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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
4
The Carroll Free Press serves as the official county organ, publishing public notices, local government updates, and community news for Carroll County residents.
Local merchants including Jackson & Griffin Johnson Drug Co and J.H. Harris promote Groceries toys and fireworks for Christmas. Advertisements urge quick purchases at Carrollton Hardware Stewart Millinery and L.M. Turner for self sharpening plow points and Santa Claus toys. Lost notice near Carrollton Bowden seeks return of fabric. recruiting news mentions U.S. Marine Corps enlistees. Congress adjourns until January first.
Salem community updates include a school suspension for measles illness, Miss Delula Stampa visiting Carrollton for music, Mrs B F Barrett in Heard County, and a church ordination service for Dr T F Connell planned Saturday. Local families hosted visitors, Christmas services and Santa at Joe Harris promising cheaper goods for holiday shoppers.
The notice argues against cheap optical work, urging customers to choose first class service. It quotes R E Bringhurst, a neurologist in Carrollton, Georgia, warning that saving money on eyes leads to regret and emphasizes catering to trade that wants quality.
Christmas season offer highlights a large varied stock suitable for father mother son daughter or sweetheart with useful gifts likely to be appreciated by all ages and genders.
A curious tale of impostor Paralysis used to deceive judges and crowds in prisons. A swindler feigns paralysis to commit theft, is exposed by straw-fire test, and quips of cheating the law out of years. Also a tiny baptism anecdote about a two year old's sponsor moment.
A brown eyed girl asks not to judge the other girl’s looks. She explains that praising or denying beauty would spark gossip and accusations of vanity, since the two resemble each other and others will notice the comparison.
A quoted line from the New York Press portrays a speaker calling another a spiteful envious wretch. The fragment reflects sharp personal vitriol and a claim of irreconcilable sentiment, illustrating a public quarrel or editorial tone.
An aged North Sea skipper rejected life belts and debris aboard his vessel, declaring that sailors must rely on their own duty and unity with the ship. He ridiculed longshore rubbish, smelling salts, eau de cologne, feeding bottles, and fans, insisting gear stays off his decks and crews must stay with the ship.
A French painter visits the Salon with a friend on the selection committee who helped secure acceptance. Near his work the artist exclaims that it is exhibited wrong side up. The reply is hush and the committee had refused it the other way.
The crab lies in wait in a creek with claws extended. A nearby school of killifish may drift by, and one unsuspecting fish travels between the crab’s open claws. The crab snaps its claws shut suddenly, catching the killifish as it passes.
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