Local social notes and shop ads in Franklin
Local residents visit Atlanta and Texas relatives while many attend the State Fair. School entertainment planned for Friday the 25th at 2:30. Baskin & Baskin promote new fall patterns, lace, curtains, hats, and dresses. The Free Press updates printing capacity after installing a new press. Waght of Pythias lodge issues notices and urges regular attendance. Extra large blankets and new yard goods featured.
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Waght of Pythias
Mclntosh Lodge
Senator Spooner Praises Georgia Statesmen in Atlanta
Ex Senator Spooner in Atlanta on October 12 issued a statement praising Senators Clay and Bacon of Georgia and Congressmen Adamson and Livingston. He lauded their roles on important committees in the national capital, stating their work benefited the state and was widely respected among senators and congressmen.
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Spooner
Georgia
Atlanta
Joh
Clay
Bacon
Adamson
Livingston
Miss Katherine Fain Hosts Lit Mu Club Meeting
The Lit Mu Club held its first fall meeting at Miss Katherine Vain’s Rome street home. Topics centered on The Coming of Arthur with Nell Mandeville tracing Arthurian legend, and poetry readings by Mrs J F Boykin Miss Margart Simonton and Mrs M M Bradley.
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Lit. Mu
Katherine Vain
Rome Street
Arthur
Nell Mandeville
Margart Simonton
M. M. Bradley
Italy
Simonton
Ben Jonson
Tennyson
Meslin
W. C. Adam Avo
Frosts Hit Abilene As Community Singers Gather
Abilene reports several frosts this week while residents attend a Sunday singing at Shady Grove. N.N. Baxter and wife visited Mr. Morgan near the grove. Miss Leile Almon of Center Vint stayed with Miss Clara Wgbchard. Gilbert Parish and wife spent time with J.Y. Parrish and family. Rev J.M. Stallings preached an interesting sermon at Abilene Saturday night. Cliff Brock and Miss Wuassie Baxter visited Mrs. Della Huggins. Wyatt Chandler and family visited T. Li. Snell Sunday. The young people sang at J. D Uf yrgius Sunday night. Jim Hubbard of Atlanta visited his father WS Hubbard.
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Leile Almon
Center Vint
Clara Wgbchard
Yeda
J. D Uf
Veal's School House Meeting At Menas Grove
The second Saturday meeting at Menas Grove drew a large crowd with the former pastor delivering the opening remarks and the new pastor in attendance to accept the position for the upcoming year. Church Conference was calm and orderly, offerings were collected, and about one thousand people gathered despite the Primitive Association at Bethany church near Typa. Mrs Gas Knight remains on her sick bed, not improving. Your Scribe met many friends and veterans at the Bethany Association on the second Sunday.
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Imenas Grove
Primitive Association
Bethany Church
Tyna
Gas Knight
War Maes
Association
Bethany
Complete styles. The biggest bargain yet in Enamel ware at Carrollton How
Enamel ware shoppers are promised a major saving as Carrollton How debuts a wide range of durable enamel products. The sale highlights value pricing on bakeware, cookware and decorative pieces with discounts aimed at budget buyers and home cooks alike.
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Carrollton How, Co
Juggernaut Car Festival At Pouri In Orissa
In mid June crowds gather in Pouri Orissa to pull the Juggernaut car through the streets. The massive wooden vehicle, forty three feet high with two six foot wheels, carries the image of Vishnu and draws devout pilgrims who risk their lives for salvation while British officers intervene to prevent fatal acts.
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Sindooa
Pouri
Oriswa
India
Juggernaut
Vishnu
Paradise
Ody
Wheela
Irish Trial Tale Sparks Laughs in Courtroom
An Alabama congressman recalls a centuries old Irish joke about a son of Erin charged with stealing pork. Lacking counsel, a young lawyer is appointed by the court. The jury returns guilty and the prisoner laments the lack of a fair trial. The judge replies the court did appoint counsel. The Irishman quips that two such lawyers would have hung him for murder.
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Alabama
Erin
Sprig
Coals of Fire and the Cornishman’s Metaphor Misfire
A district visitor counsels a poor Cornishwoman to “heap coals of fire on his head” to reform her drunken husband. She retorts that she has already doused him with boiling water, and mocks the idea, illustrating a public misreading of a Biblical proverb in a local tale from Grand Magazine.
The Green Peril Absinth, a febrifuge liquor
Absinth is a green herbal liquor made by steeping anise and wormwood in alcohol for days. It was introduced in France by troops in Algiers between 1830 and 1840 and soon linked to demoralization. Habitual use can cause hallucinations tremors epilepsy and delusional insanity.
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France
Algiers
Singular and Feminine in a Telephone Exchange
Little Mabel asks to speak to daddy over the telephone at Ae and correctly asks for Nunbar using the phrase singular in a calm telephone operator voice. The girl exults in her grammar knowledge as she navigates the call.
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Mabel
Soshe
Daddy
Central
Little Mabel
Harvest concerns as winter nears in rural gathering scene
Report from a local farming community notes farmers rushing to harvest amid looming winter. Miss Beggie Cruse and D. W. Cruse visit homefolk, while Joe Hammonds’ house burns Sunday evening. Mr. Pink Styles of Atlanta visits, singing continues weekly, and local merchants promote clothing lines and farm equipment including a two horse reversible plow from Carrollton Hardware Co.
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Uattie Aycock
Jack Turner
Baskin & Baskin
Bob Jones
Whitesburg
Bernard Bass
Mandeville Long
Texas
Paul Jack
J. C. Brock
A.J. Wiley
Long View
Willis G. Brown
Marietta
Knoxville
Judge
W. F. Brown
Warren S Jackson
Thomas County
J. H. Melson
A. & M. College
Carrollton
Franklin
Heard County
Ladies Home Journal Patterns Baskin & Baskin
Assetant
Jin Browo
Bask N & Baskin
J. W. Barrow
Bowdon, GA
Bowdon
Carrollton Furniture & Undertaking Company
Limcon PonaTeo
Carrollton Furniture & Undertaking
Carrollton, Georgia
Miss
Katherine Fain
Morocco
Lumberwok
Wil Morgan
Carro Jton
Abilene
Shady Grove
N.N. Baxter
Me. Morgan
Wyatt Chandler
T. Li. Snell
Veal’s
Ladies Home Journal Patterns
Europe
Baby
Gtallydyaitt Cy
Caarnollton, Ga
Rocky Mt
Tyny
Miss Beggie Cruse
Homefolk
Billie Wubbard
Family
Will.v
To. Cruse
D. W. Cruse
Joe Hammonds
Mr. Pink Styles
Parker & Wood
Carrollton Hdw. Co
Baskin & Basking
Carroliton Hdw. Co
J. M. Walker & Sona
Western Georgia Real Estate Co
Carrollton, GA
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