Irish Work Hand Tricked With Knockabout Oyster Tales
A playful prank at a lumber office involves an Irish employee taking orders during a prank call about knot holes. Separately, Hampton Virginia features a colossal oyster shell hillock, the Chesapeake Bay heap reportedly near two hundred thousand bushels worth about five million oysters, tied to Frank Darling the “King of the Oyster.”
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Ly Golly
Hampton
Chesapeake Bay
Frank Darling
the Ouatermin
First Baptist Church appoints Bass publicity chief 1913
Eldred C Bass named manager Publicity Department for the year 1913 at the First Baptist Church. Reports should be mailed to him early in the week. Glenn Holmes remains chair of the Conveyance Committee. Members urged to cooperate and request church transport on Sabbath mornings.
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Woman's Missionary Society
Eldred C. Bass
First Baptist Church
Glenn Holmes
Holmes
Newnan Business College Opens With Wide Range Courses
The Newnan Business College announces new offerings in bookkeeping shorthand typewriting commercial law business correspondence penmanship and practical mathematics. It promises strong preparation for business careers and quick placement. A cotton grading and exporting class starts April 1 with limited seats and enrollment urged.
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Newnan Business College
Business College
Lydia Pinkham's Compound Promises Avoidance of Surgery
A collection of testimonials extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women's ailments, claiming it saves many from surgery. Letters from readers credit the product with restoring health, easing pain, improving sleep and appetite, and even enabling childbirth.
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Goy
Lydia E. Pinkham
Cary
Maine
Lydia TE. Pinkham
Lydta E.pinkham
Charlotte
N. C
Teven
Mia
Rosa Lis
Wyona St
Charlotte, N.C
Childs Eyes and the Growing Need for Eye Health
An article argues rising spectacles among children reflect eye strain from city life and modern habits. It emphasizes focusing and alignment, near sightedness risks, and urges early screening, outdoor activity, gentler schooling, and proper lighting to protect vision.
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Ivants
Keeping One's Self in Good Repair
S. M. Stanley urges self care as a regular habit comparing health to a watch. We fix a faulty watch immediately but neglect the heart, which costs nothing yet governs life. He notes people monitor time closely but ignore pulse health, risking poorer well being overall.
Modern Use of Some Latin Words
The piece discusses Latin word pronunciation noting Cicero as Kikero and Caesar as Kaisar in English use. It explains both Anglicized and classical readings are correct with the latter common in Latin texts and questions how Cicero would understand modern readings.
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Cicero
Caesar
Explaining Why Ships and Trains Are Called She
The article argues the feminine reference for graceful objects like boats and trains stems from a rule linking grace and gentleness to femininity. It contrasts with masculine pronouns for powerful, sublime objects such as a grizzly bear, where strength and dominance dominate.
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Carroll Free Press
Carrollton, Ga
Ralph Meeks
Epiton
Carrollton
Jesse M. Dodd
Sun Beam
Gideon
Cary, Ne
Fy S. M. Stanley
Baltimore
Myrle Tyrrel
Des Moines
Jowa
By Carl
Kopp
Fitts Drug Store, Inc
J. N. Johnson
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