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Post Office hours 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. except Sunday. Sast bound mail closes 10:30 a.m. West bound close 6:30 p.m. Vernon mail arrives 10 a.m. and leaves at 12 noon except Sundays. From Orange Fill Barhead and St Andrews arrivals 6 p.m. and depart 1 a.m. daily except Sunday. Sunday hours 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Money orders issued whenever open except Sundays. 4.8. ALLEY P. M.
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Vernon
Orange Fill
Barhead
St. Andrews
Journal's World Fair Contest Draws Atlanta Subscribers
The Journal offers forty free trips to the St Louis World's Fair for the eight and two outsiders in Atlanta and Fulton County. Eligible subscribers may submit estimates without advance payment with a carrier’s sign for each payment. Contest ends midnight April 14 with May 1st gate opening.
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Atlanta
St. Louis
Fulton County
Fach Wubscriber
Mammoth Ocean Appetite and Hearty Shipboard Meals
A traveling observer remarks on sea travel food, noting ships provide endless meals from breakfast to supper. He praises generous service on English liners and German lines across the Atlantic, while mentioning Pensacola’s active wool market with over 80 000 pounds traded last year.
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Panama
Guayagail
Pensacola
Classified subscription rates from early 20th century papers
The notice lists historical rates for newspapers including Banner and Semi-weekly Atlanta Journal at 1.75 per year, Thrice weekly New York World at 1.65, Banner and Semi-weekly Times-Union and Citizen at 1.50, and Home and Farm at 1.50 per year.
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New York World
Times
Unon
Citizen
Tan Banner
The
Atlanta Weekly Journal
Banner
NEW York World Chipley Banner
Poverty and Riches a Sermon Reflection
The Augusta Chronicle quotes a scripture lesson on wealth and poverty. It argues true value lies in wisely using wealth or indigence, noting both can aid or hinder salvation and citing the famed question about profit from the world at the expense of the soul.
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Augusta Chronicle
Dripping Citizens Clash in Wet Street Murder
On the rainy twenty ninth, two dripping neighbors argued about weather for crops and one struck with an umbrella, killing the other. The incident occurred amid heavy rain, with witnesses noting the fatal escalation and the umbrella as the weapon in the confrontation.
Chinese Boxers Fail to Break American Captive
The captors tire after two hours of torture as the American captive, once a baseball umpire, keeps giggling. The eldest Boxer calls him a White Devil, while the crowd chants from a distance, believing their methods futile.
Imprisoned King in Onitsha Celebrates One Day
In Onitsha, West Africa, the king spends most of the year confined within his palace by custom. One day annually he roams the town in splendor, funded by the quarter of all game shot by his people, making daily feasts affordable.
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Onitsha
Wess Africa
A Queer Translation From India Hymn Rendered Differently
A missionary just returned from India notes slow religious work due to Bible translation difficulties. He cites teaching the hymn Rock of Ages, cleft for me, and a native student’s vernacular version that, when retranslated, becomes Very old stone, split for my benefit, let me absent myself beneath one of thy fragments.
Joke exchange at Yale ends with cabbage bed advice
Off duty Yale Professor Richards enjoys a student prank. The student asks for a receipt for catching rabbits, and the professor replies that crouching behind a wall and making a nip noise is inferior to sitting quietly in a bed of cabbage heads and looking natural.
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Richards
Yale
New York Times
Honest Opinion Over Polite Evasions In Speech
A Detroit Free Press quotation discusses the habit of masking disapproval with the phrase very nice. It argues honesty is preferable to polite falsehood and urges speakers to state the truth boldly rather than hide it behind hedged approval.
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Detroit Free Press
Bee sting adds formic acid to honey say bee raiser
A bee raiser argues the sting does not primarily hurt but finishes honey cell work. He says bees inject a minute amount of formic acid during sealing, giving honey its flavor and preserving it. The sting acts as a tiny trowel to cap cells once filled with honey.
A Bird That's Hard to Kill and a Penguin Miracle
An account from a shipboard storyteller describes killing a large bird with a spike through its head and nailing it to the deck. After an hour, the penguin aboard the Southern Cross stood upright and waddled about, the spike still fixed in its skull, defying the apparent fatal wound.
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Southern Cross
A Curious Nomenclature In Grenada Names Pass Down Fathers’ Christian Names
In Grenada many families name children by passing the father's Christian name as the son's surname. Thus a father named John Jones may have a son James John and a grandson Robert James, continuing for generations. This custom creates confusion about exact kinship over time.
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Grenada
John Jones
James John
Robert James
Discouraged Artist Finds Hope in Honest Friend
A despondent artist laments declining skill and distance from his work. A trusted friend reassures him, arguing his taste has improved with time and that talent remains, offering encouragement amid self doubt.
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