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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1909
Page
4
The Carroll Free Press records noting Paul F. Kelly and the firm Kelly & Brown as epilogs and directors of Epitons and Paor. The item appears as a brief business notice from the local paper.
A jeweler explains how signet rings served practical roles in the Middle Ages as signatures for the illiterate. Nobles bore crests on their rings while merchants used marks and logos. Some European studios preserve seals once worn by founders, bearing ongoing trademarks.
A magistrate questions a clergyman summoned for speeding. The constable claims thirty, the clergyman says eighteen. The magistrate hints at possible reasons for the discrepancy and the clergyman reveals a past marriage with the constable, implying a grudge.
Local social and business items note discounts at Bradley Hyatt and Co. on a ten day sale and a 15 day liberal discount period. Mentions sick lists and visits by Dr. Cheney and Dr. Reese, with a roster of residents and guests from Bremen, Newnan, Rome, and Atlanta along with various community happenings.
List of textbooks adopted for Georgia common schools from 1909 to 1914 includes Readers Graded Literature Wentworth Arithmetic Hyde English Frye Geography Regioner History Agriculture Hutcheson Civics Spelling and Writing primers from various publishers with prices in cents and cloth or board bindings.
A Buffalo Express excerpt describes hair ropes shipped to India used to deter snakes. The rope, made of hair, is laid on the floor around beds to keep snakes at bay, supposedly offering safety inside the rope as if in a steel case. Cowboys in rattler country reportedly sleep inside ellipse-shaped hair rope circles.
A plainspoken parson, famed as England's simplest man, rides an omnibus when a fellow passenger accuses him. He escorts the man home to see his wife, who descends to reveal the parson as the morning joke. The man boasts he was the hugliest chap in England, prompting the astonished cleric’s bewildered reaction.
A Philadelphia Ledger anecdote recalls a boy who, despite a kind question, answers with honesty and haste. The round faced blue eyed child carries a stack of books and prefers honest action over pleasing adults.
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