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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
4
Mrs. Brownlee haggled over a vase price with a dealer. After a long wait he refused a ten dollar bill for change. Brownlee hunted for small notes through several shops, finally getting coins to cover the amount, only to find she had spent the ten dollars elsewhere.
A neighbor recalls Abraham Lincoln as a tall man in shirt sleeves reading a book while gently pushing a baby buggy on the lawn. He is remembered first as a kind husband and devoted father, later seen as president greeting a young admirer in Washington with simple warmth.
A Manchester firm received an Arabic business letter translated by a Syrian interpreter. It requested the price of coppering "two water sheep" of specified dimensions. The translator, unsure of the phrase, soon realized the term meant hydraulic rams, a pastoral people’s closest synonym.
In a brief dispute a pair of friends claim ownership of an umbrella. One insists it is his, the other counters that he has held it for six months, noting initials misread as his. The dialogue ends unresolved with a reference to borrowed ownership.
A British naturalist notes that animals defend themselves with diverse weapons. Horned hornless antelopes have hollow horns, deer bear strong solid horns, rhinoceroses show movable horns, and elephants edge their ivory tusks against predators.
An old lawyer John Strange asks his wife to bury him with a plain stone bearing I’m buried an Honest Lawyer. He insists the inscription will be completed by onlookers who will supply the name, and they will say That’s Strange.
A humorous quote depicts Mrs Oldwoman in a dire bind over medical family ties. She explains that naming one of two homoeopaths as son in law would upset the other, and choosing neither would anger both, leaving her convinced she must die.
A meditation on male inconsistency in romance. The author notes men adore flirtation before marriage yet overlook similar small embellishments after tying the knot, comparing a flower in curls to a wreath in pursuit of affection.
The fez, worn by all classes in the Turkish empire and beyond, is named after the African city Fez. In the Levant it is more often called tarbosh. Though distinctly Turkish or Mussulman now, the fez is not ancient among the Ottomans and was said to be introduced by Sultan Mahmud II who adopted it from the Greeks.
A short advert touts Dr Shoop's Cough Remedy as the fastest relief for a tickling cough. It emphasizes safety for mothers to use with even the youngest children and cites mountain shrub leaves as the active benefit, with Camp Drug Co as the seller.
An advertisement urges readers to choose Foley's Honey and Tar from Johnson Drug Co as a safe, non drug containing cough remedy that cures obstinate coughs and colds, discouraging experiments with health.
A Johnson Drug Co advertises Eoley's Honey and Tar as a rapid remedy for coughs and colds. The product claims to strengthen lungs and expel illness, available in a yellow package.
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