Baskin & Baskin Store Talk and Local Notices
Local news highlights sales at Baskin & Baskin with discounts on slippers hats belts and lace curtains. Community notes include visits to Atlanta Villa Rica and Blutton plus a Baptist Sunday school picnic on the Taillapoosa river and an engagement announcement for Miss Nell Mandeville to Mr. Chas Kenyon Henderson. Also a plug for Kodol digestive aid from Tick's Pharmacy.
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Central Baptist Sunday School
Taillapoosa
Baskin & Baskin
Nell Mandeville
Chas. Kenyon Henderson
Newnan
Presbyterian Church
Miss Mandeville
L. C. Mandeville
Henderson
Doctors' Dilemma on Revealing Employee Illness
A London Mail discussion on whether doctors should disclose a patient’s condition in cases affecting public safety. It weighs the duty of confidentiality against the risk of impaired operations and potential legal penalties, noting differing medical, legal, and moral views and historic counsel opinions.
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England
Royal College of Physicians
Edward Clarke
Horace Avery
Justice Hawkins
Lord Brampton
London Mail
Spider foretold frost aiding Dutch defeat in 1794 attack
A French prisoner in Utrecht studied spiders on his cell wall and predicted renewed frost. The forecast helped signal French forces could cross frozen waters, aiding the conquest of the Dutch and the release of Quartermaster Dissonval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
France
Utrecht
Baskin Baskin Millinery and Health Claim Ad
Baskin Baskin markets new ideas in combs belts and summer millinery. Clearances on slippers ribbons and baby caps. An health claim promotes Kodol for stomach indigestion said to ease heart related pains sold by Hamrick's Pharmacy.
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Tick’s
Baskin & Baskin
Hamrick
The Maligned Barber Opinion Piece Analyzed
The Emporia Gazette defends barbers against the stereotype of idle talk. It contrasts low and high class shops, noting quiet work, courtesy, and clean atmosphere in respectable barbering. It argues patrons pursuing conversation may be heard but not debated, and complex social talk is discouraged in better shops.
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Gabriel
The
Gazette
Arber
Emporia Gazette
Englishwoman Relives Luncheon Terrapin Misconception
An English visitor in Washington dined with a senator and missed terrapin, believing a dark fat dish was unsafe to try. Her American friends reveal the dish was actually terrapin, provoking her surprised wish she had sampled it.
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Washington
Capitol
Telephone Girl Takes A Measured Vengeance
A New York Times excerpt recounts a sly prank at a telephone desk where a clerk toys with a jealous co worker. The tale highlights playful scheming and mischief among office staff with the punchline about turning joy to bride into nothin doin.
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Jersey
Mr. Smith
New York Times
Perplexing French Hotel Exchange Teases Language
A French guest recounts a pun filled exchange with a hotel landlord about being square and round. He notes the landlord’s double meaning remarks and jokes about language quirks. The tale ends with the landlord hoping the guest returns soon.
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Carroll Free Press
Carrollton
Georgia
Kelly
Paul F. Brown
Kelly & Brown
Paorrictons
Carroll County
J. P. Askew
Atlanta
Villa Rica
Earnest Thornton
Chas. A. Lyle
Blutton
L. F. Boykin
W. A. Lyle
Shaw
W. &B. Garrity
Wm. Gaston
Mra
Russell Smith
Cleo Sheats
Noel
Roy
Marion Smith
Whitte Smith
Goldthwaite
Texas
Rsc
Atkinson
Terrell
Cowetta
Hewlett Hall
Savanah Press
Hewlett
Griffin News
Defennes
Free Press
Francis Statuary CO
Dept. A
Wellington
Ohio
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