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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
4
Local notices list visitors from Atlanta and Athens University spending holidays in Carrollton, many residents preparing for Christmas with shopping at Johnson Drug Co and Thornton Pressing Club. Merchants advertise wares from plows to fancy goods, and readers learn street work progress and a weekly half sheet edition.
The act outlines posted land rules requiring landowners to place two notices forbidding hunting or fishing, creates a land posting register, and sets duties for county officials to maintain records. It details how owners register, the land descriptions required, and a 25 cent fee for registration. Approved August 15, 1903.
Item: a used broad two-horse Studebaker wagon offered by E G Kramer. Suitable for farm or transport use. No further details provided.
Sunday school children plan a Christmas tree celebration at the Methodist and Christian churches likely on Christmas Eve. Preparations are under way with gifts filling the branches and abundant pleasure. Other similar events may be arranged and Santa Claus will visit homes with stockings ready.
An old time medicine advertisement urges readers to use Dr. King's New Life Pills to prevent biliousness malaria and jaundice. It promotes W. E. Johnson's drug store as the place to obtain the remedy.
The text advocates Dr Shoop Restorative as a remedy addressing the root cause of weak stomach, heart, and kidneys by strengthening the controlling inside nerves. It urges testing for rapid, steady improvement and notes druggists promote the preparation, sold by Carts Drug Co.
Notice from P P Kingsbery announces office remaining open until January 1 1909 due to bad weather and many delinquents. All unpaid taxes must be paid by that date without cost of fine. Citizens are advised not to wait until the last day and to govern themselves accordingly.
A humorous instruction requests pressing clothes in a flamboyant Diam am de boo boo style. The phrase combines playful mispronunciation with a theatrical wardrobe flourish and suggests a novelty fashion approach.
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