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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1913
Page
8
The Butler Herald details advertising rates 10 cents per inch per week with plates, local ads 6 cents per line, minimum 25 cents. Obituaries under 200 words published free. extra words charged at a cent per word with guaranteed payment. Published in Butler Georgia as official Taylor County organ.
Butler Georgia reports teachers visiting Savannah doubt married women should teach. Chamberlains Cough Remedy recommended. Editor A S Hardy to be Gainesville postmaster. Americus operator Fox Lightfoot died by self-inflicted injury over whiskey. Obscure moral quotes and local political moves noted. Col Negle Colquitt named Ways and Means clerk. Col Harris expected to head census. Col Lindsay Johnson slated for Shanghai diplomatic post.
After nineteen years of dementia caused by childbirth Mrs Carrie Belle Jordan of Atlanta underwent an operation at the Red Cross hospital a month ago. Her faculties returned instantly and she sought the child, now a married woman with two children. The operation, performed for another ailment, is deemed miraculous.
J P Broyles credits Foley Kidney Pills with curing fifteen years of kidney and bladder troubles. He says they ended a severe backache and painful bladder irregularities and do all they claim. Take the direct road to health by using Foley Kidney Pills for backache, rheumatism, weak kidneys, and bladder issues. Sold by City Drug Store. Adv
The U S House praised Judge Charles B R Crisp on his last day as parliamentary clerk with gifts of a silver platter and a gold watch from Republicans and Democrats alike. Speaker Clark lauded Crisp and reflected on leadership, while Crisp expressed gratitude and recalled decades of service to the House.
Central Railroad announces special travel rates to Atlanta during the Metropolitan Opera Company’s fourth Atlanta session at the Auditorium. Four evenings and three matinees feature Puccini Manon Lescaut Verdi La Traviata Damrosch Cyrano Ponchielli La Gioconda Offenbach Tales of Hoffmann Donizetti Lucia Tosca across Italian English and French. Tickets via Atlanta Music Festival Association and Central of Georgia Railway with mail orders and seat allocation details.
Advertisement notes that persons troubled with partial paralysis are often helped by massaging affected parts with Chamberlain's Liniment. It claims the liniment also relieves rheumatic pains and is for sale by all dealers.
Community notes from Pine Grove recount social visits and church gatherings. Mentions include W M Bush hosting, Risly Heath and Mary Bell Parker as guests, Otis Scott with his companion at church, Joe Culverhouse and Grady Thompson traveling together, Albert Adams and Lathan Waters visiting, Nettie Wilson visiting Tom Bickley and family, Nora Waters hosting Friday preaching, Horace Bryant returning from Cuthbert, Hattie May Byers and her brother at Horeb preaching, with casual asides about local spirits and lines like Come again Patsy and Black Eyes.
Miss Agnes Locke visited her brother Ed Locke last week. Mr and Mrs E F Bone were guests of Rev John Locke and family. Jay Shealy and Timothy Locke visited Norwich. Mrs HC Shealy visited Mrs W W Douglass. School thrives under Mrs J F Taunton. Jay and Thea Shealy attended prayer in Butler. Mrs Mary Jane Theus is sick this week. Clara Cameron and Jim and Murray Cameron were seen Friday and Saturday. Mr H C Shealy cut the first watermelon on March 5 1913.
A vintage household remedy claim promotes Darby’s Prophylactic Fluid as curing cramp colic and nausea, healing cuts and sores, and destroying germs in the sick room. It is advertised for internal and external use at 50 ets per bottle by City Drug Store.
The great southern seed house H. G. Hastings & Co. of Atlanta presents readers with a free collection of flower seed mailed to subscribers. Request the illustrated catalogue by writing today and mention this newspaper. Postage paid. The catalogue also details cash prizes for Corn Slub boys and Hastings’ yielding corn and cotton varieties grown on a 3,000 acre farm.
Two separate public sales in Taylor county Georgia outline property auctions on the first Tuesday in April 1913 and the first Tuesday in April 1913. First sale lists W H Riley and M C Riley property lot 179 in the 24th district of Taylor county with boundaries and court action by Wynn & Robinson. Second sale, administrator J A Matthews offers the Elizabeth Durden lands comprising about 170 acres from parts of lots 174 and 175, bounded by Flint River, Beeland, Casey and Fuller estates.
Delila Gooch has applied for permanent Letters of Administration for the Warren Lockett estate in Taylor County Georgia. Creditors and next of kin are cited to appear at the ordinary's office within the legal time to show cause why administration should not be granted. Witness is A H Riley Ordinary, dated March 3, 1913.
Mrs A R Tabor of Crider Missouri suffered sick headache for about five years until using Chamberlains Tablets. After taking two bottles the headaches vanished, as the pills target a stomach disorder believed to cause the condition. Try them and stay well, from all dealers.
Mrs Helen Longstreet widow of a famed Confederate general and active conservationist plans to enter journalism. Known for raising funds to repay a supposed Sickles defalcation and for her Roosevelt campaign work, she may join the Bull Moose political current and respond to Watson’s publication. Her Catholic faith frames her public stance.
Winnebago Nebraska resident W H Chapman shares his method to cut expenses. He praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for his two children cough relief, claiming it cured their cough after one bottle and saved a doctor's bill. He warns against neglecting serious cold symptoms. The ad lists City Drug Store as the seller.
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