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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
8
A local store highlights a full selection of millinery items including ladies hats children's hats babies hats and caps with ribbons plumes and wings. Expert milliners assist shoppers and prices are advertised as very low to encourage purchases.
Complete stock of ruchings collars tiesHolk s gloves combs belts belt buckles hair rats hand bags cuff pins supporters corsets and all dress essentials offered at economical prices. 7a in Irish Linen Damask priced at 1.00 89c 58 in imitation Linen Damask white valued at 40c now 25c Napkins to match these goods 30c a set up to 3 per dozen
A Boston Record tale describes a contractor preferring wood over paper for notes. He searches frantically for a scrap of wood to draft calculations while his men rent a building. The locker questions his habit as he admits not using paper, citing a habit of working on wood instead.
A New York dinner anecdote recalls Bishop Potter as a famed beauty recalls his charm and a Vermont country house moment. The speaker notes Potter’s odd request to help tally charity prescriptions and his quip about forgiveness and doing something useful.
A court scene shows a judge scolding Abraham for neglecting his wife and children while joking about lymting possum. Abe defends his affection for his wife, insisting he loves them both, and references a coon as a sharp retort in the exchange.
A London Answersquip details a house to house salesman touting The Mother's Guide as a parenting aid. A aghast victim tests the book, striking the salesman with it, then refuses to purchase, deeming it no better than the ordinary slipper.
In a Sunday morning scene Mrs. Harwood discovers children Tommy Ethel and another outside the kitchen door as they sniff through a crack for odors from a small mold. Ethel complains Tom has eaten five smells while she has only four, while Tommy excuses his silence with a cold.
A Washington man visiting Virginia notes a tree heavy with apples and asks if all trees are as fruitful. The child guide explains only the apple trees are laden, while others are not, in a humorous exchange cited from Harper's Weekly.
Large stock of lace curtains portiers and shades in all designs priced from 48 cents per pair up to 5.00 per pair. A few pairs of portiers and hall curtains close out at sunny window shades in green dark green white and blue each 25 cents.
A sales catalog fragment lists various cotton fabrics and textiles with prices per yard, including cotton suitings, dress fabrics, ginghams, checks, flannel, sheeting, and blankets. Items noted include imitation wool suitings, heavy outings, fancy stripes, plaids, solid colors, ginghams, and sea island sheeting with prices ranging from 1 cent to $1.50 per yard.
Large selection of men boys and children suits and overcoats from leading manufacturers with maker guarantees. Mens suits priced from 5.05 to 35.00, overcoats 3.90 to 22.50. Sale offers discounts 35 to 50 percent on broken sizes including boys suits 1.50 to 10.00 and boys overcoats 2.25 to 6.50.
Large stock of fine shoes shown in Carrollton including top mens brands Boyden's Barry's Ultra American Girl Paris Spartans in Kid Calf Patent or Brown. Also hats Wo Name Herald Stetson, shirts and collars, neckwear, silk mufflers. Mens and boys underwear wool or cotton. Trunks and suit cases 25 percent sale.
The Glasgow Times recalls how telegraph delays left victors and defeats awaited with anxiety. Writers describe the jubilant arrival of news by mail coach, horses decked with laurels, a red flag, a scarlet guard, and a horn. The crowd roars through Gallowgate to Nelson Street as the guard fires a blunderbuss to announce the news.
A humorist who long pressed the council to fill a muddy hole by his home witnessed a council member flounder in it at night. He greeted him with a quip about finally stirring the matter, then closed the door and left the official to free himself.
The text explains Sabbath as a Hebrew term meaning rest and period, noting yearly and seven year cycles. It states the seventh day as the weekly Sabbath and that other days had similar rest obligations. It argues Sunday is named for a day devoted to worship and is treated as Sabbath by Christian nations, but Sabbath is not Sunday.
A business man counsels his son on sizing up people. A noisy group, after a club outing, pauses before a grand house and asks for Missus Shmith. A woman at a second story window responds, questioning their target, as the men awkwardly beg for Mr Shmith to descend.
From the Atlantic coast rain production advanced westward with settlement until it reached the North Saskatchewan river foothills of the Rockies. In early days the Richelieu valley was the Arent wheat field bearing forty crops in succession. Seaver notes Swettson won £5 on a bet, prompting laughter about bets on obvious propositions.
A claim circulates that holding one’s breath allows safe honey gathering from a beehive without getting stung. The text asserts that the hornet’s attack fails when breathing is paused, enabling a person to pick up the insect and observe its futile sting attempts.
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