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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1923
Page
8
A Detroit Free Press excerpt discusses how the telephone fosters evasive behavior and excuses. It notes shy individuals can lie more easily when unseen, while the caller can feign illness or fatigue. It likens telephones to handy, canned invitations for unexpected guests.
The Vikings were not only fierce warriors but eminent maritime explorers able to sail by sun and stars without modern instruments. They navigated oceans with square sails, venturing north and west, influencing later voyages as other nations learned to chart the seas. The article also notes shoe varnish techniques to extend sole life and waterproofing benefits, advising careful application and drying between coats.
Jefferson Boyce, famed locally for large appetites, accepted a $5 bet to eat 36 doughnuts at Pete's Original Coffee House at 6 pm after testing his limit. He sought to raise the stake to $207 but stuck to the planned challenge, inviting the wager with confidence.
Date palms set out by early missionaries in 1720 still yield high quality fruit. About 2.5 million pounds are shipped annually to Mexican markets. Small groves appear in Sonora where water is available, with Guaymas noting a palm that produced up to 1,000 pounds in a single season. Most crops are operated by Chinese merchants and shipped within Sonora and Sinaloa.
The text proclaims poetry's mission to console the afflicted and brighten daily life by elevating happiness, guiding youth and the gracious to think and feel more deeply, and thus become more virtuous in a proactive, secure manner. It names Bioriwo sworth ca fae as attribution.
The Vanderbilts invite Mrs. Williams Astor and her daughter to a forthcoming ball after a dispute over inviting Miss Carrie Astor. The dress quadrille organized by Miss Astor prompted Mrs Vanderbilt to extend an invitation, solidifying the Vanderbilts as New York society leaders.
A description of Darjeeling near the India Tibet border portrays a weekly open market where wealth is visibly worn as jewelry. The scene blends exotic images of Hill people, Hindu turbans, plantation laborers, Tibetan climbers, and diverse ethnic faces from Tamil to Parsees as observed by a Christian Science Monitor writer.
Laura 3B Lockwood notes Milton drafted Lycidas with minimal premeditation. He wrote the opening lines, paused on the flower passage, discarded it, and rewrote. Line 146 offered initial inspiration, while 148 mixed fancy and imagination. After completing the poem anew with limited recasting, Milton revised only few sections before finishing.
The First Woman's Rights Exponent credits Saint Birgitta of Sweden as the world’s first apostle of women’s rights. It notes her advocacy for mixed orders and convents to unite monks and nuns, and describes her canonization as driven by her pilgrimages to Rome and Jerusalem and efforts to restore the papacy in Rome.
A Chicago Journal excerpt recalls a youthful romance cut short when a girl, about fourteen, notes how her parents forbade companionship. She describes sneaking outings, church visits, and a final night on the porch when her lover vanished after her father confronted them.
Levy on east half of lot No 1 and south side of lot No 2 in block 41 Reynolds city extending to Mrs W E Weaver and Mrs Ida Goodwins lands. Sold to Jo Schell to satisfy tax lien issued by J J McCants for 1922 state and county taxes. Levy returned by S M Trapp. Dated August 7 1923.
Administrator Louis L. Brown announces public auction of the west half of Lot 115 in the 14th District Taylor County Georgia, part of the Camilla C Holman estate. Sale to occur on the first Tuesday in September 1928 at the Taylor County courthouse between legal hours. Cash only. Dated July 26 1923.
A colonel questions an elderly man named Uncle Bob who applied for a job. Uncle admits he is not smart enough to explain the scriptures and recalls nearly starving while trying to elucidate the meaning of the line about the gospel being free. He suggests some fools believed it meant Ab would not get any salary.
A poem from Chemah Okla celebrating farm women and livestock as financial support. It extols the cow sow and hen as reliable sources of income and household sustenance. The verses praise the farmer's wife for managing feeds, care, and sales to cover mortgage, clothing, and household needs.
The Atlanta Journal announces it now uses the complete twenty four hour AP wire service along with United Press full leased wire. Subscribers are offered daily and Sunday editions with annual, half year and monthly rates. The Daily Journal and Sunday Journal pricing is listed for Atlanta readers.
A list of recommended habits urges readers to rise early retire early eat slowly be graceful punctual fearless polite industrious and speak correctly. It promotes neat appearance self reliance progressive accommodation and thrift over stinginess in brief, a compact exhortation on personal improvement.
The article describes cleaning fur with silver sand for all colors except whites. Place the sand in a dish, insert the fur, and warm slowly in an oven. Rub the sand into the fur until warmed through, then brush out remaining particles. White furs may be cleaned with hot bran using the same method.
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