Freight Container Bureau engineer advises peach shippers
Mr F C Niff of the Freight Container Bureau visited Peach shippers at multiple Georgia towns to demonstrate crate and bushel basket packing methods. He showed optimal nail counts, bracing, and layer handling to prevent crate failure and bruising, and explained car loading, slack space estimation, and use of center gates or bulkheads to secure loads.
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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's claim on premiere privilege echoes studio snubs
The quoted actor laments repeated rejections and calls out the star's premiere privilege, asserting decades of effort and endless screenings. The piece portrays industry tensions over access to the debut event, highlighting conflicts between performers and studio practices.
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Faye
Commissioners Meeting Regular Session June 2 1925
The June 2 1925 regular meeting of the Commissioners reviewed May minutes and approved Alice D Riley's 1923 tax report. Pauper allowances were set for several residents and adjustments noted. numerous salaries, supplies, and vital statistics costs were approved, with various items and names listed.
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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 Sleepy Upstate Inn
A Charlestonian traveler rests in a lone upstate town hotel run by a multi hat proprietor. He sleeps through until a persistent caller outside demands the 3316 train, and the clerk replies that the train is currently at the station. The tale captures a moment of rail life and local color from the Charleston News and Courier.
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de Stashun
Charleston News and Courier
English tourist told to shoot in Scottish parish
An English traveler staying at a Scottish farmhouse is urged by his landlord to take the gun and shoot. As he walks down a lane with the gun, he meets a boy heading to school who asks what there is to shoot. The boy replies there is a skale malster egmin over the hill.
Critics Take Leave With Speech Purists
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson criticizes modern pronunciation fashions in a London Telegraph excerpt. He favors common forms such as often and agen, opposes long vowels and pedantic rules, and cites 19th century habits like heard. He argues that strictness breeds exceptions and suggests contemporary speech reflects linked toastmaster style.
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Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
London Daily Telegraph
Sir Johnston
Johnston
Boswell
Lichfield
Creatures Man Cannot Tame Across Continents
The article discusses which animals resist taming and which can be domesticated. It notes Tasmanian devils remain wild and die in captivity, black jaguars stay savage, and wolverines threaten trappers by invading shanties and destroying stores. It also covers tamed wolves, big cats, and other felines that can be domesticated when caught young.
Beethoven Overcomes Deafness to Create Masterpieces
The article recalls Beethoven's extreme deafness and his ability to compose sublime works despite losing hearing. It notes his obliviousness to applause on stage, the singer turning him to view the audience, and emphasizes mind over matter as he produced renowned music after losing his sense of hearing.
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Beethoven
Low Country Scene of Flats and Waterways
A vivid fragment evokes flat lands and water scenes with a red barge, windmill or dyke, brimming rivers, red roofs, and a distant horizon. A cow, a broad-breasted woman, a child singing, and a barking dog appear on a clean deck as a barge sails through flowering fields.
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Ruskin
Holland
Alice Meynell
Twelve Rules From Amasa Whitney’s Winchester Mill
A century ago Amasa Whitney ran a Winchester mill with sixteen rules. Notably the roll started ten minutes before sunrise year round. The gates closed ten minutes past sunset from March 20 to September 20 and thirty minutes past eight from September 20 to March 20, with Saturday closing at sunset.
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Amasa Whitney
Winchester
Maas
Good Business Idea From a Kentucky Hardware Store
A Kentucky merchant once sold buggy harness to farmers who paid yearly. A clerk failed to charge promptly and then forgot who to bill. The plan was to charge everyone on the books for a harness and seize it if a customer protested. There were 180 names on the books, and only two objected.
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Kentucky
Question about how doctors treat other doctors
A brief dialogue explores whether a physician treats another physician in the same manner they wish to be treated or in their own distinct method. The humorous exchange centers on the ethics and perceptions of medical care among peers.
