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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1930
Page
8
Long list of Georgia items includes W V Garner celebrated as a highly esteemed Upson county citizen turning 100 today. George L Keen buys stake in Macon Hotel Southland with C L Liffey. Various regional news on politics, crime, deaths, and local developments follow.
A first person sea tale recounts a desperate struggle aboard Hispaniola. Jim fights Hands as the ship roles and both men tumble into scuppers. Reprimed pistols fire in a bid for escape, ending with Hands plunging overboard.
Fragmentary text from a Shakespearean song section under a greenwood tree mentions an observer and contrasts a lover of nature with an enemy facing winter and rough weather. The passage references ambition, merriment, and the sun’s food, implying thematic contrasts between ease and hardship.
The speaker journeys through hills and dales seeking fairy favors. Swifter than the moon, he serves the Fairy Queen and toys with dewdrops and cowslip pensions, noting ruby freckles and the fairy attendants in gold coats. He vows to seek pearls in each cowslip ear.
A fragment from Measure for Measure echoes with Take those lips away and eyes that mislead the morn, yet kisses return as seals of love once fat sealed in gain and sealed in vain, reflecting longing and repeated vows.
E Steed and Mrs Steed hosted a formal dinner praising the Bar Association. Judge Adams defended Justice of the Peace courts as foundational to Georgia law, while Col Beeland and Col Wallace offered bon mots and tributes. Mrs Steed expressed gratitude for the evening’s compliments and hospitality.
Statesboro Ga Jan 17 Quarl G Aaron 20 whose mother and father died in accidents at his hands was found shot to death in his home at Aaron station near Statesboro A rifle lay beside him Family message gave no details but said he had taken his life Eleven years earlier Aaron started a machinery in a gun and his father was killed accidentally Two years ago the youth was driving a car involved in a crash that crushed his mother to death
Atlanta January 19 The Voice of the South radiophone station WSB plans a bold expansion with a new 6000 watt transmitter and luxurious studios on the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel tenth floor to be christened February 8. The National Broadcasting Company will broadcast an hourlong program that evening as a tribute to the event featuring top national artists and executives M H Aylesworth and George F McGlelland coordinating this major southern broadcast milestone.
Adrian Bias and Childres wounded as Dana Bias and Roland LaLone Watson Moulthorpe Leo Landry flee from West Virginia prison escape. Convicts shot at posse. bloodhounds used. 150 officers and Jacksonville detective pursuit ends with capture near swamp after overnight siege.
In Sycamore Georgia a lovers quarrel led to a shooting. Widdon was wounded in the head and disarmed the girl before tourists passed by and took her to Ashburn for custody of the sheriff. Widdon drove home and collapsed, near Cordele hospital doctors expect recovery barring complications. The woman, Miss Odom, has not spoken. Officers say Widdon planned to marry another. he is married to Mrs Viola Nash Widdon whose divorce is pending.
The line expresses a hopeful view that human decline can lead to progress. It frames the fall of man as a catalyst for improvement rather than a final ruin, suggesting perseverance and uplift emerge from adversity.
The article outlines the Compulsory Education Law requiring parents and guardians to enroll and ensure attendance of children aged 8 to 14 in public schools. It details exemptions for completed grade 7, farming needs, and doctor-approved absences, plus penalties up to $10 for first offenses and $20 for subsequent offenses. It also covers enforcement duties of boards, principals, and attendance officers, with procedures for notices and bonds to ensure compliance.
Men are invited to start a Rawleigh enterprise with no experience or capital. Over 7,000 already began, reporting annual business opportunities worth $18,000. Everything supplied, including retail food products, soap, and toilet preparations. The program claims strong support and large resources from American, Canadian, and Australian industries, with 40 years of operation.
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