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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
5
A slurred reminiscence from a neighborly call where an old plantation resident recalls Mason Rawson’s language. The speaker notes a claim of control over words and mentions Major Williams and his ill wife, who suffered a dog bite and shaking fits described with local dialect.
A Washington man traveling from his New York business visited Connecticut where he met an eighty year old man. The visitor asked about the area and was told the elder native was born two miles from the place, highlighting a moment of local origin vs. travel. The anecdote appears as reported in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
A loud exchange in a hotel dining room ends with a debtor refusing to repay until money is he paid. A vnergytean and his factotum discuss avoiding calls with evasive replies. At supper a clergyman queries a servant who says he gave an evasive answer after being asked if the reverence was in.
A Texas riverbank encounter reveals a green leafy vine sheltering a nest of umbrella ants. Ants haul leaves from high cottonwood branches to feed their young, creating a living canopy that shields the colony from sun and rain in a surprising display of organized foraging and nesting behavior.
A cursory note recalls an old time figure who admired lofty phrases and admired men bold enough to devise new words. The piece highlights respect for innovation in speech and its playful, antiquated tone.
A tale from Youth's Companion recounts a rural farmer who distrusts higher education and mocks his son Joe for studying languages. Joe, pursuing German and Italian, is teased as impractical while the farmer insists on plain Yankee talk and farm work. The piece ends with the quip that Joe's a warning.
A Baltimore physician prescribes a course of funny stories at meals to a weary businessman. The once solemn man rebels but finally embraces laughter, which lifts his mood and bodily health. The Nashville Tennessean notes laughter as a cheap, effective medicine that breaks mental and physical stagnation.
A London Tatler piece quotes a history exam from a large private school. It notes answers naming Simon de Montfort as founder of a so called mad parliament and Cromwell forming the Tronclads. It also mentions Mortmain trying to stop dead men from bequeathing land to churches.
A dialogue from the New York Weekly features two strangers aboard a train. The first reveals he is selling Professor Blank's book, and the second claims to be the author and agent, noting that the author’s hardest work was writing the book, while the same effort of selling it was the agent’s hardest task.
A London dialogue fragment shows a Coquette admitting boredom and a tiny life hiding a yawn behind a hand while Mr Bagg responds with flustered compliments and a casual remark on the weather. The exchange captures social affectations and humorous misfires in a brief London scene.
A tale features a secret service official noting Greek against Greek in a country fair bargaining scene. A jockey, horse doctor, and a lame mare trick a gentleman, who learns the hoax only after the jockey’s sharp explanation and the doctor’s weary concession about the counterfeit five dollar note.
A Western pastor, urged to increase hospitality, discovers a fair haired Swede in the pew after the evening sermon. He greets her warmly and asks for her address to “get acquainted.” The visitor, a Congregationalist, declines, noting she has a fellow.
An office scene at a major railroad firm ends in a humorous dispute as a green section gang foreman, visiting to claim back wages, refuses to acknowledge the clerk’s computed totals. He quips that he has a pass rather than foot the figures, highlighting payroll banter in a remote division.
A tiny keg planted in the Strait of Magellan serves as a free floating post office. Chains anchor the cask to rocks near Tierra del Fuego, allowing passing ships to retrieve and deposit mail. It has no postmaster and relies on naval protection.
Dr Parr’s dignified retort to a cheeky youth who boasted they could coauthor a very big book. Parr dryly added it would be enormous if it included all that he knows and all that the youth does not know.
Miggles claims truth over poetry in the adage Where there is smoke there is fire. Wiggles questions the claim. Miggles says it was against office rules to smoke. he lit a cigarette and was fired. Pittsburgh Press reports the exchange.
A stranger whispers to a white haired man of the church that the subject has long been prescribing. The old man estimates thirty or forty years, unsure of the exact time, while the stranger expresses pity and notes the man must be nearing the end.
An old anecdote recalls Professor Lord Kelvin at Glasgow University where the Day and a student wrote a verse on the blackboard contrasting Kelvin and his assistant Day. The line reads work while it is yet Day for the knight cometh when no man can work highlighting a playful epigram about timely labor.
A quirky old note describes Morida orange etiquette: sever the fruit at the equator, serve north and south hemispheres on eight plates with a spoon, and carve out zodiac signs while leaving partitions. The text mocks manners and complains that peeling or sectioning is overly troublesome.
An eruption at a quarry and a hospital visit frame a fragmentary tale with Pat McQueer in distress. The piece shifts to a brief history of census origins from Roman times to the first modern U S census in 1790 and 1804 Britain, then to a meditation on sympathy as social capital and its performative nature.
A vintage health note urges lifelong stretching after waking. It prescribes full body moves including sideways head stretches, reaching for the ceiling, standing on tiptoe, and alternating leg and arm stretches. Instructions cover standing and seated positions to loosen hips shoulders and chest, promoting renewed circulation and alertness.
A brief on 17th to 18th century gas experiments from John Claytor and others. It notes 1691 distillation observations and storage in bladders, Dundonale lighting Calrosea hall in 1787, Murdoch’s 1792 to 1798 work at Boulton and Watt Birmingham integrating illuminating gas into factory lighting.
A fragment describes a stranger entering a church in the middle of a sermon, disrupting the gathering. The note is incomplete and lacks additional context or names.
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