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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
6
A series of legal actions examine the constitutionality of the Highway Appropriation Act. Courts consider whether the act complies with constitutional provisions and limits government funding. The petitions challenge allocations and contemplate potential remedies or invalidation.
Governor Dorsey signs a warrant for thirty nine thousand dollars, but Comptroller Wright disapproves citing unconstitutionality of the appropriation feature. Mandamus seeks payment as the case heads toward the Supreme Court. In Brunswick two drownings occur on St Simons Island with a near rescue by a steamer. A NAACP annual meeting opens in Atlanta with 3000 attendees and leaders pledging race progress. Reunion of the Second Division to be held in Atlanta with a memorial service and parades. The U S S McCall sinks the Isondega after tide shifts at Savannah docks. Isondega formerly the Evelyn linked to Harry K Thaw.
State Comptroller William A Wright reports a 1920 deficit of 60682463 in the balance of estimated revenues against appropriations. Appropriations total 9704616.50 while estimated revenues are 846778719. He notes expected property value increases could raise revenues by 1092759 with surplus covering new appropriations. A special train of 140 business leaders toured the Middle West ending in Atlanta with a banquet for Southeast port commerce interests.
In Atlanta May 29 a socialists committee informed Eugene V. Debs of his presidential nomination. The event drew about fifteen attendees including seven socialists and reporters while fellow prisoner Joe Caldwell of Rhode Island attended and the prison staff offered full courtesy.
A Senate foreign relations subcommittee urges that armed intervention should occur if Mexican rulers show instability or hostility to Americans. If a stable regime is formed, full recognition and financial aid are recommended but only after a treaty secures protections for Americans including religious and educational rights and a binding claims commission for damages.
Sir Auckland Geddes told graduates at George Washington University that the United States must avoid entanglements in Europe. He warned of a looming storm in Europe, with social upheaval and industrial unrest spreading to the American press and society.
The prose describes two American elms forming a natural arch with interlaced branches and fluttering capitals of foliage. A long vista reveals a temple of living trees, surpassing stone structures in beauty, where lofty jets of greenery meet in graceful curves.
A 100 dollar reward offer claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh. It asserts 35 years of use, blood bloodstream action, and healing of mucous surfaces. Encourages starting treatment, sending for testimonials, and notes Toledo based F. J. Cheney & Co with 76 cent price through druggists.
The third finger bears the engagement and wedding rings yet is anatomically weaker of the ten. It requires musicians to practice twice as much as the others because the extensor tendon in the third finger crosses with that of the second, reducing strength.
Laura Jane often feeds chickens with her mother and finds feathers at the park. One day no feather appears and she exclaims that the chickens did not lay a feather today.
A reflection contrasts two human drives. One group eager to give and enrich others, to bless and uplift. The other pursues self gain, grasping only for personal advantage.
A new study reports a creeping movement of the Himalayas toward the south, causing a crumpling of the Siwalik hills. Surveys reveal the real facts behind this dramatic geologic phenomenon.
A historical note links Napoleonic conscription to mass wars and later mass mobilization. Separately a report cites pearls found in tripe from the United States, noting the pearls were soft and embedded in cysts on mucous surfaces, per Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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