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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1921
Page
4
A garbled variety of topics appears from politics and finance to marriage and fashion. The piece touches on Japan and Yap, a pet dog inheritance, movie villains, radishes, and banking, peppered with humorous asides about life, health, and the era's attitudes.
A local comparison argues Madison thrives on strong advertising support from merchants with multiple half page and quarter page yearly contracts, while Commerce shows fewer ads. It notes Madison’s population 2348 vs Commerce 2459 and cites boll weevil impact, concluding the dispute hinges on merchants’ investment in printer's ink.
A Dalton Citizen note presents Ray Bryan Collier's timely poem Georgia Makes Answer praising Georgia's resolve. It invokes Lanier and Crawford, cites unity from Habersham to Glynn, and urges no tolerance for mob violence while calling the state to uphold law and justice. The piece ends with a quip about a New York sugar corner financier's suicide.
Mrs Betty Reynolds Cobb of Carrollton delivers Memorial Day remarks in Newnan with Miss Helen Long introducing and recounts Confederate memory, Southern identity, and duty national and local leaders, praising veterans and urging patriotism and civic responsibility.
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