against chasing scientific truths and pokes fun at changing medical dogmas. He warns that doctors and authorities flip recommendations, from pork and port to sea air and garden beds, as new findings emerge.
A missionary cites writings by Kipesz and others to argue that Indian mahouts abuse elephants. He describes a goad and a painful sore on the elephant's brow that forces obedience, noting even gentle elephants suffer to placate cruel drivers. He urges scrutiny when travelers praise mahout affection.
The London Globe notes grapes for table use are grown under glass in Hoeziaert near Brussels. A vast glass landscape supplies amateurs and sightseers, sending hundreds of packed fruit chests every Friday to the United States, with Hoerdiaert supplying markets in London Paris Vienna and beyond.
Dr Edward Everett Hale counseled a New England editor under stress about his wife's illness. He returned to his hotel and wrote enough manuscript pieces to fill the paper for a week, urging the editor to go to his wife instead. The anecdote appears in Woman's Home Companion.
A unique satirical scene sits in South Brent Somersetshire where three oak pews bear carved depictions mocking a Glas tonbury religious dignitary as a fox in robes. The first shows the fox with a crook, the second has geese manacling him, and the third depicts the birds hanging him from a branch.
The London Graphic recalls Damrosch taking a tagged Hebrew friend to Meyerbeer’s opera The Huguenots. He bursts into laughter, saying the contrast of Protestants and Catholics with music by a Jewish composer is entertaining, and he jokes about attending nightly.
Naybor reports seeing your wife hastily leaving home and heading toward the shopping district this morning. Marryat confirms she plans to contract about fifty dollars in debts, noting she likely learned of it after a boast about having that much in the bank.
Fraulein Marie laments a failed wedding as she complains of missing or disappointing presents. Fraulein B and Fraulein A discuss how the couple’s hopes were not met, with playful gossip from Figaro.
A caricaturist quips on hair color, noting a wife turning blond in an hour as a playful measure of change. The exchange contrasts sudden gray in a night with instant blond transformation.
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