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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1911
Page
7
The Louisville Courier Journal outlines the sun’s immense heat and light, stating surface temperature around 18 000 degrees F and immense energy each second. It notes a vast scale of solar phenomena, including a 92 000 by 62 000 mile surface hole opened in 1892 and varying rotation rates across its body.
Century Magazine recalls Thackeray’s habit of entertaining boys with dinners and outings. He once dined Herrman Merivale at the Garrick Club and, decades later, recalled the exact meal noting he always served beefsteak and apricot omelet.
Curiosities from school life include misdefined terms like oxygen with eight sides and the meridian as a clock place. Statements claim the cuckoo lays no eggs and a mosquito is a child of black and white parents. The piece notes playful errors and a witty remark about Izaak Walton.
The Bank of England faced runs in its history forcing strategy. In 1745 it used agents to present notes delayed by six fences while cash was drawn and redirected. In 1825 an accidental discovery of 700,000 one pound notes averted a payment stoppage per the London Chronicle.
A Hogland man once believed he was ruined. His sons kept him content as a clerk at seven fifty weekly for twenty years. After his death his estate reached nearly fifteen million dollars.
Emergon defines the gentleman as a man of truth and action, expressing lordship through conduct. The term traces benevolence to good nature, prioritizing manhood before gentleness in ethical bearing.
A Wide World Magazine account details Bororo Indiana customs in marriage. The mother of the bride selects a suitor who must eat a peppered dish, with outcomes depending on the mothers' reactions. If approved, the couple’s engagement deepens after a four day stay. the groom protects the bride from evil influences at night. On the fifth day they rise together and perform the fire ceremony to become husband and wife.
A student actor Jack joins a Sunday class an unnamed father teaches. On the first Sunday Jack claims he did not see who killed Goliath because he was in the back seat, a remark that frames a quiet misperception of the Bible story.
An editor quips with Smiles about ads in his paper, boasting that circulation proves advertising works. A wife lost a bracelet Monday, advertised Tuesday, and found it Wednesday in the dressing table drawer, suggesting the ad helped but the timing matters in this casual tale.
Gilbert and F C Burnand, editors of Punch, traded barbs at a dinner where a clever host split them apart to curb wit. Gilbert kept the room in gales of laughter while Burnand failed to spark similar mirth and muttered that Gilbert tells funny stories for Punch that never appear.
The piece describes a homemade water telescope used by Norway’s fishermen. A tin tunnel six feet long and nine inches wide allows an observer to view through a glass insert weighted by a ring, submerged in clear water to see reportedly many fathoms deep, as noted in Harper's Weekly.
A customer who was billed for an unrequested book wrote a short demand on the receipt. The note, copied from the Hoston Transcript, reads I never ordered this book. If I did you did not send it. If I got it I paid for it, if I didn't I won't.
A tale from Tales and Phases of German Life recounts a U S couple planning marriage in Germany. Birth certificates were elusive for the American bride, solved by a consul affidavit from the mother. The bride then faced requiring the fiancé to declare intent in person, impossible from afar. A solution arose: consul review of love letters and a certificate of sincerity. The ceremony occurred later in England due to travel limits.
An English paper recalls painter Storey as a Royal Academy perspective teacher. At a pupil’s father’s dinner the rich man asks about his son’s progress. Storey, famed for honesty, cannot praise and the man retorts by declaring the boy will be an artist, not fit for anything else.
In a folksy tale from Popular Magazine a visitor asks Sam the old servant to judge which bull pup is prettiest, Miss Bessie's or Miss Mary's. Sam replies that Miss Mary's is the nicer looking, but Miss Bessie insists her pup is prettier than it appears.
A poor London woman sought guidance on her marriage's validity after discovering her so-called husband may have an existing wife. The case centers on a domestic trouble involving possible separation and questions of legality. The fragment hints at clerical or court involvement in resolving the marital status.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a location in Carrollton Georgia and a reference to a freckled childhood and a dated note. The readable portions suggest a local notice or personal caption from a store area S W Cor Square. The passage includes garbled phrases and place names, indicating a damaged fragment from a newspaper page.
Directory style listing of local professionals includes BOYKIN & BOYKIN Attorneys-at-Law Georgia Loman and Trust Co with offices in First Nations Building Carrollton GA, Dr Homer Boatright physician and surgeon with optics, L Z Dorsettt attorney, Dr J H Powell ear nose throat in Atlanta, J E Cramer dentist, R W Adamson lawyer, Adamson & Jackson lawyers offering loans from foreign capitalists, R D Jackson and R E Foster physician, L M Lovvorn dentist, J T Coleman watchmaker and jeweler, real estate services by HAMRICKS and others.
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