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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1885
Page
3
Raw OCR text shows a closing out sale. Advertisement mentions shoes cheap at C. J. & Bro, and references McCord Shaws and water ground accessories. Nonsensical fragments imply a local merchant sale notice with limited legible details.
Readable notes report church charity quilt display at Askew Bradley & Co. and new office moves by E Grow in the Stewart building. Local events include a Baptist salary payment thanks, a Villa Rica trial outcome for Stone and Embry, and social gatherings with masked young people. Subscriptions and cotton market updates reflect town finances and farming pressures.
Local items report J C Pentecost moved to Jacksonville Alabama with his family. Visitors include Amelia Durham Ellen Jones and Col Beall. Tax day causes grumbling. rains ruin sermons. School board names teachers W R Andrews and Lizzie Hil. Whitesburg to host a laboratory and liver pill maker Dr C N Clark plans to settle. Cross Plains reports sparse wheat sowing and local land sales. several marriages and open schools noted. Buck Creek notes new barn, sugar making, and school openings. several moves, a man’s amputation, and various community updates.
Uncle Jimmie Bell, aged 65, killed a wild gobbler weighing 11 pounds near Stripling's Chapel. He says it is his first wild turkey. The report from Wall notes the event and remarks on the man’s milestone.
.J. W. Wessinger moved from his farm to town. Jas. Thurmin wed Miss Annie Tysinger on the 18th. W. S. Tweeded killed the season’s best pig at 444 pounds net. The Jersey red hogs are praised as the best in the South.
Notes and accounts not paid or satisfactorily arranged by December 1st will be sued at once. Askew Bradley Company urges customers to remember low prices and to give them a trial on all kinds of merchandise.
A damaged OCR fragment lists varied commodities including butter beef dried goods sweet potatoes chickens rags tallow beeswax bacon lard flour salt molasses syrup sugar and leather goods with many unclear words and misspellings.
The Independent is described as a leading religious and literary weekly with broad coverage in religion philosophy science art and literature. It touts its high reputation, varied contributors, and aim to present candor earnestness and tolerance across topics while encouraging readers to engage with contemporary thoughts.
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