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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
7
Rev H C Hughes addresses ten graduates urging youth to dream boldly yet act with integrity. He traces historic visions from Pilgrims to Garibaldi and Napoleon, warning against selfish ambition, stressing character, truth, and service. The speech links success to discipline, mentorship, faith, and purposeful planning for a noble life.
An advertisement promotes a kidney and bladder remedy named A TEXAS WONDER made by Dr. E. W. Hall of St. Louis Missouri. It claims to treat gravel weak back rheumatism and irregularities and offers a small bottle for $1.25 with mailed testimonials and druggist availability.
In an interview Dr T F Aber crombie expresses willingness to assist people with health problems including satiation prevention of disease and water supply. He invites correspondence at 131 Capital Square Atlanta Ga and promises a reply by return mail. He is quoted as saying he is happiest when helping others.
A sermon-style meditation examines why people lie drawing on scripture. It argues malice pride fear and hope of gain harm character and notes lying damages trust and self deception. It closes with a call to truthfulness and the possibility of being born again.
A compact history of capital punishment by water. Tacitus notes Germanic uses of hanging and bog drownings. Romans practiced drowning. Lex Cornelia prescribed a brutal parricide punishment. Anglo-Saxon law condemned female thieves to death by drowning. Scotland carried drownings into the 17th century, with notable cases in 1556 and 1611, and 1623 gypsy women. France used drowning as late as 1793.
In a moonlit garden the night is calm and luminous as three young women sit on a wall after dinner. Rose sits slightly apart while the full moon moves over Shelley's wedding site a century earlier, and the landscape glows with faint stars, blue mountains, and distant lights.
Diamonds and favorable structures noted in North Carolina Georgia Kentucky Ohio Wisconsin and Colorado with a yellow uncut but polished stone from Cabin Fork Creek Kentucky in the Isaac Lea collection. The National Museum catalogs It 28 as Kentucky origin. An 1856 eleven and a half carat diamond was found at Manchester near Richmond Virginia.
The largest gold nugget, over 400 pounds troy, hailed from Chile and was worth about 100000 dollars. A 224 pound nugget mined in Ballara Australia in 1859 followed by a 195 pound Calaveras County California nugget found in 1854 brought over 43000 dollars. French Ravine Sierra County yielded multiple big nuggets including 5000 8000 and 10000 dollar finds in 1850 1851 and 1855, showing repeated strikes in the same place.
The Book of Jasher is a lost Hebrew text cited twice in the Bible Its author and content are unknown scholars date its loss to the Babylonian captivity around 606 to 586 B C Two later works bearing the same name appeared in 1394 and 1544 with another anonymous edition in 1625 in Venice and Prague
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