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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1886
Page
2
The piece argues against concentrated power, urging decentralization and people’s voice in governance. It notes Henry R. Harris seeking another term, calls a congressional convention in LaGrange, and mentions support lines for Bacon, Gordon, and Felton. It cites ratification debates and a proposed daily issue by the Coweta Advertiser.
The notice lists tax levies on properties in multiple districts including Fifth and Sixth, naming owners such as J. W. Manning A. A. Manning executor and N. J. Chambers. It also reports the death of J. D. Stone four miles west of Villa Rica, describing a sudden death while he was at work and detailing the events leading to discovery by his nephew Hiram Embry. The obituary commends his character and community service. It then shifts to an advertisement for Peterson's Magazine July issue, highlighting engravings, fashion plates, stories, and subscription offers.
A Telegraph correspondent visits the Milledgeville asylum and finds well behaved, rational inmates, with many content and well cared for. Superintendent Powell and staff organize frequent amusements from dances to concerts to keep minds off causes of confinement and reduce restraint. About twelve hundred inmates, hardly one in a hundred uncontrolled, appear happy and engaged.
An advertisement for Dress Reform for Ladies offering a free unit with four cents postage, plus a sales agent program promising strong monthly earnings. The notice highlights Madame Dean's spinal corsets and agency terms. The June Century issue features Houdan’s Benjamin Franklin bust frontispiece and unpublished Franklin letters edited by John Bigelow, with an essay by I M Buckley on faith healing and related phenomena.
The issue features Austin Dobson’s Thames sketches and portraits of famous literary figures, Mrs Schuyler van Rensselaer on American country houses, and Ingersoll on Harvard Botanic Garden. War coverage centers on Antietam with Longstreet, Harper’s Ferry, and Jackson anecdotes. Fiction includes Howells’s The Minister’s Charge, Page’s Meh Lady, and Johns ton’s The Hotel Experience. Open letters discuss education, labor, and corruption. poems by Spofford and others.
An 19th century health ad touts Parson's Pills as a universal cure and preventive for fever, liver and digestive issues, operatically promising renewed youth. It claims long experience since 1810, offers boxed pills for 25 cents, and an engraving of President Cleveland with a free illustrated pamphlet upon request. It directs orders to Parsons Johnson & Co, Boston.
Itch Prairie Mange and Scratch ailments are claimed to be cured in 80 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. The advert says to use no other product and assures it never fails. Sold by Hallam Hamrick & Co Druggists in Carrollton Georgia.
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