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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
2
J H Barron a Carrollton and Bremen area agent offers farm properties near Carrollton and Mandeville with 150 acres and 100+ acres plus town lots and a Newnan Street home. Includes life health accident and fire insurance through Penn Mutual. Also a 150 acre Bremen area farm and a 1 house and lot on Adamson Ave Carrollton.
For sale in Carrollton are several homes and lots including a seven room dwelling near Republic School and Court House with a good water well, barn and outbuildings. Priced at four thousand dollars, three thousand to buy within fifteen days. Also listings on Maple Street and South Street with five room homes and large lots, and a W Muse Jr. property on Die Street. All inquiries to J H Barron, Carrollton, Ga.
Rev W W Roop argues that achievement comes only through effort not wishful thinking. From the blind man's request to Jesus to the labors of statesmen, physicians, and farmers, he stresses that success in any field demands years of study, money, discipline, and persistent toil to gain the promised blessings promised by spiritual teachings.
Hexamethylene tetramine listed as a key ingredient in Foley's Kidney Remedy. Medical texts call it a uric acid solvent and antiseptic for urine. Take Foley's Kidney remedy at first sign of irregularities to avoid serious illness.
The article explains lightning as high tension electric discharge between oppositely charged masses. It describes charging in moisture, cloud interaction with the ground, and the zigzag path of strokes. Photographs reveal the waving discharge and Henry’s work shows alternating current within strokes lasting mere millionths of a second.
An informal note explains terms such as topsy turvy as a drying turf practice meaning top side turf way. It links coxcomb to cock's comb and defines a rich culone fellow as one who values dress over wind. Hurly burly is tied to two local flies in a tale of regional conflict.
A patient, recovering from ether, learns his right hand must be amputated after a terrible accident. The nurse consoles him with humor about learning to cope with his left hand. He laments losing a forefinger string his wife tied to remind him to buy something this morning.
The phrase He’s a brick traces to Plutarch and Spartan wit. Spartans valued brief, sharp speech and action, using concise phrases to express admiration or disapproval. Lycurgus quipped that a city is well fortified with a wall of men, not brick.
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