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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
6
The readable fragments hint at a tale of inner worth, longing, and gentleness amid fear. A resilient figure faces a storm or peril, with implied courage and trust tested, while distant references touch on a camel, innocence, and a powerful challenge.
Georgia notes report Augusta surpassed 800000 in Liberty Loans, Waynesboro and Decatur residents subscribing to bonds, Cracking Red Cross efforts in Crawfordville and Barnesville, and a new Macon auditorium project valued at 100000. cantaloupes ship from Colquitt and Bond campaigns drove civic efforts, while trials, pardons, and rail accidents peppered counties including Atlanta, Columbus, and Thomson.
An 1900s style ad touts freezone a ether-based remedy to remove corns and calluses without pain. It claims drops applied directly relieve soreness and loosen the corn or callus that can be lifted away with fingers. The copy emphasizes no irritation, easy use, and availability through drugstores.
A decorative quotation notes that opposition fuels renewal as men rise refreshed by threats. It describes a crisis intimidating the many but welcomed by some as a bride, citing Emerson’s sentiment on bold resilience and social leadership.
Calomel sales decline as Dodson's Liver Tone gains popularity among druggists and customers. Local pharmacists endorse the vegetable remedy as safe and effective for liver sluggishness and constipation, promising refunds if results fail. It is priced at 50 cents a large bottle and touted as easier on the stomach than calomel.
A brief debate questions capital punishment by contrasting it with the overuse of capital letters. The exchange critiques the pattern of capitalizing every other sentence as a sign of pompous rhetoric.
A period pamphlet describes lemon juice mixed with orchard white to create a skin whitening lotion. Strain two lemons into three ounces of orchard white, shake, and bottle for month long use. Applied daily to face neck and arms it may bleach and smooth the skin.
A brief reflection contrasts physical courage that confronts danger with moral courage that defies opinion, noting both shapes a man's bravery in distinct ways.
A Victorian advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole universal remedy for catarrh a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous membranes building constitution and offers a one hundred dollar reward for any failure to cure accompanied by a free sample by mail.
Rev Yandel Collins recounts a near fatal rescue from a damp eight by eight foot corn cellar beneath his mission house at Mu pola Natal. Two Zulu helpers Malusi and Mutyani refused to descend until the missionary went first. The rotten ladder failed and Collins fell into six inches of muck as sewer gas threatened his life. His wife Mary urged the men to fetch a rope, Malusi reached down and pulled him free. Afterward the vault was cleaned out and the hole sealed with tar and cement.
A city nephew meeting his uncle greets him warmly and asks about relatives, then the elder cuts in with a blunt question about money, pulling out his pocketbook. The exchange hints at underlying tension and family dynamics.
An early 20th century advertisement claims phosphates restore beauty and vigor. Dr. Jacobson cites anemia origins in nervous breakdown and promotes Argo-Phosphate tablets as a cure, promising rapid health improvements and broader bodily renewal for nervous dyspepsia and stomach troubles.
Arnold Chaplin argues in the London Times that Napoleon's height is near Darling's five feet seven inches based on post mortem notes by Automarchi and Gouraud. He notes French and English scale differences and shows five pieds deux pouces equals about five feet six inches.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer playful note claims orange blossoms could serve as an anaesthetic, noting a Johns Hopkins professor’s discovery. The quip adds that with enough blossoms, a ceremony could become quite Pavilege in tone.
An Atlanta discovery promises to bleach swarthy complexions using Cocotone Skin Whitener. Test subjects report rapid lightening with a cheap treatment. The ad urges readers to ask their druggist or mail 25 cents for a large package from Coco tone Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
In Taylor County Georgia J H Whatley administrator of Mrs L E V Whatley deceased petitions the court claiming full administration of the estate and cites all persons kindred and creditors to show cause why he should not be discharged and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in July 1917 dated June 6 1917 by A H Riley Ordinary
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