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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
5
A story from Boston Transcript recounts a boy named Johnny asking his father about the meaning of metempsychosis. The father coyly deflects, urging a dictionary search, and the boy later discovers the dictionary open at Met implying the father’s feint. Johnny reflects that his father may be a fraud, in a subtle moral about self education.
The incident occurred when Mr. Gladstone, in his third premiership, searched for his hat after a division. With the rule requiring the speaker to address the chair with hat on, he seized a colleague's hat several sizes too small, causing a memorable, rocking spectacle noted by the London Globe.
An advertisement claims 35 years of sales and satisfied users for L. and M. Paint sold by Roop Hardware Company. It touts zinc oxide and white lead mix, claiming superior wear, coverage, and long-lasting color with repaint intervals of 5 to 10 years.
Four room house available for rent on Rome Street. Apply to Mrs. J. F. Cole or J. Robt. Walker.
The article describes the psychological Break as decisive in baseball, where bench energy, pitcher cues, and crowd reaction surge at key moments. It explains how a single inning shift triggers a dramatic rush of actions from players and managers, culminating in big hits and runs.
A Pearson's Weekly excerpt notes that about 160 poisons are known, with nearly half being chemical rarities. It explains how various poisons affect the brain, respiration, and heart, and cites risks in manufacturing substances like mercuric methide, potassium bichromate, and cyanide of potassium. It also recounts examples of courage and fear from wartime and daily life.
A brisk cyclist travels toward Stratford-on-Avon with a strained look and sweat trickling. A passing youth misinterprets the rider’s haste noting Shakespeare’s house, and the youth calmly reminds him Shakespeare is dead.
Mrs W L Kilpatrick of Danforth Me writes that her mother grew young again after using Electric Bitters for twenty years of dyspepsia. She could not eat drink or sleep before doctors gave up. The remedy revived her health and energy, aiding liver and kidney function and appetite. Johnson Drug Co.
Public school teachers in Carroll County have until September 13 to finish the summer term. This allows time to attend the Teachers Institute scheduled for July 5 to July 9.
We can secure money at 6 percent interest on farm lands and can get funds now, cheaper than in the fall. Contact S. J. Bourne or Title Guaranty Co to place your publication advertisement promptly.
Notice states Jim Parks colored under contract to make crap with me quits his crop without cause and forbids hiring or harboring anyone for the year 1909. The wording reflects an enforcement of non hiring actions across the period.
For sale in town Bremen Georgia two tracts: eleven and a half acres with a good house and barn and a fine one hundred acre farm in good cultivation, located one and one fourth miles west of Bremen. For further information write or see H M Davis Bremen Ga.
J H Barron promotes buying selling and renting real estate with fourteen years in land titles and abstracts. He lists properties for sale or rent and offers life health accident and fire insurance through Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company as district agent seeking liberal contracts.
For sale one house and lot fronting south on Adamson Ave 280 ft long and 220 ft deep with five room house barn out house pasture garden and well. Price 3000 dollars. Also one hundred fifty acre farm northeast of Carrollton on Carrollton and Sand Hill road includes Jno Campbell and B Harris tracts half red buckeye land half gray land four room dwelling two new fenent houses barn and outbuildings original forest and pasture. Price 35 dollars an acre. Titles perfect. One of the pretty desirable homes of Carroll County.
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