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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
10
A devotional snippet references biblical verses 63:1-8. The fragment appears as a brief devotional note from a periodical page labeled DEVOTIONAL with a scripture citation and page indicator. No broader article context is provided.
The article argues poetry’s vividness and emotional pull elevates Psalms as a universal hymnal. It notes Psalms shaped Christian worship, influenced many hymns, and urges keeping poetic truth and beauty in modern hymnals while avoiding modern junk poetry and unsuitable tunes.
Atlanta man John Carrigan alias John Valor admits participation in a $24000 Bremen payroll robbery and says he fired the fatal shot that killed Beatrice Samples. Fulton Police Chief G Neal Ellis reports Carrigan signed the statement September 14 and cites seven witnesses linking him to the August 29 30 events. Carrigan is held in Fulton Tower and the case awaits proceedings by Solicitor General Paul Webb.
Mrs. Mary W. Thompson was elected unopposed to fill a Harris County tax receiver vacancy after the death of her husband John Frank Thompson. She won 249 votes as voting was light but acceptable for a single candidate.
Zebulon Georgia September report states a 60-year-old man, Robert Gilbert, confessed to shooting two farmers Marvin Mabry and Dick Smith after a plea from Mabry’s daughter. A second suspect Frank King, 35, faced a separate warrant for involvement. Gilbert said self defense as victims advanced.
Buena Vista Ga September employees of Burgin Manufacturing Co. lumber mill voted 31 to 30 against joining a CIO union. The vote, orderly, covered all eligible plant workers on a specified August day.
Table model unit offered cheap visibility at the home of Mrs. Howard Kendrick in Myrtle Walker Butler Georgia.noopener
The administration announces a dividend formula for about 16 million veterans with a table of monthly per thousand payouts by age at policy issue through 1948. The notice also offers night classes for white veterans without completed grammar or high school, with subsistence payments of 37.50, 52.50, or 60.00 depending on dependents, urging contact with the local Veterans service office.
More than 1500 people gathered at a church, grounds, and cemetery in Avera to honor Jerry M. Lafavor, 54, a popular rural mail carrier with 25 years of service and longtime friendship with patrons and neighbors.
In Hinesville Georgia a father Richard F. Riggs aged 37 and his six year old daughter Ann drowned in the Atlantic surf. They were caught in cross currents while swimming and the father died while attempting to rescue his child who screamed for help as the undertow pulled her seaward, authorities said.
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