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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1922
Page
4
Public health advisory urges timely vaccination against smallpox typhoid and diphtheria as schools reopen. It calls for sanitation in homes and schoolhouses, dental care, tonsil and adenoids assessment, intestinal parasites screening, vision checks, and free State Board of Health testing and guidance.
State Board of Health urges immediate vaccination to curb typhoid deaths in Georgia. Physicians and health officers should promote inoculation, with vaccine provided free if needed. Warns against unsafe public baths and calls for proper pool sanitation and laws regulating public swimming facilities.
Jesse Mercer urges Georgia readers to support law enforcement and refuse to rely on mind reader officers. He explains that federal and state officers depend on tips from informed citizens to uncover bootlegging and other crimes. He emphasizes citizen responsibility, caution about anonymity, and invites tips through the Georgia League, P. O. Box 1802, Atlanta.
Atlanta mourns as a one year old James Johnson dies after drinking from a bottle of soda water later linked to a second child death and a collapsed family scene. Authorities report the bottle contaminated or mislabeled and note broader concerns over unsafe beverages in the home.
Two to three thousand rural Southern Baptist churches will be reached this summer through a cooperative effort by the Baptist Sunday School Board and state boards. More than 160 trained workers join about 200 total, delivering three to four months of rural outreach with Sunday School and B Y P U demonstrations and a religious census in each church. The program aims to demonstrate new methods and collect data to strengthen enlistment work among rural churches.
Raleigh reports say twenty five masked men abducted five Seaboard Air Line workers and one railroad guard at Mindy near Southern Pines. They were severely beaten and believed fatally injured, according to railroad officers receiving the news.
Ford dealer W L Folds announces a vacuum cotton picker will be showcased at the Southeastern Fordson Industrial Tractor Show in Atlanta from August 29 to 31. The machine, powered by a Fordson tractor, uses suction to remove cotton from the plant and deposits it into a bin, also removing seed. Numerous manufacturers will display related agricultural and industrial gear at the event.
The Savannah Press notes scientists believe future generations may live to age a hundred, with people of a few decades hence commonly reaching that milestone as life expectancy rises.
Washington reports educators urge Mr. Mays to curb American movies abroad. They argue Western films mislead eastern audiences about the United States, harm trade, hinder missionary work, and distort perceptions of Americans as licentious and violent, prompting demand to stop libelous export.
The editor of the weekly newspaper details a rustic wedding and auction scene at a farm one mile south of a roses cluster. Wm Smith and Miss Lucy Anderson wed in a public ceremony using hay rope, then depart on a John Deere gang plow trip, with a sale offering a baby buggy kitchen utensils cows mules a yearling and fifty chickens to buyers ten months from date.
For Mayor and Councilmen To The People of Carrollton we announce for re election for the next municipal year subject to the primary when called A K NEAD Mayor M M HALLAM Councilman T W MERRELL Councilman T W MOORE Councilman J P TRAVIS Councilman
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