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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
6
A LondonAnswers excerpt presents a teacher using a watch as a moral example. She asks how to handle a watch that might not keep correct time and turn to guiding students on careful judgment. A bright boy suggests gifting the watch to a friend.
A magistrate questions a tramp who pursued abuse of a woman on the highway. He denies threatening her life but acknowledges saying she must die. The exchange centers on whether the statement constitutes a threat. The court imposes six months of hard labor.
The piece explains tortoise shell origins from the Indian archipelago and Florida coast. It describes shell anatomy with three blade rows on the back, five plates central, four plates on each side, plus twenty five edge plates called feet or noses. It notes largest turtles yield under fifteen pounds and modern shell comes largely from animal horns.
A Wilkes Barre class joke prompts a student to answer Moses and Jethro with humor. An ambulance driver recalls a non serious case where the trek still did good service by aiding pedestrians and those thrown by horses.
The letter y changes to i after a consonant when adding s or ed, as in money and ponies, while after a vowel no change occurs. The piece cites examples like money bay key toy buy alley attorney chimney ponies journey kidney pulley valley and comments on historic spellings and forms. It notes objections to transforming cy to ia in plural or ed forms, comparing old and modern forms.
A Colonial fragment recalls royal witticisms from George II to George III. Queen Victoria balks at signing a paper, Gladstone insists, and the king’s Windsor wanderings yield quips about court life. The Life of George III notes quips like a chatterbox and snuffbox line.
London Standard recounts how George Grossmith found an autograph in a hotel guest book. Mrs. Alice Shill, famed for whistling, had written I whistle because I must. Grossmith added I sing because I can't creating a witty exchange linked to his recital tour.
A dialogue between Emily Louise and her father discusses how God makes peaches and places the stone inside. The father explains that God makes the stone first and coats the peach outside for our convenience, then answers a follow up about why nuts are enclosed in shells.
While a university student, Bismarck fell for a Tyrolean peasant girl near Ultenthal. He offered marriage and vowed to give up his country to stay with her, but her parents objected to a Protestant Junker marrying their Catholic daughter. The romance ended and he returned to Berlin.
The piece notes the march’s prominence in military music and its twofold purpose to inspire courage and regulate troop movement. It cites the Welsh Harlech march from 1468 and contrasts English dignity with French briskness, including a retort by an Elizabethan soldier about the English march’s slow but far-reaching reach.
A New Yorker on horseback spots a farmer dejected beside a fence with an emaciated litter of pigs. The farmer explains he lost his voice and could no longer call the pigs to feed them, forcing him to use a stick, while woodpeckers torment the animals.
A St Louis police court magistrate uses dry wit with a vagrant claiming to be circulating. A professor famed for memory lapses earns applause at a school opening, while his wife jokes about the audience's cheer.
A memorial notice for Antinet Carroll wife of John W. Carroll laid to rest in Temperence graveyard in November 1907. The obituary honors her faithfulness, caregiving, and eight children with grandchildren and friends mourning. It notes her trust in God, gentle nature, and the family’s grief, closing with a request to remember her in faith. An ad cites heaters priced from $1.25 to $18.00 at Joe Harris'.
A Carrollton advertisement urges customers to contact W. W. Hagan for lathing and plastering services with price quotes by phone 171. The note also promotes Foley’s Kidney Cure from Sord Hamrick’s Pharmacy as a remembered remedy for kidney and bladder troubles.
Notice to members states a two suit per week limit effective immediately with overcoats counting as one suit. Extra charges apply and members are directed to call 238 for details.
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