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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1922
Page
4
The Board of Health launches a strong campaign to remove health threats by cleaning the city and enforcing sewer connections within reach of lines. It urges homeowners to fund and build sanitary closets and comply with ordinances to curb the fly and typhoid risk before hot weather. The board seeks citizen cooperation to avoid court actions and protect public health.
Soviet delegates travel to Genoa, facing mixed reception as Europe weighs recognizing the Soviet government. The outcome remains uncertain, with France demanding old Russian debts and Lloyd George viewed as open to trade ties. Germany may side with Russia, while questions linger on Lenine and Trotsky's fate and Russia’s future role.
Government records from Washington show a gradual drop in living costs since 1917 the cost of living now sits about twenty percent higher than prewar levels yet thirty percent below wartime peak. Some items may further decline others steady this year while food and clothing have fallen faster than housing rents which remain high but expected to ease toward normal levels. Labor costs show little downward movement and likely will not return to prewar prices.
The Athens University Alumni Club, comprising W. S. Basinger T. F. Green and T. W. Reed, recommended a constitution and by laws modeled after the Savannah club. President E. I Smith will convene a meeting to adopt the constitution, signaling the club's role in regional university sentiment. The city moves to pave sidewalks under new laws, with brick pavement to replace prior dirt paths. Work crews yesterday advanced paving in front of city hall on College Avenue.
Cotton shows rising market causing anxiety among buyers in Athens as prices jump. city street crews repair Prince avenue, improving the thoroughfare. A fisherman reports an eight pound carp from the Oconee river. A Crawford man offers a $25 reward for a described black male suspect. Confederate stamps from Athens attract collectors and fetch high prices. Citizens object to a city street survey as wasteful, while an auction in front of A Coleman plans sale of a fine Hambletonian mare and adjunct items.
A collection of witty, dated sayings and misquoted lines touching on war veterans taxes fashion and social norms. It mentions a plesiosaurus joke a Ruth game absence of Europe Turkey as the slick man and a joke about a man and socks. The tone is playful satirical and fragmented.
The article explains how to distinguish cries by hunger illness or temper, and outlines responses. It warns against indulging crying to avoid forming habits and suggests letting a baby cry it out after warm dry comfort is ensured, with brief soothing breaks to release gas and prevent long-term tyranny.
Petitioners from Athens Clarke County Georgia seek incorporation as American Mutual Fire Insurance Company a purely mutual enterprise with no capital stock to insure real and personal property against fire loss or damage. Also included are sheriff sale notices and public citations for twelve months support and administration with various names and dates.
Petitioners seek incorporation in Clarke County Georgia for a company to operate in divisions of up to four counties with initial division of Clarke Barrow Gwinnett and Walton. They publish notice in The Athens Banner for four weeks and request renewal rights under existing laws. Names include A M Steen H A Lewallen W D Nelms W H Landers and attorney Erwin Erwin Nix. Sworn March 24 1922 Nolie C Murray Notary Public.
In May 1922 at the courthouse door in Clarke County Georgia the highest bidder will purchase a parcel of land with improvements. The property lies in the 241st District and follows a described boundary from the Athens and Winder Public Road, totaling about four acres. It is levied on as the defendant Claude Lockhart's property to satisfy a judgment in favor of Robt Chaney against Claude Lockhart. Legal notice given defendant. Sheriff.
Legal notices cite creditors and heirs of Miss Odessa Sailors Louis P. Canning and Luvenla Brown seeks permanent administration. Georgia Clarke County court of ordinary to grant letters to E J Bondurant and R L Patterson. Public sale of half acre tract in Athens city limits to be held first Tuesday in May 1922.
Clarke County Georgia Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues invites sealed proposals for about 20000 square yards of steel fabric for concrete pavement reinforcing. Fabric to weigh about 44 pounds per 100 square feet, Georgia Standard Highway specs. Bids due May 2, 1922 at Athens office. Cash basis payment. Right to reject all bids. April 4, 1922. Tate Wright, Clerk and County Attorney. Old king coal is weary old soul.
Mrs. Cora Courtney of North Seventeenth Street writes she was run-down and tired until taking Cardui. She says it helped her regain strength to care for five children, husband, and chores, and she urges others with similar symptoms to try this vegetable medicine for women.
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