Freight Container Bureau coach teaches peach shippers crate care
Freight Container Bureau engineer F C Niff spoke at peach shipping points in Georgia on crate assembly, nail spacing, and bracing to prevent failures. He demonstrated how six nails at crate ends, eight nails per side, and four nails per end keep sides tight, with top nails eight total. He advised proper car loading, slack take up, and use of center gates or bulkheads, urging careful stowage and even spacing to minimize bruising and loss.
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F. C. Niff
Freight Container Bureau
Vesey Street
New York City
Ft. Valley
Thomaston
Barnesville
Gray
Bradley
Monticello
Griffin
Byron
Tift
Reese
Mort’ce
Sere Freight Container
Orler
F.C. Iliff
Central Terminal Station
Macon
Actress Faye Stars in Premiere of New Picture
Lu silge Blatter recalls working 88 faye as a star in this film and from the projection booth 200 times, now granted the premiere viewing privilege.
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Faye
Commissioners Meeting Regular Session June 2 1925
The June 2 1925 regular meeting of the Commissioners approved May minutes and the final 1923 tax report by Tax Collector Mrs. Alice D Riley. They added pauper allowances for Josiah Mills $4 and Mattie Mills $2, corrected Elisa Mangami, and adjusted Jerry Crawford to $2.00 monthly. Several pauper removals and a long bills list totaling numerous salaries supplies and camp costs were approved.
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Boar
Alice D. Riley
Josiah Mills
Mattie Mills
Elisa Morgan
Elisa Mangami
Jerry Crawford
Jock
Fannie Spillars
al Fehrin
Deck Jones
Ernest. Ivey
B. J Byrd
Cliff Hall
F Helms
J. E Brewer
Jas
L. Burt
Chambers
W. A. Neal
H. P Wallace
J.T Adams
Vita Statistics
H. H Aultman
C. M Lucas
Vital
R .M Jinks
W. F Rogers
Gulf Refing, Co
J E Trussell
T. Peed
M Windham
J W. Brewer
Brookes
Aller
L Saunders
Wood
G. R Rodgers
J. T. Garrett
Hay
Leslie Haywood
Worl
W. Fickling
F. Helms
Salary
Jno
Shockley
Castleberry
Hardage
Behring
Watkins
F.charrell
Wall
A. Daniel Blacksmith
J. B Lunquest
H. S Wall
State Farm
Georgia James
Peebles
Draine
Sheffield Co
Saunders & Sealy
Curtil Co
Roberts & Sons
Helms
R P McGuffin
To the Minute in a Southern Station Hotel
A traveling Charlestonian rests in a small upstate town where trains barely stop. The lone hotel, run by an elderly Black proprietor who serves as all staff, is jolted when a guest asks for the 15 dollar train and is awakened by a squeaky call from outside. The bellhop peers in with the misheard instruction, noting the 3316 train is already at the station.
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de Stashun
Charleston News and Courier
English Tourist Told to Shoot in Scottish Parish
An English tourist staying at a Scottish farmhouse is urged by his landlord to take a gun and shoot. While walking with the firearm down a lane he asks a schoolboy if there is anything to shoot, and the boy points over the hill to a marker or marker-like aim, saying there is a skalemalster egmin over the hill.
Critics Take leave With Speech Purists
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson critiques modern pronunciation and elocution trends in a London Daily Telegraph note. He favors familiar forms like often without the t and agen instead of again, condemns the long my and linked toastmaster style, and cites historical examples to defend traditional speech.
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Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
London Daily Telegraph
Sir Johnston
Johnston
Boswell
Lichfield
Creatures Man Cannot Tame Across Global Beasts
The article surveys wild animals and distinguishes those that can be tamed from those that remain feral. Wolves, including timber wolves, can become docile when caught young, yet Tasmanian devils stay wild and usually die in captivity. Black jaguars and wolverines are noted as especially dangerous. jaguars refuse human contact even as cubs, while wolverines threaten trapper stores by invading shanties.
Beethoven’s Triumph Over Deafness Inspires World
The piece notes Beethoven’s extreme deafness, his inability to hear the applause while performing, and his enduring genius. It highlights how he composed sublime music after losing hearing, creating harmony in the imagination beyond his somber silence.
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Beethoven
Flat lands and a red barge in the Low Country
A Meynell line describes a flat land scenery with a red barge entering flowering fields. Windmills dykes and vast skies frame brimming rivers and red-tiled roofs. A broad-breasted woman tows a barge as a child sings and a dog barks from a clean deck, amid horizon music.
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Ruskin
Holland
Alice Meynell
The Good Old Days Rules At Amasa Whitney’s Winchester Factory
The American Outlook notes Amasa Whitney ran a Winchester factory with sixteen rules. The first requires the roll to start ten minutes before sunrise year round, and gates to close ten minutes after sunset from March 20 to September 20, then thirty minutes past eight from September 20 to March 20, with Saturdays ending at sunset.
