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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
4
The Southeastern Fair October 16 26 will be a national exclusive in livestock and racing. It features the International Club Stock Judging Contest, a National Hog and Cattle Show, and Grand Circuit racing with top thoroughbreds on Lakwood track, poised to set records and showcase future International Grand Championships.
Auto Polo, the exciting Ford car contest, will be a daily feature at the Southeastern Fair from October 16 to 26. Two teams race and crash in dramatic maneuvers that keep the grand stand breathless from start to finish.
Greenland serves as the primary birthplace of icebergs for arctic and sub arctic waters. The northward West Greenland current pushes bergs northward before they turn west near the seventy fourth to seventy fifth parallel, eventually entering the Canadian and Arctic seas.
The third finger is anatomically weaker, bearing rings for engagement and wedding. Pianists must drill it twice as hard because the extensor tendon of the third finger crosses and connects to the second, tying its movements to that finger.
General Courieres de Castelnau praises the United States Army for its valor and discipline in World War I. He notes the American soldier’s courage, coolness, energy, tenacity, and self sacrifice, saying their fighting spirit helped secure victory and guaranteed triumph when needed.
After a five year gap the snake eaters of northern Africa met in Tunis and Algeria with seventeen noted reptile gourmets taking part. Many wore war medals from France. over four hundred snakes were measured and distributed. Contenders forced snakes head first into the mouth, avoiding bunching, with a score-keeper and cheering crowd. The winner with 24 snakes received a brass nailed ball hung with chains and coins.
A London Tit-Bits style anecdote describes Perkins seeking a tonic from a doctor who suggests using imagination to feel better. Perkins pretends illness after a week and pays five dollars, the doctor quipping to imagine the fee as payment. A second item notes Pred Zavatkay recounting giant mosquitoes puncturing a spare tire during a trip near Winestel Cort.
A fragmentary quotation from Boy's Life notes a humming bird and a wood chuck in a comical scene. R. J. Brasher laments intruder dimensions while a woodchuck is challenged by Leghorns and hens, then retreats to its territory, causing a flap of cackling hens.
Jack rabbits numbering about 35,000 have been killed in drives in eastern Washington under the Biological Survey. Demand for meat in Northwest cities is good with white-tailed rabbits at 2.50 per dozen and black-tailed about 2. The campaign plans extension as carcasses should be drawn quickly after being codled.
Gap Johnson from Rumpus Ridge reports county plans to install a pipe organ in the town church. Mrs. Johnson opposes smoking in church, voicing firm anti smoking sentiment while noting the plan may suit others. The brief reflects local reaction and a clash of views over church decorum.
In a Detroit Free Press item a wife jokes she has begun housecleaning and telling neighbors that her husband is not a bit of use around the house. The quip captures domestic humor and local newsroom gossip.
A sale of Kipling manuscripts reveals a typewritten unit titled Tomlinson from 1892 edited by Henley with admonitions and changes. Another piece shows Cleared revised from an Irish voice, demonstrating Kipling’s care in wording and revision as a mark of literary prowess.
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