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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
2
Officials note airmen and reserve corps growth while wartime talk dominates editorials. The piece cites European conflict projections, food control debates, and Liberty Bonds plans alongside local salaries changes and public notices. It closes with a sardonic nudge about reader engagement and community chatter.
The Commerce News editor Paul Harber married May Hall Wilson of Atlanta on Wednesday night of last week. The Observer editorial page is expected to show renewed splendor following the ceremony.
Adjutant General J Van Holt Nash reports final state wide registration at 231 407 about 91 percent of the 254 873 government forecast. In separate items, Columbus ex clerk Henry Gammon pleads guilty to embezzlement and receives two years in prison.
Capt Hobson argues for spending a billion dollars on an enlarged navy citing British boasts that their fleet will soon exceed all others. He warns such power could coerce the United States and calls for purchasing British warships in exchange for American merchant ships to aid the Allies.
The damp weather brings rheumatic pains for many during spring. Relief may come from applying Chamberlains Ointment which is available widely.
A historical verse exhorts divine aid for a nation in war. The speaker calls on God to keep the cause just and to grant victory, framing faith as essential to perseverance amid carnage and the demand for prayer that God’s kingdom come.
The New York Times notes a silver lining in trade despite submarine warfare. April exports rose to 530 million dollars, with a twelve month total over 6 billion, while imports reached 254 million, the highest in six years except one month. New York port data show exports up and shipments to Europe increasing despite the blockade, and British ship losses declining after destroyers arrived.
The Commerce News notes a critique from farmers who see prices rising from a dollar for both news and meal to a dollar fifty for the news while meal costs two dollars per year, prompting protests over the cost of living.
The article explains that constipation blocks the bowel’s natural sewerage, causing absorption of poisons that dulls the mind and hinders digestion. It promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a quick relief available everywhere.
The article notes a calm on battlefronts with no decisive Allied gains and Russia seeking internal reforms and peace to restore government. It highlights the American commission in Petrograd as a hopeful factor and mentions a subsidence of the submarine scare. US draft registration reaches ten million potential soldiers.
The piece urges Americans to save through Liberty Loan Bonds small denominations allow wage earners to start saving with weekly or monthly payments. It highlights security tax free interest and potential future premiums while urging a patriotic duty and habit of saving for the unknown postwar era.
The Texas Wonder claims to dissolve gravels cure diabetes and rheumatism and regulate bladder issues in men and women and in children. It promises a two month treatment for one dollar and offers sworn testimonials from Dr. F W Hall of St. Louis for mail order with druggist sales.
J H Ae administrator of the estate of Mrs L V Whatley deceased requests discharge. The court cites all interested parties to show cause why letters of dismission should not be issued on the first Monday in July 1917. Dated June 6 1917. A H Riley ordinary.
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