Whitesburg Days of Community Happenings and School Plans
Whitesburg reports hosting guests such as Tiss Beck of Bowdon and noting improvements to homes and the school building. The Baptist Revival closed with large congregations, seven new members, and solemn baptisms at Jones Mill. Local officials name new school leaders, plans for desks, and a larger fall attendance, plus a tale on memory techniques by a bookkeeper.
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Baptist Church
Whitesburg
Jones Mill
Mesars W W Richardson
Walter Hines
T E Gilley
Jewell Jones
Eva Copeland
Otia Copeland
Mae Copeland
J H McLeod
Jas Henderson
Waco Texas
Bro Doster
Carrollton
West Java Travelers Guide Describes Sanitarium
A Java book, The West Java Travelers Guide, notes a sanitarium with a resident physician offering daily treatment and medicaments. It states lodge pricing for children under ten and praises convalescent amenities and excursions with horses for visitors.
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Java
West Java
Dreaming of lead turns into fortune for Bristol plumber
Watts, a Bristol plumber, dreamed that repairing a church roof a ladle of molten lead spilled. He found the ground covered in many tiny globules that formed a fortune, and after repeating the experiment he achieved a handsome gain from the unusual outcome.
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Watts
Bristol
Bremen men visit kin and plan seed sales in Whitesburg
Mr Tom Jones of Bremen visits his brother Grady Jones in town. Tom Jones plans to buy cotton seed in Whitesburg this fall for Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. The area now has five seed buyers and the Whitesburg ginnery will add three new gins, boosting its standing in Georgia.
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Whitesburg
Oneta Askew
Inman
Mr Ward
Carrollton
Miss Askew
WS Askew
Tom Jones
Bremen
Grady Jones
Buckeye Cotton Oi Co
Canute’s Down and the Canewdon Church History
Westminster Gazette notes Canewdon in Essex as the site of Canute and the Danes victory over Edmund Tronsides that brought the crown to the Danish leader. It cites Canute naming rising ground Canute’s Down, granting five manors to Sweyn, and founding a church that anchors a rural deanery including Bonthond eight miles south.
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Canute
Canewdon
Essex
England
Edmund Tronsides
Down
Sweyn
Bonthond
Weatminster Gazette
Letter to Cousin Sue Sparks Jealous Exchange
In a brisk exchange a man admits jealousy and asks about a mail letter. The woman reveals it is only a note to Cousin Sue and he resolves to mail it immediately in a quaint, domestic moment.
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George
Sue
Isabel and Baby Play Ground Scene with Musical Rebellion
A scene on the grass before a house shows Isabel two or three times the age of a baby as she acts as mother. A young man asks which is which, and Isabel answers that she is Isabel and the baby is the other.
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Isabel
Prisoner Sings Her Release Amid Cave Standoff
A cave confrontation ends with the bandit chief insisting the opera soprano Mlle Squallina prove her identity by song. After initial resistance she agrees to sing, and the gang aids in escorting her to the village for freedom.
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Mlle
Squallina
The Wife Knew Better
A London Tit-Bits snippet recounts a tale where a wife laments her poetic husband Arthur who writes from Carlsbad praising her picture. She reveals he tucked her mother’s photo into his bag instead of hers before setting off, exposing a humorous misunderstanding.
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Charlotte
Arthur
Carlsbad
London
Not Very Reliable Hog Stories In The General Store
In a rural chat, Uncle Bill Abbott discusses Si Perkins with locals. He doubts calling Perkins a liar, noting Todo’s trick to call hogs to elicit responses during variable feeding times. The talk centers on skeptical town gossip about honesty.
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Anges
Si Perkins
Bill Abbott
Bill
Waal
Uncle Bill
Man’s whisky prank on Lake Shore flier ends oddly
A man rushing from a car behind on a Lake Shore line train exclaims a woman fainted and asks for whisky. Dozens of flasks appear, he takes the largest, drinks, and says it helps him “feel Queer” about a woman fainting.
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Lake Shore
Feathered Creature of Death Terrifies New Gainea
An ancient text describes the rpir n'dooh or bird of death living in New Gainea. Its venom is said to rival the cobra, with no known antidote. A bite reportedly causes severe pain, blindness, mutism, convulsions, paralysis, and certain death.
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New Gainea
Must Be Above All Suspicion Kidney Ailments
Public health claim promotes Foley's Kidney Pills as safe and effective for kidney and bladder ailments. The advertisement asserts no harmful drugs and notes successful testing. Sold by Johnson Brug Co.
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Johnson Brug Co
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Carroll Free Press
Antrd
Georgis
Kelly
Paul F. Brown
Kelly & Brown
EdTons
Paoraletors
Carroll County
Carrollton, Ga
Tiss Beck
Bowdon
Mattie Copes Land
W F Edgeworth
W T Jones
Henry Strickland
Mr Gip Strickland
Bevis
Bevin
Rgroit
J H Lipscomb
Parks
CA Duncan
Atlanta
Hokes
Holloway
Grantville
Wright
Roanoke
Ala
J P Jones, Jr
J D Moore
Birmingham
Thuai Jones
Silas IL
Lamson
John
Teller Firs
National Bank
Kendricks
Mirai
Silas JL
First National Bank
John Lamson
Hiram Kendricks
Mr. Long
Smith
Clark
Brown
Carroll
Ie Lane
Joseph M. Brown
Hoke Smith
Edward H. Walker
Adamson
Beck
A. T. Cobble
G. D. Glas
W. D. Hamrick
G. W. Harpe
J. R. Spence
Superior Court
D. F. Pearce
A. EL Nix
Matt Gri
Csevesse Eereereresirereereseriree
E. C. Johnson Sessreesse
A. Cook
C. B. Pierce
Joseph T. Smith
E. Ty Steed
J. S. Trav
Toz
Death
KODAK
Eastman Kodak Co
Rochester, N. Y
Georgia School of Technology
Ates
Georgia
K. G. Matheson
LL. D
Technical Institute
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