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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
3
Readers urged to trust Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with open formula and alcohol free extracts. Advocates its use for catarrhal head and throat conditions and weak digestion, warning it cannot cure advanced consumption but may help with related ailments with patient, long term use.
The letter to the Free Press defends alfalfa trials and lime use, citing experiments by William Kinney and Melson at the A and M school. It quotes Chas. B. Wing on lime, drainage, humus, and inoculation, urging large lime applications. Letters from V. Calvin and L. Brown support alfalfa’s potential with proper soil treatment and show promising yields in Georgia experiments.
Shady Grove enjoys pleasant weather with Sunday singing and a well managed school led by Miss Minnie Ward. Local visits occur among Alzena Horton, O J Morgan, Maynard Dyer, Alzada Morgan, Walter Curtis, G L Jackson, R Grizzard, and Dave Allen. Preaching occurs every fourth Sunday and community singing every second Sunday at 2 PM. Dave Allen has moved to P R Jordan’s former home. Also an ad for Preventics candy cold cure tablets notes their use and price at Camp Drug Company.
A sweeping prohibition movement reshapes the South with more than half the region dry and cities remaining as saloon strongholds. States like North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi enact statewide rules while Georgia tests near prohibition laws and Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky, Virginia show rising anti-saloon momentum. Prohibition’s enforcement remains the major hurdle as crime and revenue patterns shift, amid broader political maneuvering in Tennesse and Florida. A distant anecdote about a man named Walker and a Canada to Chicago mare tale closes this mix of fact and local color.
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