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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
3
Acids poison the blood causing heart and artery diseases skin disorders joints and nerves. Re vitalizing the blood with S. 5 detoxifies and purifies the system, claimed to have helped thousands for fifty years. Ask a druggist for it or write the Swift Specific Co Medical Department Atlanta Ga.
In Memoriam notices Mary E Neal died March 24 1917 at age 93 leaving son J T Neal and daughter Laurah Attaway and many siblings. She joined Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church in 1863 and served the sick and needy. Funeral at Mt Zion May 1917 conducted by Rev D W Carter.
Georgia A Smith of Carroll County applies for twelve months support from the estate of her late husband John W Smith for herself and two minor children. Appraisers who valued the set apart report must be examined. Creditors and kin are cited to show cause why the application and report should not be approved by June first, 1917. May 7, 1817. W J Millican Ordinary.
A plea to readers to share or subscribe to the Free Press to build its audience. The notice encourages neighbors to obtain a sample copy or ask a neighbor to write in, aiming to expand readership.
Grocers warn of looming famine and urge Georgia to boost home canning. Community canneries, bank-financed and farmer owned, would reduce waste, raise output, and cut reliance on distant suppliers from Ohio to California.
The unnamed death notices report Albert McWhorter, age four, died after one day of illness on May 12. Funeral services were held at Centralhatches with burial in the cemetery. Local families and guests visited each other, and Decoration Day events are planned at Walker and Goshen graveyards.
A reader is advised to place a Free Press classified ad offering items they no longer need for sale at a rate of one cent per word. The note promotes the inexpensive listing and urges readers to act.
A call urges every farmer and householder to consider the cannery issue and craft concrete plans to establish canneries across Georgia. The piece stresses time remains, even for this year's crop, and asks what Georgian proposes to do.
A court ordered sale of an undivided one half interest in the J. D. Hamrick home place Carrollton. The property lies bounded by Williamson Longview street Central of Georgia Railway right of way and Holderness property. Sale by cash to highest bidder on first Tuesday in June 1817 for L. B. Mandeville’s estate. Signed Essie Mandeville Administratrix.
A Louisville Courles Journal note highlights women as successful in business, citing advantages such as keeping books and a mental ledger, portraying female capability in management and finance.
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