Millet on Synthesis Over Detail in Art
The artist argues that rejecting mere detail for a synthesized form creates a stronger artistic effort. He challenges charges of insensitivity to charm, claiming to reveal unseen but real dramatic aspects.
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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
8
The artist argues that rejecting mere detail for a synthesized form creates a stronger artistic effort. He challenges charges of insensitivity to charm, claiming to reveal unseen but real dramatic aspects.
An advertisement claims Texas Wonder treats kidney and bladder troubles including gravel diabetes and rheumatism. It promises bladder regulation for children and mail delivery for $1.00 with two months of treatment per box. testimonials available from Dr. F W Hall of St. Louis and druggist sales nationwide.
An ad promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable alternative to calomel. It claims calomel causes salivation and sickness from mercury, while Liver Tone starts the liver, cures biliousness, constipation, headaches, and sour stomach without side effects. Drugstores guarantee satisfaction or money back.
County residents debate wartime labor help for farmers. Suggestions include closing business hours, canvassing farm-experienced locals, pledging leave for work on crops, forcing idle workers to join farm tasks, organizing county war councils with farmers and business leaders, and mobilizing high school youth to aid harvests. Similar steps urged nationwide.
Washington May 12 National Memorial Day May 30 is designated by President Wilson in a proclamation as a day of public humiliation prayer and fasting. Americans urged to gather in worship to pray for victory and a peace founded on mercy justice and goodwill. The proclamation follows a congressional resolution requesting humble supplication to Almighty God for safety and welfare of our cause and a lasting peace.
A Cincinnati authority warns about corns from tight high heels and promotes Freezone as a remedy. The ad claims a quarter ounce from drug stores will remove hard or soft corn or callus with a few drops, causing immediate relief and painless removal.
An advertising appeal urges readers to inspect the tongue for signs of anemia and to try Ziron, an iron tonic with hypophosphites. It claims benefits for fatigue, indigestion, and general malaise, featuring a customer testimonial and a money back offer on the first trial bottle.
The article notes that modern gold leaf is extremely thin. It states that ordinary printing paper is over 1000 times thicker than the leaf. For commercial use the leaf has some substance, and only about five grains of gold are needed to make gilders books. Each of the 25 leaves measures about 3 1/2 inches square.
A vintage home remedy suggests squeezing two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle remover. The lotion is claimed to fade freckles and blemishes with daily massage, leaving skin clear and white at low cost.
Delegates from Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Hampshire and Vermont met in Hartford Connecticut on December 15 1814. The secretly conducted proceedings drew odium and hewed to resolutions protesting the war with England, fueling accusations of treasonable intent.
An old time advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh by acting through the blood. It promises a $100 reward for incurable cases and asserts thirty five years of reliable use. It urges immediate use and notes testimonials and Toledo based F. J. Cheney & Co. as suppliers at 75 cents.
In a brief exchange Bridget reports Brown is arrested and will “get his hearing in the mornin” while noting his brother, once deaf at sixty, may be improving. The odd line suggests a local, offbeat moment from a recovery scene.
French language presence permeates South America with 12 almost universal readers and widespread editions of classics in homes and stores filled with modern French prose and verse, both translated and original.
Legal notices announce public sale of property to satisfy a fi fa left by Farmers and Merchants Bank. Lot 116 in the 15th district Taylor County Georgia containing 20214 acres more or less seized as T C Amos property. Sale set for first Tuesday in June 1918 at the courthouse Butler. Also notices for administrator discharge of Claud D Watson estate, S Montgomery executors discharge, and leave to sell H T Duke estate all in Taylor County Georgia.
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