Miller's Academy Sunday School Progress and Community Singing
The Sunday School at Miller’s Academy is progressing nicely under Rev Ham on’s supervision. Local residents reported a busy weekend with singing at Hollie Spring’s and County Line. Messages invite all to the all day singing at Peasant View on the fourth Sunday in May and urge correspondence from readers.
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Miller’s Academy
Hamon
ure.Dryden
Alabama
Mre Kilgore
G. L McEwen
Hollie Spring
County Line
G L McEwen
Raburn
Peasant View
Local Social Notes from Sand Hill and Nearby
Hutlett and Arthur Boggs of Sand Hill spent Sunday with Mrs Elizah Boggs and Mrs Eura Aderhold with Grover Hall visiting relatives in Atlanta. Rev Joe Layton fulfilled his Mars Hill appointment. Mural E Stallings visited Mrs Fannie Duncan’s family Saturday and Sunday. Mrs Hubert Wiggins of Carrollton stayed with Miss Fannie Sewell over the weekend. Charley Griffis and wife of Sand Hill visited W H Griffis’s family Sunday. Mrs Alice Hughes of Greensboro, visiting her father Rush McWhorter, returned home with sister Miss Kionié McWhorter.
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Arthur Boggs
Sand Hill
Elizah Boggs
Eura Aderhold
Grover Hall
Atlanta
Joe Layton
Mars Hill
Hubert Wiggins
Carrollton
Fannie Sewell
Charley Griffis
W H Griffis
Allce Hughes
Greensboro
Rush mcWhorter
Kionié McWhorter
Farmers lag in planting after heavy rains in Kansas
The article notes farmers are behind with planting due to persistent rain. It mentions a local all day singing at Providence with attendees from the area, a marriage of John Kingsbery and Julia Dougherty on the first Sunday last, and visits by A F Smith and family to relatives. I W Teague and wife of Waco visited the area earlier in the week. Next weekend hosts regular meetings at Poplar Springs. Best wishes to Freas Preas and readers.
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Providence
John Kingsbery
Julia Dougherty
A F Smith
Ra J B McGuire
Teague
Waco
Poplar Springs
Freas Preas
Funeral for John T Knott in Ephigus Church Cemetery
Union notes sunshine after rain as Mrs Byrtie Jones recovers from illness. John T Knott dies after measles and pneumonia at age 41. The funeral at Ephigus church drew a large crowd, with T O F honors and burial near home. He leaves wife and relatives.
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Byrtie Jones
Angel of Death
John T. Knott
Ephigus Church
When a Python Kills Its Prey in Rest and Hunger
An India reminiscence details a tame Indian python ten to eleven feet long kept in a beer chest. It slowly wakes on Sundays, eats rats in sequence, and kills each by constriction and swift engulfing, with the sixth rat spared as a terrier’s prize. The piece notes the merciful, natural method and the natives’ threats to snakes if wounded.
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India
Flien
London Field
Red Light Bottles to Colored Vases Sign of Druggists
A London Chronicle tale traces apothecaries shift from a red light sign to bottles of red yellow and green liquids in windows. Rivalry spurred further color signs, culminating in the now familiar colored vases used by druggists everywhere.
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London Chronicle
Cough Properly For Health and Laughter
A collection of small anecdotes and tips about coughing gently to protect lungs. Humorous misreadings of headstones and a stuttering classroom moment illustrate how language and health quirks shape daily life.
Land to Spare in Dinner Debate
A Scottish highlander and an Englishman argued which nation was superior over a public dinner in Edinburgh. The highlander countered every point with logic and refused to concede England’s larger area, noting Scotland’s mountainous terrain would still outpace England in flat acreage when rolled out.
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Hundrada
Seat Hate Turned on Broadway Car
A crowded Broadway car holds two portly men who refuse to share a seat with a schoolgirl. A massive scrub woman arrives with pail and supplies, rises, and offers her seat, pushing the men aside as the girl laughs at her revenge.
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New York
San
Shop Girl Fines Memoir On Strict Shop Rules
A worn memo details shop fines levied on a shop girl for tiny infractions and delays. It lists charges such as leaving 1 yard of fabric unserved, late delivery, miscounted addends, and faded handwriting. The memo paints a strict, humorless mood from a Chicago paper extract.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
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