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Newspaper
Carroll Free Press
Location
Carrollton, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1886
Page
1
A telegraph column reports on the Benford murder case in Wilkerson and Twiggs counties with witness statements and defense notes. It covers related remarks by Lovill, Pettis, and attorney Jones, plus a long Tallapoosa area profile and a Tennessee political roundup including Bob Davis’s speeches and a civic law enforcement view.
A captain between Atlantic City and New York suffered a cough that kept him awake until he used Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The remedy provided instant relief and eased chest soreness for him and his children after a single dose. The product is praised as a standard household remedy now.
Miss Willard promotes the White Cross movement originated in London and backed by church state and society leaders. She denounces libertine sentiment and calls for moral reform, public virtue, and strict social standards including late hours, propriety in conversation, and selecting leaders.
For sale by Hallum, Hamrick & Co. Bucklen's Arnica Salve touted as best for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, corns, eruptions, and guaranteed to relieve piles with money back. Price five cents per box.
The Cedartown Advertiser notes Alf and Bob Taylor campaigning for governor of Tennessee as brothers stumping the state together. Bob argues unity over rivalry and uses the red and white rose symbolism to describe their political bond and contrasts. The piece also reports on Als Alabama Arbachoochee gold mine in Cleburne county Alabama and the Denson claim, with 320 acres secured by Philpot and Leake and rumors of rich specimens and a nugget pin worn by a female owner.
The piece discusses rheumatism treatment with Hood s Sarsaparilla and its claimed benefits, comments on farmers and debt, warns young ducklings need protection, notes Carrollton boom with railroad plans and property sales, and ends with thoughts on reform and order in work.
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