Mrs Bazemore Writes From Oklahoma Letter from Belle Bazemore
Mrs Belle Bazemore of Scullin Oklahoma sends a letter to the editor from June 13 1918 reflecting on The Butler Herald. She shares news from home in Taylor County Georgia and Oklahoma crops weather wartime needs religious appeals and hopes for a Holy Ghost movement. She notes scarce labor cotton prices three dollars a day and plans to visit her son H T Jinks in Hobart Oklahoma.
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Scullin
Oklahoma
Butler Herald
Old Taylor County
Jesus
Georgia
J. M. Jinks
H.T. Jinks
Hobart
Okla
Belle Bazemore
For Sale Six Stand Cotton Gin Outfit in Georgia
Six stand 76 saw all steel Murry Cotton Gin outfit with 100 HP boiler, 75 HP automatic engine, attached to gin with 8-30 American corn mill and wood sawing and splitting machine. Originally $10,000. owner selling cheap due to bad health. Write ALL STEEL GIN CO. Greensboro Ga.
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Boro
Green County
Georgia
All Steel
Murry Cotton Gin Outfit
H. P. Boil
ALL Steel Gin CO
Greensboro
Double Screw Propulsion Improves Control in Boats
Experiments with a single propeller in tandem show small speed gains when two screws are used one behind the other. Rotating the screws in opposite directions or at varying speeds has little effect on speed, though the setup is claimed to offer better vessel control.
Georgia to mobilize ten thousand July army draftees
Georgia prepares for a July call of about ten thousand men from both white and colored registrants. June saw eight thousand enlisted, with four thousand colored and four thousand white already reporting to Camp Gordon. Capt. C A Hope from the provost marshal general's office discusses board standards and exemption efforts. He will also inspect Alabama and Florida offices.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Camp Gordon
Italians Defeat Austrian Armies on Piave Front
Italy reports a decisive breakthrough on the Piave river as Austrian forces retreat from the Montello plateau toward the Venetian plain. Italian patrols and air power harass the retreating troops, with Rome noting heavy Austrian losses and thousands taken prisoner as bridges are destroyed and gun stores left behind.
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New York
Piave
Austrian War Office
Charles
Montello
Rome War Office
Diaz
Victor Emmanuel
Rome
Washingon
Georgia urged to buy War Saving Stamps nationwide
State officials report Georgia ranks last among states in War Saving Stamp sales. Each stamp costs 4.17 in June and earns 4 percent interest, redeemable at five dollars on January 1 1923. Citizens urged to purchase twenty dollars per year, with National War Saving Stamps Day June 28 proclaimed by President Wilson.
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Atlanta
High Richardson
Saving Stamp Committee
Georgia
Uncle Sam
Wilson
Alredy
Son Praises Conducting Balancing On The Box
The assistant concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony asks his four year old son how he enjoyed a performance he conducted. The boy replies that he watched his father balance on the podium for two hours and did not fall off the box.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
A Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles
Texas Wonder claims to dissolve gravels cure diabetes and rheumatic irregularities of the kidneys and bladder for men and women. It supposedly regulates bladder issues in children and is available by mail for $1.00 after purchase from druggists.
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Texas Wonder
F. W. Hall
Olive Street
St. Louis
Chinese Postal Service era grows to giant system
Sir Robert Hart began the customs postal service and it has expanded into a vast network. About 350 million letters were carried in one year making it the most extensive and cheapest system in the world. A letter to any part of China costs about a cent and a half regardless of route or courier.
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Chinese Postal Service
Sir Robert Hart
Customs Postal Service
China
Qualities of Head and Heart
A brief aphorism notes that intellect should yield to intuition. Bronson Alcott's line suggests the heart alone can truly sense what is right, guiding judgment beyond reason. The quote reflects transcendental emphasis on inner moral insight.
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Bronson Alcott
DOES THIS FIT YOU
A fragment quotes Herbert Hoo arguing against extortionate profits to spur maximum war effort. He contends adopting that theory would brand Americans as materialistic avaricious venal globally. The statement reflects wartime rhetoric on economic policy.
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Herbert Hoo
Wheat restraints urged to avert disaster for peaches
Herbert C. Hoover declares severe wheat limits essential as June supplies show 56 million bushels total with 30 million exported leaving 26 million for two months. Normal demand exceeds 40 million monthly, so home use must shrink to about one third. Ice plant limits threaten peach refrigeration amid higher demand. Dr. A M Soule bans cracked ice in drinks. Food control focuses on wartime Atlantic shipments.
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Herbert C. Hoover
United States
The
Food Administration
A. M. Soule
Food Reserve Proposed to Stabilize Markets
In Washington a federal official urged building a national food reserve as a precaution if the harvest is ample. The plan, supported by the British Ministry of Food for Great Britain, would stabilize prices and ensure steady supply regardless of submarine disruptions.
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Washington
Ministry of Food
Great Britain
Sugar Certificate Rule Hits Fountain Operators Hard
Food administrator enforces sugar procurement certificates for manufacturers and dealers. Those who bypass face penalties. In the past week nearly a hundred fountain men were fined from 25 to 200 dollars.
Pledges to Aid Food Administration From Diverse Groups
Multiple organizations nationwide pledge support to the Food Administration. The Northwest Tractor Trade Association meeting in Minneapolis on May 27 vows to help win the war by supplying machinery to boost crop output. Others include the Retail Merchants Association of South Dakota, Marian Club of Menominee, National Livestock Exchange, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace, Grand River Masonic Lodge in Macksburg, Masonic Lodge No. 366 in Atlanta, Illinois Grain Dealers Association, Presbyterian Sunday School of Holt, citizens of Josephine County Oregon, and Ferndale Washington Methodist Ladies Society. The Ferndale group will avoid wheat at meetings and practice strict food economy with substitutes for overseas needs.
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United States Food Administration
Northwest Tractor Trade Association
Minneapolis
Retail Merchants’ Association of
South Dakota
The
Food Administration
Marian Club
Menominee
Mich
National Livestock Exchange
Chicago
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace
South Haven
Grand River Masonic Lodge
Macksburg
Masonic Lodge
Atlanta
Illinois Grain Dealers’ Association
Presbyterian Sunday School of
Holt
Josephine County
Oregon
Ferndale Washington, Methodist Ladies’ Society
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Pleasants
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Augusta
Army
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Columbia County
Watkinsville
J. M. McRee
L. H. Akin
Miss Warnie Edge
McRee
Akin
Edge
Metcalfe
Thomasville
Metecalfe
Yargan Company
Yargan Naval Stores Company of
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Ruskin
Waycross
W. U
Wright
Western Union Telegraph Company
Atlantian
Daniels Atlanta
Harry R. Chambers
Naval Armed Guard
Daniels
Chambers
Monroe County
Macon
Monroe
Federal Good Roads Bureau
Judge Patterson
Georgia Highway Commission
Federal Bureau
Americus
B. G. Shannon
F. A. Thomas
J. R. Williams
Easterlin Brothers
Methyin Orchard Company
Raymond
Smithwick Orchard Company
John Thompson
Troup Country
W. W. Shiney
Bart Goodwin
Pope County
Dade County
War Department
Joel B. Mallett
Georgia Military Departtment
Department of Justice
Dade
Cartersville
S. W. McCabie
Coffee County
Douglas
Georgia Tobacco
E. C. Yellowly
Northern District of
National Electric Light Association
Fitzgerald
Dublin
W.S.S
the Herald
France
Taylor County
U. S
Navy
Herald
Texas
North America
Atlantic
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