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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1914
Page
8
Local items record Jim Webb in Birmingham and Miss Annie May Perdue in Atlanta, along with many residents traveling to Nashville, Macon, Rome, Greenville, and Jacksonville. Missing cameo notices offer rewards, while the community business scene includes Butterick patterns, school choirs, and a corn sale.
Rev. J. S. Oxford secured Dr. Victor I. Masters to preach the Carrollton High School commencement sermon at the Tabernacle next Sabbath at 11 o clock. Masters, Editorial Secretary of the Home Mission Board, is praised as a virile Southern thinker and writer. The article urges attendance.
A limited offer advertises a 17 jewel, adjusted Waltham watch with an elegant 20 year engraved case for $11.50. Creel & Harper of Carrollton, Georgia invite readers to mail a postal to receive the watch by parcel post.
A London Express tale recalls a west end shop incident where a delicate ware broke after the first customer a doctor paid for it. Years later the now wealthy salesman visited the doctor and agreed to pay £5000 yearly for life, settling the old matter.
A historical snippet discusses population change, noting that natural increase triples the white population over forty years while the black population doubles, implying an increasing share of minority groups in the overall population.
A scrambled, damaged note describes an event with a panter and injuries. Key names and places are unreadable, but a person named Cheke Bill is mentioned with a neck bruise after a fall. The text is fragmented and lacks clear dates or locations.
A Homebound discussion records a Housewives league member asking what a sinking fund is and a reply that it is a fund large enough to keep something afloat referenced in the Buffalo Express.
A quip about a man who favors a restaurant lunch over a homemade meal is attributed to Houston Fost. The joke hinges on a pun about carrying a lunch when returning home. The line plays on circumstantial evidence to imply a wife’s cooking quality.
A brief quip features Chuggins from Livingstone Lance noting humor in car life. The line questions what is most likely to break in an automobile and answers with the owner, delivering a wry reflection in period tone.
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