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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1930
Page
5
A letter argues fourteen-year sentence for a teen offender is excessive and questions release readiness. It urges state custody reform, humane training, collective work, and education to prevent criminal relapse, suggesting indefinite restriction if release is unsafe.
The Route Three page recounts frustration with the highway board for Jet 8 contract paving only four miles between Griffin and ville. The unpaved stretch, seen as critical for the direct north to Florida route through Georgia, prompts calls from Upson Taylor and Schley counties for stronger action and better handling of the remaining mile gap.
An essay urges personal vacations from work and family to recharge. It argues many so called breaks fail because people follow fashions rather than needs, and calls for at least one annual period where each person orders their life as they wish. The piece counsels a clearer separation from duties to restore energy and perspective.
The text presents a personal reflection about telling friends, potential consultation with an alienist, and a plan to join a tribe and change behavior, with unusual phrases and unclear context.
Americus, July 7. W Black a Negro was held without bail to await grand jury action on a murder charge. He is accused of killing E K Hobbs, a Sumter merchant, in his Concord store the night of April 30. Pender Merchant, linked to the case, is in custody but whereabouts unrevealed. A confessed statement relayed by Dudley Williams is cited as principal evidence.
Fire at the freight office of the A B C railroad destroyed the freight office building over 150 yards of loading platforms and warehouse and 17 loaded box cars. Yard crews from Bellwood yards aided quickly but the flames reached the offices before hoses could be deployed. Nightwatchman W G Smith alerted the fire department as smoke poured from the fading platform.
Atlanta July 7 Attorney Wim S. Howard arranged with the state prison commission for another hearing on Rob E H Burns petition for pardon or parole. Burns, who escaped from a Georgia chain gang while serving seven years for an Atlanta hold up, went to Chicago, became editor of a civil magazine, and now seeks release after three years at large. The rehearing is set before the commission on Wednesday.
Star Reporter Russell Owen, famed for accompanying Byrd to the South Pole, was acclaimed the greatest reporter by American newspaper workers at a dinner in his honor.
Chicago readers witnessed the end of the worlds longest sustained flight as John and Kenneth Hunter landed at Sky Harbor after 568 hours 41 minutes and 80 seconds aboard the City of Chicago The endurance flight began June 11 1930 and faced a clogged filter and overheating engine before a final uninterruptible stretch impressed thousands with the 568 hour mark aboard the Stinson Detroiter monoplane
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