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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
3
The Memphis Commercial Appeal quotes a controversial columnist alleging that a large share of city black residents carry revolvers. The piece suggests mass searches and detentions, arguing negroes should be disarmed and that pistol toters deserve quick action.
A 17 year old grandson killed W. S. Darrington a notable Heardy county notary public and Franklin resident with a shotgun at the family home ten miles from Franklin. The youth fled but was captured the next day and jailed. Funeral attendance included C. J. Darrington and Dave Darrington.
Education in agricultural methods grows with enrollment rising from four thousand to over fourteen thousand in eleven years. The era of farmers shunning book learning seems over as literacy expands among rural students.
An advertisement promotes Foley's Urino Laxative as mild and pleasant tasting, ideal for women and children, claimed to cure constipation and preferred to harsher pills and tablets. Suldg! by Johnson.
The Lyons Progress reports ripe blackberries seen in November in this area. A vine found by Mr. T. L. Jordan of the Farmers Line department and Mr. J. L. Sutton on the new Rachery line yielded real blackberries, though not large, with some green berries noted.
A Nashua Iowa night officer J N Paterson recalls suffering a bad winter cough with lung trouble. He tried several medicines and two doctors before a friend recommended Foley's Honey and Tar which cured him in part and he hails it as the greatest cough and lung medicine in the world. Also notes another shipment of extra wide yard wide silk at 98 cents from A J Baskin Co.
A 1,600 pound monster hog owned by Dan Walker of Tifton is displayed in front of the post office across the street, claimed to be four and a half years old. The report notes Walker as a noted stock raiser who has exhibited several large hogs on the market.
A reader from Ingleside NC reports long illness with indigestion and multiple doctors, spending $20000 on medicines without relief. After using Dr Kings New Life Pills, he claims a full cure for constipation biliousness sick headache stomach liver kidney and bowel troubles, 26 cents at Johnson Drug Co.
Judge Henry H. Revill has been invited by A. & M. College President J. H. Melson to speak on Rally Day in Carrollton Georgia. The event is planned for December 16 in the Fourth Congressional District focusing on Industrial Education with numerous notable signatories and a request for his acceptance.
A Banner Springs Tennessee night watchman, exposed to damp and cold, fell ill with a severe lung cold and could not work. After trying many remedies, Dr King’s New Discovery cured him in one bottle, letting him return to work. Also a reader testifies Foley’s Kidney Remedy cured years of kidney trouble. Johnson Drug Co offers both.
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