Ball Night Tragedy and a Dragon of Deception?
A ball in a nearby town ends in tragedy after a young woman believing she danced with the devil instead of a real boarder, finds the man who posed as her partner asleep in the house and later the girl dies from self inflicted wounds. The incident provokes questions about the true identity of the man labeled J and the ominous influence of temptation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satan
Eve
Lucifer
Plage
Neaedi
Manter
Prince of Darkness
Advertising rates and policy for notices and obituaries
The notice outlines payment rules for newspaper ads and obituaries. It states charges for display ads, classified notices, and candidate announcements, with time-based and multi-line rates. It emphasizes cash payment, renewal handling, and penalties for expired or unpaid ads. It also notes promotional notices for corporations or individuals incur advertising charges.
A Word to Farmers Girls on Home Life and Flowers
An instructional piece arguing farm girls should share housework within safe limits and cultivate flowers, to improve taste, home appearance, and harmony with brothers. It urges modest kitchen and dairy labor, then advocates front yard flowers to beautify the farm and inspire gentler behavior among brothers. ends with a light verse and a scratch cure.
Newspaper Pay Demanded By Printers In Ranting Letter
A Marietta Journal letter argues printers deserve payment like other trades, citing taxes and living costs. It compares publishing to selling goods and calls for fair wages. The piece ends with lively fiction praising a temptingly alluring woman with waxy complexion and sharp tongue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Marietta Journal
The Power of Thought and the Weight of Words
A prose meditation on how words shape fate and mercy. Gentle speech softens hearts while harsh whispers provoke harm, judgment, or doom. The piece traces language from blessing to the words of doom at Calvary and ends with a warning to weigh every utterance against eternal consequence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Calvary
Paradise
Adam
A Small Boy and Tobacco Verses and Oddities
A fragmentary column mixes nursery verses on tobacco and onions with anecdotes and recipes. It notes tobacco stories told by boys, a joke about Walter Raleigh, and a recipe for Ery or eggplant dish, then shifts to demography and a Maine Journal item about a skull-marked drummer store.
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Gardiner
Maine
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Strange Story
Liel
Europe
America
England
Georgia
Georgia State Agricultural Society
Warthen
C. W. Howard
Nevada
Cuthbert
Male High School
Parente
Ling
Craelin
M.A. McNulty
Bethel Female College
Aes A
Oo Beaecing
A. H. Flewellen
A. M
Maniz C. Betuune
Jawre Warn
Fiona C. Keitu
Mars. E. B. Russele
Vans Jandztt
A.H. Flewellen
Spring Vale Institute UK
jeni-Im
Ce . C. Edwards
8. G. Robertson
Westmoreland
Scott Lampna Street
Fielder
Tous L. Fielder
Jas. H. Guerry
Dawson, Ga
BE. Kennon
Fort Gaines, GA
Empire Nursery
Georgetown
Ava
Surles &Co
Boffer
United States
Powell
Annie Laurie
Walter Raleigh
Nancy
Leroy
Tom
Maryland
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