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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1912
Page
5
A National Magazine excerpt notes that costly hand copied books were prized by collectors and institutions. It cites Cicaro’s famed library and tales of El Homeric parchment hidden between shells, plus monks sourcing scarce parchment for medieval Big Works.
A thoughtful girl questions her widowed mother about having a baby brother. She argues that girls without fathers feel lonely and deserve siblings, exposing child logic that differs from grown up standards.
A garbled dialogue features a witness retelling an oath and a detainee reacting to claims about a man biting another's ear. The text blends courtroom style with stray lines about watching and swearing to events. It closes with a line about old papers for sale at this office.
A New York physician Dr M Sill outlines a daily diet for healthy and malnourished children. The plan includes meals at 7 8 a m 10 a m 1 p m 4 p m and 6 7 p m with milk cereals eggs meat fish vegetables fruits and desserts.
An anecdote shows Geraldine miscommunicating with a younger child on a sidewalk. She tells her grandmother “Margaret got stung, gramma” after tricking a playmate, but both adults struggle to understand the phrase and the child’s meaning. The exchange highlights ongoing language misunderstanding across generations.
A large duck battled a sizable oyster in Maryland waters when the oyster seized the duck with its shell. The struggle ended with the duck drowning as the oyster and three small bivalves clung to its beak, dragging it to near the dock where it was captured.
A woman aged into the title Madam reads a newspaper paragraph and, misled by a comma, questions whether her eyesight is failing. She studies the print again, discovers the comma’s tail, and resolves to visit an oculist rather than thread a needle or risk embarrassment.
A parent describes creative tricks to coax a recovering child to take medicines. Paper cones with penny flags invite exploration, visiting nearby tents, and playful rewards help the child drink beef tea and enjoy hot drinks bought with playful “Joy Money.”
West African natives in French Sudan practice geophagy with clay from intercalated grit layers. Deeper clay is favored leading to crude galleries and fatal collapses. Miners are sometimes buried and rescued due to belief in mine divinities demanding annual victims. Some individuals reportedly consume seven and a half pounds of clay daily.
The text muses on combining personal image with marble busts and changing fashion, noting how modern women might alter styles to avoid unattractive looks. It discusses mirrors failing to reveal unbecoming features and mocks daguerreotype era vanity while condemning troubling trends in how women present themselves.
In 1741 Count Sinxendorf renamed the town once known as Tethlehem to Bethlehem after the Christ birthplace. The log dwelling sheltered people and cattle, and on Christmas Eve Count Rinzendorf led a procession past a partition to a manger where songs were sung. Bethlehem became industrial, diverging from its old religious community, with labor conflicts noted.
The passage notes that discussing weather becomes a social ritual in England and demands careful phrasing. It describes how outsiders may be sensitive if emotions surface and outlines unspoken rules about saying certain things while pretending not to replace weather with any other.
The Crakow trial of Steinfeld exposes how gambling grips Austrian Polard business circles. Dr. Gremtenmaw describes her husband’s routine of hidden early-morning visits to Monte Carlo at Crakow and clandestine card games in hotel bathrooms during summers.
A buoy recovered on a Lerwick beach bears the inscription Passed by J Guthrie San Francisco Tue 1 1905. The Stanley Dollar wrecked off Japan in August 190%, its buoy drifting through oceans until it washed ashore in Scotland. The voyage and route remain a maritime mystery and the buoy is noted as the longest known drift.
A youth named Kabbage, urged by mentor Kaleatick to seize opportunity, reads a newspaper line about Clodvilla Football club needing dates. He replies with a quirky note offering dates in stock at a humorous price, reflecting a whimsical business incident.
The article notes long hair has been condemned as vain by churches for centuries while monarchs and commoners favored elaborate styles. It contrasts with Spartans Cromwellians and Puritans favoring short hair and observes modern trends of hair tossing. Men mostly abandon long hair except for a few musicians painters and other performers who keep it long.
Mrs Susie Tas Fleton of Hooper Nebraska recalls severe female health problems including bearing down pain back weakness and insomnia. After seven bottles her health improves greatly enabling her to work daily and treat boarders again. She permits use of her name to promote the remedy.
The article describes a pulse watch built on a stop principle that indicates heart rate with a single push. A button starts the count and stops at twenty, displaying beats per minute on a dial without mental calculation. A second press resets to the start point for the next measurement.
Judge Jones criticized an advertisement for four pairs of socks and returned them with a terse note that the patterns were vile. The advertiser replied defending the guarantee and urging the wearer to use the socks anyway.
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