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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
5
A German paper cites a note from Baroness de Z to cellist Servais inviting him to a banquet reception and ball next Thursday in Brussels. Servais replies that pressing engagements require immediate departure, declining the invitation with regret. He also mentions sending his violoncello as requested.
In a domestic scene Miss Flypp questions Mr Dolley about soaking a watch while Mr Hunker had spoken of such practice. The exchange centers on whether water affects gold and the watch’s mechanism. A separate dispatch reports a fatal shooting near Decatur Alabama where planter George Neville killed a would‑be intruder, a Negro named Colile Minor, as he attempted entry.
Cooperstown July 7 Bishop Henry Potter passed a comfortable night and is improving his recovery now seems certain. Mrs Morse quips about a carpenter and a husband’s praise for a wife’s hammering, revealing a light domestic exchange between spouses.
The piece notes Louis XIV with Colbert promoting lace making in France to challenge Venetian dominance. It describes how Venice barred craftsmen, yet French points de France matched points de Venise. It explains the term points d Angleterre arose after 1662 English ban on foreign lace and smuggling of Brussels laces labeled as points d Angle terre.
A London landlord, facing rent delays from a tenant in a poverty street, confronts him after a halfhearted excuse about work. The tenant quips he could not have attended a cricket match had he not sold the back door for firewood, revealing hard times and a sharp wit.
A 1553 reflection on plain speech over “strange inkhorn terms” urging speakers to avoid overfine or careless language. It argues that some seek outlandish English at the expense of their mother tongue and mocks clerks who claim to speak purely as their language.
Dr. Robertson Nicoll recounts a Reading tale where cryptic bread inscriptions foretold doom and doom turned to theft as a baker used church tombstones for an oven base. A panic grew until investigators traced the clues to St. Giles church and the baker’s motive.
A collection of anecdotes about J A MacNeill Whistler living in Chelsea and a Dublin gallery anecdote. Whistler's peculiarities amused bargemen, a tale of a knock-turn in blue and green, and a baritone reminiscence from the Dublin gallery boys ending with a dramatic cry Unbutton his weekit.
Advert appears to promote Book No 4 for women with confidential medical advice from Dr Shoop Racine Wis. It claims Night Cure using antiseptic suppositories and Pink Pain Tablets to relieve pain in 20 minutes by reducing congestion and blood pressure. Contains price mentions and company name Camp Drug Co.
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