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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1923
Page
6
Reports from Scene describe a mail train crossing a bridge in slow speed due to rain. The bridge abutments failed under weight causing the train to overturn except for the Pullman. A relief train with doctors and nurses aided the injured and passengers were taken to Fitzgerald Hospital or discharged after arrival.
A confused report tells of a person named Aly and Indy on a street when a dog charged, knocking Joy. A bystander asks if the dog hurt her, she replies she was a tin sir to its tik, implying no serious harm and a puzzling outcome.
The South Atlantic Ports column notes wide support from farmers bankers and business leaders in Georgia for a constitutional amendment to authorize a 15 million bond issue. It would fund state owned deep water terminals including warehouses docks and rail tracks to vitalize Southeast commerce. Representative Arnold predicts several states may repeal Prohibition laws this year reducing conflicts with federal enforcement. The Georgia legislature opens June 27 for a fifty day session.
A Swazi companion Ibijan and I swap attire to prove brotherhood yet tension rises. Sibijaan orders and sulks as a tribal quarrel erupts over trousers with wounds and a stabbing. The conflict ends with the narrator retaining the corduroys despite injuries.
An Inland town newspaper recounts a distant flood and a former resident who was praised for heroic acts. The man deflects credit, saying he only hauled out three maidens who were too small and threw them back in, downplaying any grand heroism.
The first nugget found by Marshall the California gold discoverer was worth 50 rents with the second at 5 dollars. A soldier in Stevenson's regiment found the first large nugget weighing 20 to 25 pounds in a stream. Four miners guarded a magnificent lump taken to San Francisco and then to the eastern states for exhibition, where disputes and lawsuits ate into the profits.
Jonathan Goble, an American marine and later a pioneer missionary to Japan, faced poverty during the Civil War. To support himself and aid his ailing wife, he taught Japanese artisans to craft leather shoes and helped a native wheelwright adapt a perambulator into a man powered carriage, contrasting with basha, horse, and steam power.
Aquamarine, a rising member of the beryl family, is found in North Carolina as the National Museum collection shows. Connecticut, Maine and Massachusetts also yield aquamarines though quantities are undecided. Some stones from these states rival Brazil and Ceylon in beauty. Pink and golden beryls from Connecticut, Maine and New England echo rare colors seen beyond natural Brazil or Russia.
Ford C. Frick retells an Indigenous creation legend from the Arapaho source noting that the Manitou once ruled a sunlit world and punished hubris by withdrawing the sun. After a season of famine, two chiefs prayed, the sun returned, and the winter cycle began. The tale explains annual winter as a divine warning and urges preparation. The piece cites widespread tribal variants across Arapaho, Iroquois, Illini, Cherokee, and Dakota communities.
A southern Californian crafts seductive images of his end of the state but the Honoluran from the north Pacific proves sharper. A San Francisco drummer stayed a month and on the homeward-bound steamer was humiliated with “less” around his neck and singing. He cried and forgot his wife's first name.
A fortune teller’s claim about birthright to command provokes sharp quarrel between a husband and wife over spending and belief in fate. The wife resists continued belief and expenditure on such predictions amid tension.
A humorous piece on the burdens of small town editors and readers. It recalls two letters sent to a editor, one from a father asking how to raise twins and another from a farmer asking about grasshoppers. The editor inadvertently matched wrong envelopes, prompting unsafe comedic replies from the letters. The Philadelphia Public Ledger cites the tale as an ironic look at editorial omniscience.
In a New Orleans Times-Picayune recount from a Panama Limited passenger car a sleeping passenger in berth No 8 is awoken by a loud snore. A bell rings and a porter is pressed into action as the irate traveler searches for the source of the disturbance.
An 1851 Sonora California tale recalls a man injuring his toe on a stone only to discover gold there, later worth thousands, and another resident finding a 35 pound nugget after a rain. The two events, though humorous and rough in language, highlight sudden fortune from gold.
W W Coblentz and C Lamp land measure the ratio of reflected energy to energy re radiated after absorption using a water cell in the light path from the planet. A delicate thermocouple detects heat from a distant tallow candle to compare with and without the water cell, defining water cell transmission.
The flag should be flown on Lincoln’s birthday February 12 and Washington’s birthday February 22 as well as on Mother's day the second Sunday in May Memorial day May 30 Flag day June 14 Independence day July 4 Armistice day November 11 and many local patriotic anniversaries. On these days it should be hoisted at full mast except Memorial day when it is at half mast until noon then raised to the top until sunset. Before placing at half mast it must be hoisted to the top then lowered to half mast.
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