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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
4
A reflective note urges restraint against mean acts and unkind words. It calls readers to imagine future consequences, prompting careful speech and generosity rather than grasping or selfish behavior. The piece emphasizes forethought and ethical discretion.
An old advertisement touts a catarrh remedy claiming cures via assorted tonics and bial blends. The copy mentions a price of $2.00 and references Toledo as part of the distribution, alongside pills for constipation.
The Atlanta Journal explains it now uses the full twenty four hour Associated Press wire service along with United Press leased wire, delivering news day and night. Subscriptions detailed include Daily Journal and Semi Weekly editions with annual and shorter terms.
J L Rustin administrator seeks court permission to sell lands of the Frances E Austin estate for distribution. The petition will be heard at the Court of Ordinary in January 1920. December 1, 1919.
The article notes boxwood imported from Turkey is extremely costly for engravers. Prices range from four tenths to ten cents per square inch for top grades. A wagon load would cost thousands of dollars and bead strings of boxwood would command high prices.
The Contentity Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church South will care for Belgian and Serbian orphans. A large home near Brussels called Uccloe will house hundreds. Belgrade and Faversham homes will care for underfed orphans with staff from Scotland. Relief stations planned at Brussels Ypres Saint Quentin Montdidier Belgrade. The church has 5 million dollars for this effort and seeks more staff to be sent abroad.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South becomes the first Christian denomination to send workers to Palestine since General Allenby’s occupancy. Five colporteurs have been dispatched by the Centenary European Commission led by Bishop James Atkins and Dr. W. B. Beauchamp, with five more to follow. They will itinerate, not establish stations, distributing Bibles and literature printed in native dialects through Nile Press in Egypt. Under Allenby, religious freedom permits such missionary activity in the Holy Land.
A variety of woodpeckers inhabit California with a diet centered on acorns. They store provender by boring holes in the bark of white oak and redwood trees and tapping kernels in end first, using their bills to fit the small holes.
The Chinese postal service, begun by Sir Robert Bart as the customs post, has grown into a vast system carrying over 350,000,000 letters annually. It is noted as the most extensive and cheapest in the world with deliveries to any part of China for about a cent and a half whether by tail, horse, or foot courier.
Switzerland taps about 700 000 of the 7 200 000 Wize power provided by its streams, illustrating the nation’s unusually high dependence on water power compared to other countries.
In a playful moment during a Tiger event, Doss jokes with Agi about affection while noting her likely appreciation of the lighthearted ribbing from the crowd. The exchange captures a casual, upbeat mood around the team.
The London Daily Chronicle reports Empress Eugenie hid for decades the German letter that doomed Alsace Lorraine. She reportedly revealed the event only in Bernstorff papers a dozen years ago, showing Spartan resolve to surrender nothing. Her silence is described as a great renunciation. Lord Cowley knew, but she kept the world in the dark for half a century.
Lizzy Lizard asks what drives him to leave his old den while Percy Prairie Dog worries about the road. They fear tire repair crews and the dangers of traffic as they seek a safer home away from passing cars.
A new report details London's park food cultivation outcomes. In three parks 79 acres of oats earned 550 dollars, vegetables produced 600 dollars in profit, while a 75 acre oats crop incurred a 1900 dollar loss, attributed to opening crop effects and longer term plans.
Patience asks about her brother in the war and Patrice confirms he’s in the trenches. The dialogue jokes that he forgot coat hangers and a trouser creaser, and Patience plans to send them to him that day.
A Birmingham Age-Herald snippet shows a dialogue where one asks to borrow $50 briefly and the response denies any chance of Nicholas Romanoff returning. The exchange ends with a curt farewell.
A tense exchange recalls a plan to send 5,000 cigars of the same brand to the front. One speaker questions how to ensure the cigars reach allied troops while defying enemy actions.
An old man Spillikens recalls a letter from his son describing frontline actions in France. The speaker questions the veracity of the account and expresses curiosity about the truth behind the tale.
An ad-like claim extols Freezone as a sensational Cincinnati discovery that instantly relieves corns and calls for painless removal. A small bottle costs only a few cents at drug stores and works on hard and soft corns as well as those between the toes.
The sheriff will sell before the Taylor County courthouse door on the first Tuesday in January 1920 within legal hours eight shares of Farmers and Merchants Bank Butler stock numbers 9 and 72. The property is levied upon as the property of Mrs W B Wilson to satisfy a superior court fi fa in favor of Mrs Bertha Wilson of Butler. Notice given as required by law. Kept in possession of defendant in fi fa. J R Beeland Sheriff.
The Lily of France known as Iris Florentina has adorned banners shields and arms and influenced both armies and individuals. It remains a national emblem though described here as a symbol of a lost cause.
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