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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1909
Page
2
Willimantic Connecticut woman Mrs Ezra Donovan shares five years of female trouble suffering. After three doctors failed she found relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the remedy as a standard cure for displacements irregularities backache and related symptoms with many testimonials.
An excerpt from Cham bers' Journal portrays Robert Buchanan as a poet repeatedly beset by money troubles. A friend recalls his generosity and odd habit of paying others’ bills while fleetingly insolvent, and his habit of claiming large debts or sharing winnings with friends.
The article explores crystal growth, noting lifelike repair, suspended growth, and renewal of youth in crystals. It contrasts crystal forces with living beings and mentions historical misconceptions of suspended animation. A second anecdote recounts Rev. Pomfret learning parishioner Elton’s attention was sparked by a remark about Simeon Davis and a lost umbrella.
A lecturer on economy recalls a leading lady story told by her manager. He says the manager entered a dressing room with a large bouquet and whispered the florist sent it with a note. The lady declines to throw it on stage and suggests using the bouquet for the week with an usher delivering it.
A newspaper ad offers a complete Handy Atlas of the World in exchange for the advertisement, the paper name, the reader’s address, and four cents for postage. It cites Scott and Bowne at 69 Pleasant Street New York.
A tale from England recalls a twenty nine year old fiancée who refused to marry until she saved three hundred fifty pounds for clothes and linen. Despite help from a kindly employer she never saved enough, and years passed as the groom waited. Also notes large jungle fowl nests in Australia and large bush turkey nests described by naturalists.
The city of Ispahan, famed as a rendezvous, boasted 173 mosques, 48 colleges, 1 800 caravansaries, and 273 public baths in the early 1700s. Afghans destroyed the canals and baths, erasing waterways and leaving the Meydan square vast yet barren.
An inquiry to the U S forestry service in Washington yields tree lifespans by species. Pine may reach 700 years, silver fir 425, larch 376, red oak 245, aspen 10, birch 200, ash 140, elm 180, heartwood rot begins around 800 in oak, holly specimen 410 near Aschaffenburg Germany.
Dean Rawsay recounts an Edinburgh household where a maid, ordered to report the mistress health each morning, folds in compliments. One day the maid delivers Miss S s compliments and reveals the mistress died last night at night o clock.
The article notes that global rainfall totals 29 000 cubic miles yearly, 6500 cubic miles drain via rivers and carry 5 000 000 000 tons of dissolved solids to the sea. It cites Mississippi river chemistry with 98 469 000 tons of dissolved salts annually as erosion evidence.
The text notes a sanitarium in Java offering daily physician visits and medicaments for patients. Children under ten pay half lodging, with warm baths promoted for reconvalescents and officials. It claims cures for malaria chest complaints and various illnesses and advertises idylic excursions with saddle horses.
Strayed around March 6 a six week old black and white spotted pig. Reward offered for its return. Notify Mrs EH M Lewis Route 6 Carrollton GA.
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