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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
5
The whistling groundhog of British Columbia holds a unique role among the Siwash, providing instant food and shaping seasonal activity. Indians use steel traps and iron rods to capture them alive for winter stores, then tan pelts into quilts prized for warmth and easy use as a compass.
A moonlit farewell between two lovers ends with one leaving forever. Six years later the man returns to find his former sweetheart married and changed. At a party they reunite and she cannot recall if it was him or his brother, then jokes that perhaps it was their father.
A woman shoplifter was caught stealing an umbrella valued at $2.50. She paid for the umbrella to avoid prosecution. The next day she asked the manager for a refund of 50 cents after claiming she could buy a similar umbrella elsewhere for 2. The manager silently handed her 50 cents as a tribute to her nerve.
A Chicago Post piece presents a witty exchange where an old man asks if a son can support a wife. The youth quips that two can live nearly as cheaply as one, suggesting the extra cost is minor for the family.
A vivid account describes a giraffe displayed in the Washington Capitol rotunda. The writer notes the giraffe’s graceful posture, nine foot neck and awkward gait, comparing its movements to an ancient lizard with two brains.
A fragment from London Tit-Bits recounts a playful tale of a wife slipping her mother's photo into her husband’s traveling bag. The postal doctors at St Martin’s le Grand humorously repair damaged items and even medicine and coins pass through their hands. A brief Atlanta session notes limited lawmakers, with two local measures approved in Augusta. An ad urges Foley’s Kidney Remedy for kidney and bladder trouble.
A list of area professionals includes Dr J H Powell an ear nose and throat specialist in Atlanta with office hours and a Century Building address, J M L Strickland a dentist in Carrollton, J D Hamrick M D county physician and surgeon and optician services in Carrollton, L J Brock in Stewart Building Carrollton, and Adamson and Jackson lawyers advertising foreign capital loans.
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