Local notes and notices from a Carroll County page
Local chatter highlights visits by Dr and Mrs BE Seawright to Washington DC and Mrs Ella McLean with Miss Annis Belle Jones visiting Frank Jones. Community reminders include Palace Theater events next Tuesday and June 8 showings, county teachers at Carrollton, and a plan to plant trish potatoes with 125 club members sought by the county agent.
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Ella McLean
Annis Belle Jones
Mt. Springs
Frank Jones
Evangeline Film Tonight at Palace Theater
William Fox presents, through the English Department, a dramatized epic for school audiences. The June eighth show at the Palace Theater charges 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for pupils, with proceeds aiding future productions.
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William Fox
Palace Theater
Seawright
Card of Thanks from the Stinchcomb family
We thank the good people of this community for kindness shown at the death of our dear husband and father. We also thank Drs. Busey Jones and Ware for their efforts. May God bless each and every one for you. Mrs J A Stinchcomb and children.
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Drs. Busey,Jones and Ware
Aisten Bros. & Co Undertakers of Griffin Georgia
Aisten Bros. and Co. Griffin Georgia funeral home listing provides day and night phone numbers 3 and 575 631 and 163-5 for contact. Local notices identify the business as undertakers serving the Griffin area.
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Aisten Bros. & CO
Griffin, Ga
Undertakers
Mille Cows For Sale Near Brooks
Two Jersey cows with young calves for sale at R P Steinheimer’s place near Brooks Georgia. They are heavy milkers with showy udders and fine teats. contact R P Steinheimer in Brooks.
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Jersey
Brooks
Brewing Tea In Tibet Arts And Celestial Tea Churns
In Tibet tea comes in bricks from China and is ground to powder then boiled with water. Salt is added, and the liquid is strained into a churn with butter and barley meal stirred in. After a brief churn the tea is poured into a teapot and served in wooden bowls from the gowned host.
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Tibet
China
Kansas City Star
Ach Partaker
Unclear Heroism in Everyday Struggle
A reflective passage extols everyday courage and perseverance. It praises steady effort against obstacles, noting heroic souls advance despite poverty and hardship, moving forward when the aim is true. The text emphasizes resilience over applause or victory.
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Ite
Rafica
Derivation of Blackmail and its shifting meaning
The piece traces blackmail from a protection tribute paid to shield landholders and workers from raiders in northern England and Scotland. It notes the word blick originally meant to cherish or protect, akin to insurance, before expanding to describe extortion through intimidation and fraud.
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England
Scotland
Two Fishermen Share a Grim Anecdote in a Quiet Tale
A fisherman narrator recalls a grim scene told by two old fishermen outside a small shop. One recounts returning home to discover blood on the carpet and his wife injured, a brutal event unseen by him until that moment. The other interrupts with a casual question about the fish.
The Passion Play Origins and the Oberammergau Pact
Accounts dispute when the Passion Play began with some dating it centuries before the 30 Years War while reliable chroniclers trace it to 1654. Bavarian peasants vowed to perform the play every decade if the plague ceased and kept the vow until war interrupted the sequence.
Metric Denominations and Volumes
The text lists metric units for capacity: kiloliter or stere equals 1000 liters and one cubic meter, hectoliter equals 100 liters, dekaliter equals ten liters, liter equals one cubic decimeter, dew liter equals one tenth of a liter, centiliter equals one hundredth of a liter, and milliliter equals one thousandth of a liter. Each unit’s relation to the liter and cubic decimeter is described.
Absent remarks and the devil within quotes
Henry Ward Beecher laments the treatment of the absent. He notes people praise or condemn others openly and compares persistent gossip to infernal behavior. He argues denigrating others is unchristian and suggests such talk reveals a malevolent disposition.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Helgoland Legends and the Great Staircase Tale
A fragment recalls Helgoland legends of a great staircase rising to rocky heights. It mentions an eighteenth century scene where a baby’s feet were buttered to prevent slipping, and a fairy’s bargain for exchange with a faire who might cry.
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Helgoland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs
BE. C. Seawright
Washington, D.C
Elizabeth Fife
Wesleyan
Macon
Thomas HE. Watson
Democratic Party
Delos Miller
Spalding County
Mrs. J. J. Davis
W. L. Hicks
Cartersville
Chautauqua—Palace Theater
Thornton
Teachers’ Institute
Carrollton
State of Ohio
Toledo
Waces County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
Srank J. Cheney
A. W. Gleason
FF. J. Cheney & CO
Fir
Hull
EH. W. Duke
Miss Aubie
Atlanta
Snyder
W. §. Travis
Apalachee
J. D. Dorsey
Edgar Bushin
Gordon Institute
Mr. Oliver Reems
Mississippi
Corinth
W. W. Redwine
Dorothy
Washington, D. C
Europe
Roy Cash
G.M. Stell
A. L. Mathews
H E. Davidson
Evangeline
J. A. Stinchcomb
Georgette
Tricolette
Peters St
Atlanta, Ga
R. P. Steinheimer
Georgia
Risbane, Arthur
Aer
Bugs” LY
Bryan
Blythe
Saturday Evening Post
Brisbane
Baer
Bly
Peter B. Kyne
Damon Runyon
Fannie Hurst
Arthur Capper
Kansas
France
Maryland
Walsh
Massachusetts
International News Service
Universal Service
Chicago
San Francisco
MR. A. Rosenbloom
Sale
Mae Lrype
A. Rosenbloom
Fayetteville, CA
Littl
A.hy
Dre
Offiten
Lear
Tun
National Biscuit Company
Auty
Aluy National
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