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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1918
Page
8
An elderly writer recalls Civil War memories, old rifles, and marched cadences, contrasting past battlefields with today’s dry land and sparse stock in Texas. The piece weaves wartime nostalgia with rural updates from Maud and nearby towns, noting weather, illness, arrivals, and local care.
The Wesley community reports Friday night winds and Saturday freeze. several pupils miss school due to a measles outbreak. Local residents travel between Butler Howard Prattsburg and Five Points as others visit family. Several are ill, including Lewis Spinks with pneumonia, and grain crops are small due to cold weather.
Athens Georgia reports a statewide program to convert every farm into war production sites. The plan, led by the State Department of Agriculture under a federal food administrator, seeks home munitions output and farm diversification to support war efforts.
A northbound passenger train wreck near Bremond Texas at 3 25 am leaves multiple dead and many injured. Rescue workers with torches found chaotic scenes as six cars collided and crushed passengers. Victims include J L Hall of Georgia and several Texas and Oklahoma residents.
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey praises John W. Ham and the State Council of Defense for the coal probe. He credits Ham and associates with public-spirited effort and anticipates benefits from vigorous administration.
Mrs Barnes of Charleston Illinois praises Chamberlain's Tablets for biliousness as a mild pleasant laxative. She notes she never found anything so good and adds her brother also used them with satisfactory results.
A concise observation compares the thumb to facial features, asserting it reveals a person’s natural strength or weakness of character and serves as an unfailing index of personality reflected in the hand.
In Taylor county today Hardwick is seen as likely to win a county election with Harris and Shaw tied for second place. The Americas Times Recorder telegram noted a favorable view of Hardwick’s strength while expressing hope for a shift before the election.
An old advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment as a fast penetrating liquid for strains sprains and muscle soreness. It claims no skin staining or pore clogging and targets chronic aches neuralgia gout lumbago grippe and post work pains with rapid relief.
A seven year old girl named Dorothy longs for childhood days as she notices her younger sister and brother heading to a May day in the yard. After a late breakfast and slow mornings, she recalls youth and laments the present pace before school.
The article notes the expression "He who may read" is not in the Bible in that form though it is drawn from scripture. It cites Habakkuk II 2 stating the Lord tells to write the vision plainly so that one may run who reads it.
The text argues perpetual motion is impossible outside divine power, describing humanity's futile pursuit as a vain quest and a path to failure and sometimes insanity. It frames perpetual motion as a longstanding myth rather than a scientific reality.
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