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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
4
The Butler Georgia newspaper notes the town’s growth needs and calls for civic participation. It mocks wartime legal scrapping, contemplates universal energy transport, and laments rising war prices while urging prudent personal finances and neighborly cooperation.
The article notes that paying the Boy Scouts associate membership fee is a contribution to the nation's future and a sign of citizenship. It mentions Senator Hoke Smith suffering the death of his wife in Atlanta after a two week illness. Mrs. Smith was a daughter of General T. R. Cobb and related to Judge Joseph Henry Lakins through her mother.
The Butler area ships Georgia peaches marking the season with mention of Benns while Dahlonega notes tomato plant shipments from Tifton. Local editors discuss vanity and civic effort, urging towns to unite to build business and benefit the community.
The fragmentary text weaves a meadow of surnames towns and individuals tied to Monroe and nearby districts. It references editors writers and local figures such as Mari etta Journal Howell Neal and Reed and hints at social events and oratory linked to Eastman j and Peebles in a rural community setting.
A reader notes a lingering bad taste after meals and questions remedies including Chamberlain's tablets or similar tonics. The column advises cautious use, suggests consulting a physician for prolonged symptoms, and praises moderation in self treatment.
An Albany Herald report warns that a locally brewed moonshine described as a potent “stump licker” uses dangerous ingredients like lye and carbolic acid. It recounts a man’s violent reactions after drinking and ties the liquor to domestic harm, jail, and death, urging severe punishment for makers.
Governors proclamation supports laborers right to unionize and cooperate. Each worker may choose to join a union or work independently, with state backing to safeguard these principles.
A historical column urges farm parents to judge life by the quality of their children not land or wealth. It stresses training, books, music, clubs, discipline by love, and daily example to foster high character, industry, and recreation, noting farm fathers have unique opportunities.
Reflections on postwar treaties note German rigidity and Allied refusals while suggesting measured concessions. The British and American delegations discuss easing terms, France holds firm, and the piece argues concessions should serve global interests to prevent future hate and another war.
An advertisement touts Texas Wonder for kidney and bladder ailments with mail order option and testimonials. The Macon County Citizen at Oglethorpe shows improved editing and formatting under Editor Walton after absorbing the Rebecca Appeal, now suspending the Appeal and merging with the Citizen.
65 year old Meadowsville resident Mrs Cynthia Higginbotham says Black Draught improved her constipation and digestion after a few doses. The ad claims Black-Draught has 70 years of use and promotes cleansing the system for stomach liver and bowels with a 25 cent price per package and one cent per dose.
An exhibit showcases generosity tied to securing economic gains for allied powers, emphasizing terms favorable to wartime allies and the broader impact on international trade and postwar recovery.
Atlanta observers warn that labor agitators threaten peace and voter turnout while lawmakers urge Georgia to empower state control over public utilities through the railroad commission. They argue the legislature must act to prevent outside influence from shaping city politics amid the strike era.
In Atlanta Georgia Presbyterians from across the South fill hotels and homes for the Laymen’s Missionary Movement and the Southern Presbyterian Woman’s Auxiliary. The gathering, second only to a recent denomination convention, draws thousands and features international speakers at the Baptist Tabernacle. Delegates praise the event as epoch-making in Southern Presbyterianism.
An old advertisement touts a freckle remover using lemon juice and orchard white in a quarter pint lotion. It instructs to shake two lemons with three ounces of orchard white, massage daily on face neck arms and hands, promising disappearance of freckles and blemishes and brighter skin at low cost. It asserts the recipe is harmless.
The Albany Herald voices fatigue with frequent drives by well meaning patriots. It warns that another drive will likely begin soon but asserts the paper has had enough of these drives for a while.
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