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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
8
In early steamboat days cabins were named after states. A Mississippi builder launched the Kate Barnesdale with a new deckhouse behind the pilot to add sleeping room for passengers. The vessel entered service on the day Texas was admitted to the Union, so the cabin was named the Texas.
A woman recalls inviting guests to celebrate a birthday when she used a creamer and sugar bowl given as a gift. Her husband mocked the gift as "Some more of your cheap bargains" in front of guests, embarrassing her and upsetting the donor, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
Propaganda promotes tobacco cultivation in Great Britain with optimistic findings from the British Tobacco Growers' Association. A committee concluded tobacco can be produced in the British Isles and likens the crop to its success in France and Belgium as a path to agricultural prosperity.
In a seaside melodrama Mrs Runabout dismisses the show as dull while her husband hushes her. In the next reel the rescue leads to a wedding as the rescued woman marries the lifesaver, ending the scene on a romantic note.
The clerk asks why fatigue hits at night. The boss replies that energy spent on blaming others should be used to correct one’s own faults, otherwise weariness grows for all. Reported in the Philadelphia Ledger.
Copper in Japan shows an uptick attributed to a rapid fall in supply rather than an improved industrial demand. The article notes no broad economic improvement behind the rise.
Mrs Frank tells the employment agency her husband is often late for dinner. The cook replies that he may reform if wages include double pay for overtime.
A witty remark imagines a female cook entering Parliament to manage Irish issues. The speaker suggests she would be an apt choice for the times, portraying Parliament as handling a complicated Irish affair.
A Kokomo Indiana pilot gave an elderly passenger a thrilling ride with Immelmann turns and other maneuvers. The man, nearly eighty, demanded all the twists and spins, declaring he wanted to ride like a porpoise in the air. The aviator complied, delivering the full, risky performance.
Two prospectors found a rich ledge in Idaho's Upper Salmon river district. A Spokane officer, told of the mine by one founder, pursued it for 20 years after a quarrel, and now the claim has been reasserted, promising four to six feet of rich quartz streak with visible gold. The tale fits enduring romance of mining fortunes.
John D. Rockefeller Jr has provided Libby castle on Washington Heights as a home for 50 Paulist choristers aged ten to seventeen. The medieval Norman and Spanish styled house, built 25 years ago, offers music training plus solid academics and physical education, enabling entry to higher schools.
A Savannah News item recounts a Southern traveler in a Canadian rail station asking for a colored woman. The unnamed man explains he seeks a negress on that side, mentioning he has long searched for a colored lady and cannot find her. The anecdote highlights racial language and misunderstanding.
Marines at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba capture two 200 pound sea turtles. They kill them and find over 100 eggs in each shell. The eggs are boiled hard with a soft shell, about the size of a hen's egg, and taste like yolk.
The Detroit News recalls Mary Dacre born amid 1746 Carlisle siege. Highland chiefs guarded her as an officer pinned a white cockade on the infant. In 1822 George IV received a gift from the Primrose line via Sir Walter Scott, a black shagreen case with Charlie Stuart’s silver plate and engraved thistle, now at Grimstone Park.
Otis C. Little argues in a New York Evening Post letter that public figures labeled ex- should be sorted into Hon or dis-Hon based on past performance. He predicts ex-officio titles will hinge on merit, urging reform in how we honor former officials.
The article highlights President Wilson as a keen punster both in politics and in private circles. It cites his fondness for limericks and puns and mentions a line attributed to a pirate chief in a burlesque. It recalls his boyhood quip about football describing it as being more shinned against than shinning.
A bashful caller says she saved coupons for a husband as he finally speaks up. The Louisville Courier Journal notes the humorous exchange with a playful ending.
A Louisville note jokes that pretty girls attract other boarders who then pay their own board, calling these arrivals a great help.
Uncle Bill Bottletop jokes about an overly thrifty man who bought many mince pies and ran them through a clothes wringer, satirizing wastefulness and odd wit.
In a humorous exchange a grocer riffing about not liking an undertaker asking about health quips the butcher joins with a jab about the question sounding too much like a solemn inquiry.
A witty line contrasts the English prince of Wales with a boast about having multiple "kings of sharks" in a comparative acquisitions discussion. The remark frames dominance through vivid animal metaphors.
A Winnipeg map shows tiny red dots marking 3,000,000 acres once held by the Hudson Bay Company in the Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta belt. Since 1870 the company has sold remaining lands to settlers, turning primeval islands into farms and signaling the empire's final fade from North America.
A Hartford Times editorial notes Americans treat apples as core food but worry over shortages this year. It reports 1 091 000 barrels fewer than 1918 and similar drops from 1916, totaling about 24 million barrels, roughly one per family, with the apple repeatedly praised as America’s most dependable healthful fruit.
The article notes that fourteen billion ordinary toilet pins are produced annually, with American mothers buying 720 million safety pins each year. It cites a yearly hairpin crop of 1.25 billion and 235 million needles annually, totaling a factory value of 15 million dollars. Forty nine factories operate with capital totaling 9,424,900 dollars, a vast growth from 1850 when four factories had 164,000 capital and 297,550 pins produced.
The ex captain turned hotel manager boasts the new ten million dollar property employs only former service members. He lists desk clerks as top kickers floor clerks former noncoms in charge of quarters and reveals the chef a mess sergeant the waiters K P workers the house doctor a base hospital surgeon and the bell staff as dog-robbers. He jokes that outside window washers on the eighteenth floor are former M P s when wind blows.
The United States Department of Agriculture debunks claims that ancient Egyptian grain mummies germinate. French tests show wheat barley and oats over a few years old do not germinate. Under ideal storage seeds may germinate for eight to ten years, but most grains are dead after twenty years.
Mary Kilman of Rouse City Texas narrates a six year recovery from severe side pain after childbirth using Cardus. She reports relief after three bottles and credits continued strength and health to the tonic. The ad targets headaches backache and monthly pains urging readers to try Cardus.
An advertisement warns against calomel to cleanse the liver and promote wellbeing. It claims calomel causes illness and lost work time, while Dodson's Liver Tone is described as safe gentle and non gripe. It also urges giving the remedy to children as harmless.
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