All Clothing and Straw Hats Reduced by a Quarter
A local sale advertises 25 percent reductions on all clothing and all straw hats with 35 cent belt pins included in the offer.
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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1910
Page
5
Exterminate the Flies Advice From City Experts
A Kansas City Times excerpt urges early fly control using cleanliness and deterrents. Dr Albert Florian notes flies breed in trash and avoid certain scents such as honeysuckle, while city chemist Walter Cross endorses carbolic acid vapors and other methods to reduce indoor swarms. An additional item recounts a New York anecdote about an honest man who is tested by a little girl with her dolly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Florian
Kansas City Times
New York
Long Island
New York Globe
Slow Answers and Birds as Sport Killers
A magistrate hears a case of assault with a wife admitting she slapped her husband after his slow reply. The passage then shifts to anecdotes about red squirrels, otters, house cats, and raptors killing birds and other animals for sport, citing various species and examples.
Salmon Triumph in Scottish Highands Hotel Tale
A young English tourist, staying in a Scottish highland hotel for leisure fishing, leaves with heavy costs after a dry week. On his final day he lands a fine salmon and quips to the Scot innkeeper that the fish at least has been worth his £15 outlay. The host replies in blunt local humor that it would have been a greater blessing if he hadn’t caught any more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercias
Scottish Highlands
Donald
Aweel
Mme Modjeska Jokes Audience Recites Polish Numbers
London Tit-Bits recounts how the famed Polish actress Mme. Modjeska teased a private audience by promising a native recital and finally spoke the numbers from one to a hundred in Polish. The crowd’s delight was tempered by the humor of the trick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Modjeska
London
Fruit dealer’s 5 franc apple contest story
An old Paris ad offered 5 francs for the largest apple sent to a fruit dealer. Winsome fruit caught on the bait and within weeks he had enough fruit to stock his shop. He paid 5 francs for the largest and kept the rest for sale, boosting his business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
A Heroic Struggle The Fight For Life of a Wrecked Whaler
A summary of a dramatic rescue from a whaler wreck off Cape Parry described in A H Harrison's book In Search of a Polar Continent. The Alexander struck in fog August 16, crew rushed to boats, Captain Tilton fell overboard but was saved by a rope. They drifted toward Herschel Island with 400 miles to go in open boats along a barren coast amid a raging sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capa Parry
A. H. Harrison
Tilton
Cape Parry
Herschel Island
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