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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1923
Page
7
A hostess notes that candles persist in households as a reliable light source when fuses fail and gas jets are shut off. While decorative candles may fade, candlelight endures for practical emergencies and soft ambience in gatherings.
A sermon urges believers to fulfill divine calls by personal preparation and active witness. It argues that God uses human agents as instruments, cites John the Baptist, Luther, and the Wesleys, and warns that salvation requires repentance, faith, and faithful preaching. The piece emphasizes urgent spiritual awakening for America and stresses personal duty over waiting for God.
A New York Sun riff on dog style contrasts Park Avenue pampered poodles with tenement dogs. It notes shifts from Boston bulls to Airedales to wire-haired terriers and observes uniform small curly-haired poodles whose coats bear soot from winter furnaces.
An American explorer describes the winter Arctic as not silent but alive with ice movement. The ice foot cracks and snaps in a chorus likened to singing voices, trains, sledging parties, and distant animal steps, offering a haunting still night allure according to the Washington Star.
A correspondent cites two sample passages from a small Oxford Press book edited by Blackwell and Makower. The notes explain Phi Beta Kappa as a Greek motto society and define Cape Cod as the 65 mile long peninsula ending at its promontory in Massachusetts.
In a church morning service, a boy named Nt Exactly Piety sat with clasped hands and bowed heads, earning his mother’s pride. On the walk home she praised his devout demeanor, noting his attentive and respectful bearing as the lengthy prayer concluded.
Natives elevate their dead on pedestals with elaborate rites for respected chiefs. Belief holds each person has a ghost active in life after death. Sometimes cremation occurs and food is placed nearby to pass behind these burial places.
In a severe electrical storm eight miles from Hazlehurst Georgia on August 13 two Black youths died after taking shelter under a shed while hauling corn. Arthur Thornton was severely burned and in serious condition along with several others injured. a mule was struck and a second injured during the incident.
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