Dread of Darkness and Dawn as Healing Forces
The excerpt explores persistent night fears and the relief found in morning. The narrator cites William Lyon Phelps on sleepless worry and argues for sun worship as a rational faith. A childhood memory of a dim room fuels a longing for dawn over evening and night.
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William Lyon Phelps
Scribner's Magazine
Balfight
Roosevelt and the kitten rescue on a Sunday walk
President Theodore Roosevelt found a frightened kitten on a sidewalk. He carried it in his arms for half a block, asked nearby residents about ownership, and offered the animal to a woman and her child on their porch. The moment highlighted Roosevelt’s practical, gentle side during his presidency.
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Roosevelt
Ethel
United States
Elephantine hailstones and their legendary weights
The article notes frequent reports of large hailstones and cites historic claims of extraordinary weights. It mentions six to eight pound stones at Namur in 1719, a Tartary record, a millstone sized block in 1848, a 1100 pound ice block in Hungary in 1802, and a jumbo stone “as big as an elephant” near Seringapatam during Tippoo’s era.
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Namur
Father Hue
Tartary
Tippoo
Mysore
Seringapatam
Personal Responsibility and Interrogation of Earned Bread
A reflective Emerson quote urges self scrutiny in daily life. It calls for refusing unknown foods or fabrics, questioning who bears responsibility for bread earned by communal effort, and daily correction of flagrant wrongs by laying one stone aright.
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Emerson
Robespierre’s Fall Ends Reign of Terror by Guillotine
The ninth Thermidor of year 11 marks July 27, 1794, when the National Convention deposed Robespierre ending the Reign of Terror. The next day the tyrant and 22 allies were executed. an epitaph was written by a contemporary observer.
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National Convention
Robespierre
Timn
Kansas City Times
When Railroad Was New A Bold Eng land Sportsman
A hundred years ago a bold English sportsman invited to a house party describes rail travel in 1828. He recalls instant fear of death from accidents and a lasting headache after a ride where the train seemed to “fly” at 23 miles per hour.
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England
Dog Dye Prince Brings Pink Whiskers to Northboro Dog
A dog named Prince, known for a glossy black coat and beard, visited a chemical dye plant with his owner and returned with pink whiskers after sniffing a pink dye. The incident, reported by the New York World, highlights the curious moment and the dog’s flamboyant appearance.
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Prince
Northboro
Chemical Ant
New York World
Summer Excursion Fares May 15 1925 Central of Georgia
The Central of Georgia Railway offers reduced round trip summer excursion tickets to Lake Mountain and Seashore resorts across the United States and Canada including Mexico City. 60 day circle tours and mixed route options are available with Savannah connections and ocean steamship integrations via Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah or Merchants & Miners. Plan your trip through local agents for schedules, costs, and scenic educational tours.
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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 Remedy Advertised
An ad describes COLD IN THE HEAD as nasal catarrh and promotes L'S CATARRH MEDICINE a two part treatment with an ointment for local use and a tonic acting through the blood to fortify mucous surfaces reducing susceptibility to colds. Distributed by druggists for over forty years by Wy enoy & Co Toledo.
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Ata
Wy.enoy & Co
Toledo
Early Egyptian shaving customs and tools in Herodotus
According to Herodotus the Egy pans shaved continually and only let hair grow in mourning. The barber, known as the hag, used various instruments including a recurved small hatchet shaped razor and knives as common tools.
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Herodotus
Where Two Rivers Meet At Khartoum in Anglo Egyptian Sudan
In Khartoum the White and Blue Niles converge, displaying distinct hues as they flow: one river appears greenish grey, the other clear blue, with flood waters turning chocolate brown from heavy alluvial sediment.
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Khartoum
Sudan
Government tests timepieces for watchmaker certificates
Tests are thorough besides testing all kinds of time pieces, freezing them and baking them in ovens. Our government also takes watches apart and breaks them so that they may be repaired by applicants for watchmakers certificates.
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Iliff
Commissioners
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