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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1903
Page
1
W W Miller grows The Lady Thompson strawberries on Coffee road and expects four to five hundred dollars from the patch with berries eaten at home. The piece extols the common school, praising its universal reach and reforming influence under Horace Mann.
This article notes a Friday mixed foursome with scores in two classes, wins by pairs including Dr Blackshear and Mrs Buckley 55 and Mr Dismuke with Miss Scott 66, plus club improvements. At the annual meeting officers were re elected and the clubhouse progress plus weed clearance planned.
Testimonial from Mrs. George B Haiti of Jackson Tennessee extols Dr Miles Nervine for restoring appetite and nerves after LaGrippe. The ad claims rapid relief from insomnia headaches and fatigue and urges readers to purchase locally and request the free book from Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
A French doctor links corsets to appendicitis and outlines a movement cure using a spring loaded couch and pneumatic pounding device to hammer disease out and renew tissue. Reports note Paris society women suffered abdominal issues, attributed to corset pressure disrupting digestion. Additional items mention Typhoid antitoxin via frozen bacilli and a Pasteur institute cure where epilepsy improved after hydrophobia treatment in Vienna.
A humorous fragment records a phone call to a Times-Enterprise with a caller asking for a sensational piece about cows on a street. The text mocks seasonal graduation chatter and shifts to a meta remark on journalism and polite irony.
The passage cites California producing over 18 million dollars in oranges and 17 million in gold. It claims Sitka and Omaha share the same average annual temperature. It discusses the Bertillon system identifying criminals in France, India's Christian and Muslim populations, khaki uniforms in the tropics, malaria mosquitoes preferring blue, and a Hopkinsville burial ground discovery with ten skeletons in stone-receptacle graves.
Mr W O Fleming a Bainbridge Argus editor visited Thomasville on Sunday. Under Fleming and Graves the Argus is improving with every issue. Our mounted infantry and summer fbornoons are noted as pleasant. Lindle Ansley visited her sister at Moultrie Sunday. Thomasville sees a building boom and widespread hammering activity. The Calvert Sun editor was shot in a street duel recently.
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