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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
10
A historic recipe describes making potato muffins and potato yeast dough. It instructs combining mashed potatoes with flour salt and fat, scalded milk and yeast, then allowing the dough to rise to double, shape, rise again, and bake in a hot oven. It also details a potato muffin variant with liquid fat syrup eggs and wheat flour, baking until done.
The article notes Houdon the French sculptor who created the famous St. Bruno statue in Rome. It recalls his 1785 American visit at Franklin’s invitation, casts for Washington statue in Richmond praised by Lafayette as the finest likeness of the American Patriot. It mentions St. Bruno’s Trappist vow of silence and a papal quip on speech versus order rules.
Claims a remedy from Dr. F W Hall cures kidney and bladder troubles dissolves gravels diabetes and rheumatism and restores function in men and women. Regulates bladder problems in children and offered by mail for $1.00. Two months' treatment per small box with testimonials available.
An advertising pitch denounces calomel and touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable remedy. The seller claims it cleanses the liver, relieves biliousness, and prevents sickness with a single nightly spoonful, even for children, and offers a money back guarantee if not effective.
The article notes borwond wood imported from Turkey used by engravers. Prices range from four to ten cents per square inch for the best grade. An ordinary wagon load of boxwood could cost thousands, and a bead string would be a costly jewelry piece.
In a Kansas City Times report a Springfield girl who was underage eloped with a young man. The father, who caused the arrest, slept through the elopement and did not awaken for some time. The court acquitted the young man.
The text urges sharing happiness to give flavor to joy. It suggests distributing pleasures to others so they benefit two or three, enhancing the giver’s own sense of gladness and creating a fuller, richer happiness.
Legal advertisements describe a public sale on the first Tuesday in June 1918 at the Butler courthouse door in Taylor County Georgia. The property is lot 116 in the 15th district containing 202 1/2 acres more or less and is the property of T C Amos to satisfy a fi fa from the Taylor County Superior Court in favor of Farmers and Merchants Bank of Butler. Also notices of executor discharge and leave to sell estate lands are given by A W Riley Ordinary and H L Duke administrator in the same period.
Citation in Gehorghija Taylor County announces W D Parker's application for gardenship of Walter and Alton Parker, minors of Sidney Parker. Hearing set at the official office at ten o'clock a.m. on the first Monday in June 1918.
The passage notes widespread French literacy across South America with readers in homes and abundant editions of classics. It highlights bookstores stocked with modern French prose and verse in translation and original form.
A remedy claims to cure catarrhal deafness only by a constitutional medicine rather than local applications. It blames inflammation of the Eustachian tube mucous lining for rumbling sounds and deafness, and offers Hell's Catarrh Medicine as a systemic treatment with a promised $100 reward for permanent deafness improvement.
President Wilson proclaims May 30 a national day of public humiliation prayer and fasting for victory and a just lasting peace. He urges all faiths to gather in worship and seek forgiveness, guidance, and steadfastness in the war effort.
A Cincinnati authority warns that women wearing high heels suffer corns and danger from infection. A drugstore remedy named freezone, used sparingly, can remove corns by dropping on the affected area, causing the corn to lift out with roots without pain. The substance dries quickly and does not irritate surrounding skin. Tell your wife about this.
An ad touts Ziron Iron Tonic as a safe iron supplement to combat weakness and anemia. It includes a testimonial from Lizzie Pennington of Adamsville Alabama about rebuilding strength after illness and offers a refund on unused bottles.
Georgia girls at South Georgia Normal School in Valdosta heeded War Secretary Baker’s call to plant large victory gardens. The 328 students started a big garden at college, supplying vegetables for meals and easing meatless and wheatless days while maintaining full academic effort.
A home remedy suggests squeezing two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle remover and complexion beautifier. The lotion is massaged into the face neck arms and hands daily to fade freckles and blemishes and whiten skin at low cost.
A city girl visiting the country listens to a cow moaning for her calf. The moment captures rural life through a child’s perspective, highlighting the bond between animals and people.
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