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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
6
A Free Press ad encourages buying or selling through Santa Claus letters. The piece features numerous children’s wish lists from Waco Georgia and Budapest. It invites readers to send the Free Press to distant relatives as Christmas gifts and highlights items like dolls, carriages, toy trains, and candy as requested by young authors.
Harold Braden sends holiday wish list to Santa as family notices recount births and moves around Shiloh, Liberty and Temple. Community updates include open Liberty school, visits among Buchanans, Camp and Whiten families, and local clergy reminders.
Clem notes Miss Eula Duncan hosted Miss Lizzie Mae Duncan of Newnan for the weekend. R C Merrell and family motored to Roopville Sunday. R M Rivers and family visited Atlanta last Wednesday. Silas Traylor and Leo Bailey with families came from Newell Alabama to visit Mrs Wheeler Barker. Opal and Ethel Maynard shopped in Atlanta Tuesday. Messrs Cook and Reese bought new automobiles. Mr J W Webb has been quite active recently.
The column records residents sick at home after visits to Villa Rica and Carrollton. It notes J A Holoway of Bremen and George Jones of Bowdon visiting, Mrs Wheeler Barker recovering, and J A Chambers reporting a good cotton yield from one acre with 230 dollars of cotton and seed valued at 1.50 per bushel, noting he plants only one acre and grows corn and other patches.
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