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Amasa Whitney
Winchester
Maas
Sticky charges at the Good Hardware store in Kentucky
A clerk at a Kentucky hardware shop faced a faulty memory about customers to bill for a set of buggy harness. With 180 names on the books he planned to charge everyone and reclaim the harness if any objected, but only two customers kicked at the plan.
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Kentucky
Question of Doctors Doctoring Doctors in Own Ways
A witty exchange asks if a doctor edits another doctor in the same manner they wish to be treated or if the doctor performing the act uses their own method. The dialogue plays on the semantics of doctoring and consent in a humorous, morally shaded way.
Dread of Darkness and the Morning Hope
The excerpt questions why fear of darkness lingers and why people wake fearful at 0 45 a m. It cites William Lyon Phelps on the mind’s night torments and favors morning over evening. The speaker, a sun lover, recalls childhood imagery of dim rooms and hopes dawn brings safety rather than dusk.
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William Lyon Phelps
Scribner's Magazine
Balfight
Roosevelt and the kitten rescue on his church walk
President Theodore Roosevelt spotted a kitten on the sidewalk while walking to church. He used his umbrella to capture it, asked bystanders about ownership, and carried the kitten for half a block. A nearby woman and her young daughter agreed to take the kitten, possibly unaware the president had brought it.
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Roosevelt
Ethel
United States
Elephantine hailstone records and giant stones in history
The article recalls historic hail events and oversized stones cited in various eras and places. It notes claims of hailstones weighing up to half a pound and larger reports such as six to eight pounds at Namur in 1719, a millstone sized block in 1848, a 1100 pound ice block in Hungary in 1802, and a jumbo stone near Seringapatam during Tippoo’s era.
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Namur
Father Hue
Tartary
Tippoo
Mysore
Seringapatam
Personal Responsibility and Daily Correction of Wrongs
A reflective passage advocates cautious self scrutiny in daily life. It urges individuals to avoid consuming or using unknown objects and to question the integrity of others. The quote emphasizes earning one's bread through honest effort and contributing to common benefits while addressing flagrant wrongs.
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Emerson
Robespierre’s Fall Ends Reign of Terror in 1794
The Ninth Thermidor of year 11 marks July 27, 1794, when the national convention ousted Robespierre and halted the Reign of Terror. The next day Robespierre and 22 allies were guillotined, with a later epitaph noting that fearing him would have been fatal for the passerby.
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National Convention
Robespierre
Timn
Kansas City Times
When Railroads Were New Bold England Sportsman’s Ride
A hundred years ago a bold English resident accepted an invitation to a five mile rail journey with a house party. In a 1828 letter he recalls the experience as frightful and near instant death, noting the train’s speed of 23 miles per hour and the headache it caused that lingered.
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England
Dog Dye Prince Showcases Vivid Beard in Northboro
A dog named Prince, famed for a glossy black coat and a striking beard, visited a chemical dye plant with his owner and returned with pink whiskers. Report notes the dog’s curious moment as the dye likely touched his face, creating a vivid, prideful look.
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Prince
Northboro
Chemical Ant
New York World
Summer Excursion Fares Offer Reduced Rates to Resorts
Central of Georgia Railway promotes Summer Excursion tickets from May 15 1925 to September 0 1925 for round trips to Lake Mountain and Seashore Resorts across the United States Canada and to Mexico City. Options include via Savannah by ship or rail and sea routes with 60 day Circle Tours eastward.
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Central of Georgia Railway
United States
Canada
Mexico City
Savannah
South Atlantic
Southeastern
Central of Georgia
Ocean Steamship Company of
Merchants & Miners Transportation Company
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Central OF Georgiary
Cold in the Head Nasal Catarrh Treatment Advised
An old advertisement cites Cold in the Head as nasal catarrh from a run down condition. It promotes L S Catarrh Medicine with an ointment for local use and a tonic to strengthen the blood, claimed to reduce vulnerability to colds. Distributed by Wy.enoy & Co. Toledo.
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Ata
Wy.enoy & Co
Toledo
Early Shaving Customs in Ancient Egypt
Herodotus notes the Egy pans shaved continually, growing hair and beards only in mourning. The barber, called the hag, used various tools including a razor resembling a small hatchet with a recurved handle and other knife like implements.
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Herodotus
Where Two Rivers Meet In Khartoum Sudan
In Khartoum, capital of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan, the White and Blue Niles converge. The White Nile runs greenish gray while the Blue Nile is clear and blue, turning chocolate brown during floods from riveralluvial silt.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Government tests watches through timepieces for repair
Tests are thorough aside from teating all kinds of time pieces. They freeze them and bake them in ovens. The government also disassembles watches to assess applicants for watchmakers certificates.
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Iliff
Commissioners
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