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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
6
Local notes list Huylers fresh Candies at Wihis Drug Co and announce Superior Court next month. Various residents visit Montgomery Apalachicola and Bainbridge for schooling, recreation, or business. Shifts include new store plans, telephone upgrades to Amsterdam, and autos rising in county life. Confederate Veterans reorganize with officers named in Bainbridge.
In this city two weeks hence on Friday the 15th voters are invited to attend the joint debate between Roddenbery and Griggs. The event promises full light on the political situation from the two distinguished gentlemen. Everyone is encouraged to come out.
A forceful Sunday sermon by Pastor Smyth at the Methodist church focused on Samson and theDelilahs among social sins with practical parallels. The Bainbridge Coffee and Spice Company plans to start on Broad Street tomorrow with David Cohn as president and M S Fingerhut as secretary treasurer. J D Henck of Baltimore arrives to lead roasting. Fingerhut will tour the Southern trade. Reports say the turkey crop is short with prices rising from 25 to 35–40 cents per pound, averaging about 35 cents, affecting family dinners. cranberry market anxiously awaited.
Registry at University of Georgia lists counts by denomination with Methodists strongest. Revival continues at Baptist church as city notes stomach issues and Jamaica Ginger pee jokes. Local ads promote drugs and claims about opium substitutes and Dr King’s New Life Pills.
Stockson Bonds and family host frequent bridge gatherings at their home. One night after closing, a noise drew the husband below where he joined a late nigh bridge quarrel among servants, deciding the issue only after he realized the players were in his own house.
A Denver Post joke recalls a Vermont lumberman who warned a dentist to stop pulling a tooth if he said so. The dentist misinterpreted Hold on as permission to continue, and the tooth eventually came out. The man coolly learns the dentist’s humorous misunderstanding.
J G Millais notes hare stride about four feet at ease and ten to twelve feet in fear, with ditches twenty to twenty five feet wide claimed by some. Rabbits stride about two feet and can leap six or seven feet. Hares jump five foot walls, swim with head high and hind legs stroking, body part submerged.
The London Graphic argues clothing governs mood and behavior, claiming silk hats and frock coats alienate a man on a farm while flannel attire ruins reverence in church, and that civilization is enslaved by attire with no prospect of freedom.
An old saying from Arab lore links the first grapevine to a sequence of sacrifices by Iblis. He offers a peacock at planting, an ape as sprouts appear, a lion when grapes form, and a pig when ripe, explaining wine drinkers grow proud then crafty then bold and finally foolish.
A Brit ish schoolboy defines a suffragist as a person who creates a disturbance. Another pupil calls surf a form of sea weed growing in the Pacific. In canine essays a pupil says small dogs improve by keeping, and another misdefines the singular of twain as worsted.
A humorous exchange quoted by the New York Telegraph about Scott and his wife expecting a visit from his mother-in-law. The mother-in-law has only visited once in five years, prompting a wry remark that she has not yet got through her first visit.
An interview with a woman is halted when her husband enters and orders silence, revealing restrained remarks and a tense moment captured by a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter.
A short note asks why Daniel was a popular figure in the Old Testament. The answer hints that he was lionized, attributed to his notable status and deeds.
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