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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
9
The Department of Agriculture urges higher potato consumption to outpace enemy nutrition. It notes per capita weekly use by country, claims potatoes are plentiful and cheaper, and urges Americans to replace bread with potatoes to support the war effort.
The United States Food Administration urges every citizen to observe amended rules due to critical wheat shortage. Make every day and meal wheatless, avoid wheat unless health requires it, substitute meats, potatoes, vegetables, fruits, dairy, and other cereals. Meatless and porkless days suspended. no food restrictions besides wheat, and urge not to waste food.
In Opinion A-56 the rule limits resales of fresh eggs between dealer classes. A jobber cannot sell to a wholesaler and a retailer cannot sell to a wholesaler. A country retail merchant buying eggs from a farmer is not a retailer and may sell to anyone.
Lyonnaise Potatoes use three tablespoons fat with one small onion and three cold boiled potatoes sliced, salted and peppered, mixed with onion and fat, browned, folded like an omelet and plated hot. Baked Potatoes require smooth medium potatoes scrubbed and baked forty minutes, skin loosened to vent steam, then served promptly.
A statewide labor survey will be conducted March 28 29 and 30 in Georgia with students teachers and county superintendents aiding. J E Bodenhamer of Atlanta Farm Help Specialist will transmit findings to Washington aiming to ease labor shortages in agriculture while boys join the United States Boys Working Reserve under leadership of J K Giles. Dr Andrew M Soule at the College of Agriculture supervises the effort noting home servant adjustments and merchant plans to free staff for garden work.
Dr C A Pyle state college field veterinarian urges immunizing the entire herd and following with booster doses during hog cholera outbreaks. Vaccination uses virus by qualified vets on pure breds. serum aids outbreaks but has temporary effect. Evacuate sick hogs and clean facilities, burn waste, spread manure, drain water, and disinfect stables and runways.
An old advertising warning warns against calomel a mercury laxative that can ruin a day. It touts Judson’s Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative that won’t irritate the stomach or cause a next day aftereffect. It also mentions Dodson’s as harmless for children and easy on the system.
An essay urges sharing happiness to enrich life. It suggests distributing enjoyments to two or three people to add taste to personal joy. The idea emphasizes communal happiness enhancing individual well being.
A period beauty tip suggests mixing the juice of two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to create a inexpensive freckle remover and complexion lotion. The routine promises clear, soft, white skin with daily massage to the face neck arms and hands, claiming the mix is harmless and widely available at groceries and drug stores.
Goldbeating as an industry is as ancient and honorable as it is fascinating. It is practiced much the same way now as by goldworkers of ancient Greece and even earlier Egypt. Remarkable cases exist of gold beaten down to less than three hundred thousandths of an inch in thickness.
An advertisement asserts catarrhal deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy affecting the mucous through the blood and offers a $100 reward for any case not cured by the product.
American troops near Montdidier endure a shell storm with high explosives and gas, while Australian and Canadian forces push toward Morlancourt and Arras areas. Reported heavy fighting pending as rains slow the German drive, with Allied artillery maintaining pressure and observers watching key sectors along the Somme and Arras front.
Senate and house conferees reached agreement to extend the selective draft to men turning 21 since June 5, 1917, placing new registrants at the bottom of current lists. Exempts theological and medical students, with opposition by Provost Marshal General Crowder. A registration rule for men already in service reaching majority since last June 5 was also debated.
The sale to the highest bidder for cash occurs on the first Tuesday in June 1918 at the court house in Butler. The property is ten acres in land lot 64, 14th district, Taylor County Georgia, in Newsom survey, deeded to William Ivey by Elam Waters August 1 1904. Levied to satisfy a Justice Court fi fa in favor of N P Moise against William Ivey. Sale date May 3 1915. J R Beeland, Sheriff.
Public notices for Taylor County Georgia in May 1918 include a sheriff sale of Lot 116 in the 15th district totaling 202 1/2 acres to satisfy two fi fa judgments in favor of Farmers and Merchants Bank of Butler against T C Amos, to be held June 1918 at the Taylor County courthouse in Butler. Also, P C Watson administrator for Claud D Watson seeks discharge with Letters of Dismissal on the first Monday in June following full administration. A H Riley Ordinary and executors A O and Tildon Montgomery of S Montgomery estate notify show cause.
Notice is given that H. L. Duke administrator has applied to the Ordinary for leave to sell all lands and timber of the estate of H. T. Duke, deceased, for distribution. The application will be heard at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in June 1918.
W D Parker applies for gardenship of Walter and Alton Parker not children of Sidney Parker, late of the county. The hearing is set for ten o'clock a.m. on the first Monday in June 1918 at the courthouse office.
A pithy reflection contrasts the small with the vast. It ponders how minimal beings hold pride while vast ideas loom beyond. The line invites contemplation of scale, humility, and the nature of aspiration.
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