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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1914
Page
4
A publishable notice lists rates for display and classified ads including page, half page, per line, and legal notice prices. It includes prohibitions on liquor ads and some humorous, skeptical, and promotional quips from various authors and personalities, plus short notes on women's suffrage in Louisiana, industrial prosperity forecasts, and a Boston man’s wilderness stunt plan.
Advertising drives business and keeps customers engaged. Merchants who fail to advertise in print lose visibility as readers seek wares in lively papers. A man who promotes offerings through frequent ads gains advantage over rivals with no ad presence.
A country man in a large city gives up his seat to an elderly woman on a crowded afternoon car while a city gentleman ignores her. The piece ends with an advertisement claim for Chamberlain's Liniment promising relief from rheumatism after a single application.
The Atlanta Georgian reports the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad has been satisfactorily adjusted and will be put in efficient working order immediately. The reorganization promises far more efficient service along its right of way and a revitalized railroad, linking Atlanta and Birmingham with the coast and South Georgia, a vital artery of commerce. Local citizens are urged to support this renewed enterprise to ensure mutual benefit and prosperity.
A man once lived in a country town and built wealth from the town’s people. He sent all purchases to the city, criticized every resident, and hated both others and himself. Rich yet friendless, he died and was promptly forgotten. His name remains unknown.
The Texas Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder ailments in men and women, dissolves gravel, treats diabetes, back pain, rheumatism, and regulates bladder issues in children. If not sold locally, mail order available with two months per bottle. Dr. E W Hall address listed in St Louis. Sold by all druggists.
Quote from Thomas C Blaisdell extols education as learning promptness, thoughtfulness, kindness, and purity through mind and spirit. It defines education as service over selfishness, and courage in doing what is right, implanting good habits and twenty four carat character, amidst a fragment noting Chicago’s hen con a city context.
The Kansas Industrialist urges village improvement work for better towns with citizen and city collaboration. Proposals include cleanup days, plantings, pruning, insect control, painting, and paving. A village improvement society could oversee flower shows, lectures, and school grounds beautification under municipal control.
University of Illinois appoints Dr. Robert E. Hieronymus as the state adviser to travel to communities. The program aims to develop internal capabilities for welfare, promote vocational education, and enlist local schools, agricultural, commercial, social, and civic groups in betterment efforts.
Rabbi Abram Simon spoke on Beauty as the need of America, comparing growth of people to a blade of grass. He urged Americans to beautify everything, banish dirt and ugliness, and reduce crowded, filthy districts amid manufacturing cities.
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