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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1915
Page
4
Community notes show Athens preparing for Dixie Highway access and conventions while clean up week ends. Reports on Georgia Mercer game, Georgia band, and forthcoming water and sewer conference highlight civic interest and regional ties. Leaders urge support for chambers, bankers, and city hospitality.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce urges citizens and nearby counties to back a Dixie Highway path from Chicago to Miami via Chattanooga and Athens. Officials say no route is settled yet and the best route may balance contiguity of counties and road quality over the shortest distance.
The article reports improving business nationwide per official government department summaries and recurring trade reviews. It notes wartime disruptions fading as the country adjusts, with agriculture industry finance and development reorganizing under safer emergency measures and prices.
The nation credits Washington for strict neutrality amid Europe’s war, resisting pressure from both sides. The Buffalo Times praises the administration’s clear note to Great Britain on neutral rights, arguing embargoes would force neutrals into an unfair position and lauding the President and Secretary of State for their doctrinal leadership.
A collage of anecdotes and maxims spans a man facing fear from beasts and storms to a child named Conscience at his door. The note quotes D G B Coquette about a Dixie Highway, mocks education, and cites Australia’s gate timber as exceptionally strong with tensile strength up to 35 000 psi.
Helen watches a white moth on the porch and asks her mother to kill it. The mother tells her to love the moth, and Helen replies that she does love it but not enough.
Waxed paper such as the tissue inside cracker boxes proves useful to line cake pans that are a bit thin. Cut to fit, flour lightly, pour in batter, and bake. Stand hot pans on a wet cloth for five minutes, then invert to release cakes.
A concise saying on philanthropy defining a true donor as one who studies harder to give money away than to earn it.
Four years ago a hungry sick man from Prague asked for food at a Chicago doorway. A Jewish family sheltered him and learned his tale before he left for Bohemia in 1911. Now the sisters named in his will receive $25,000 each from a Prague attorney’s firm, after the man, William Popper, died.
Mrs. Atlee Pomerene wife of the Ohio senator is elected president of the Congressional club in Washington a key social center for official life in the capital.
William Thompson Osborne of Newburgh dies at 102 years 5 months after a long life marked by a vote for Henry Clay in 1832 and a lifelong Whig Republican stance He abstained from tobacco and remained a teetotaler His final words were I want to go home The Leipzig Tageblatt appeal raises 256000 dollars in gold for exchange to bank notes and handed to the Reichsbank by 19 197 donors
In Cleveland a city campaign to combat typhoid and related diseases uses the "Head 'em off" slogan to reduce flies. The city reports fewer flies, markets show very few insects, and the effort builds on two previous successful campaigns. Residents increasingly avoid screens, and officials tout gains toward a flyless city goal.
A North Carolina health bulletin describes building a fly trap: a 4 by 2 by 144 inch box with eighteen mesh sides, cones on three bottom holes, a top end trapdoor, and baited with sugar molasses clabber or fish heads. Flies attracted to bait enter the cone openings and crawl into the trap.
A note from England reports a harsh cold season killed the housefly reducing disease spread. Infantile diarrhea linked to milk fires poisoning is noted as extremely rare, and a form of ptomaine poisoning also appears rare.
A Judge anecdote set after Reconstruction features an old planter meeting a former enslaved man, who now preaches the gospel. The exchange reveals shifting power and economic pressure as the preacher seeks cash for his sermon rather than relying on notes.
In Alaska dogs are used in farming with horseflesh scarce. A pair of dogs on a wheel plow proves useful in potato patches and a team of six can haul about 1,000 pounds of produce to market.
A Philadelphia Ledger item quips that marriage ends a bachelor’s plight of needing to take in boarders, framing matrimony as a remedy for aging sickness and solitude.
Women can extend the life of silk hosiery and vests by rinsing them immediately after wear, avoiding rubbing with the general wash. Use soft warm water and white soap, rub gently in the hands, and air dry. adding a teaspoon of borax keeps white silk from yellowing when washed with other clothes.
Fashion notes describe a year of trims with plain silhouettes and new details. Jet tulle trims create a light, glittering sheet across gowns, while military braidings spread from coats to skirts and sleeves, enhancing black evening dresses with cross bands and novel textures.
A brown panne velvet dress features an open front tunic, a wide braided sash, and fur trimming at the waist. The ensemble presents a refined spring fashion statement with textured fabric and contrasting trim.
Describes new large square veils with rounded corners designed to be draped over hats and shoulders. Edges are edged with moire ribbon, creating decorative folds and a delicate ripple effect.
Dr. Jean Dawson, civics professor and anti fly leader in Cleveland, urges immediate swatting to curb a winter fly surge. She argues early action prevents a future explosion, citing fantastical breeding figures to persuade residents to search attics basements and sheds for lone winter flies.
The housefly is cited as the most dangerous animal, responsible for more human deaths than all predators and venomous snakes combined.
Health officials in Cleveland urge a citywide push to eradicate flies by sanitary premises, covered garbage, proper screening, and strict adherence to simple preventive steps. The idea of a completely flyfree city is debated as a utopian goal but promoted as achievable with collective effort.
A historic remedy describes mixing two tablespoons of formalin with a pint of milk and water, using bread to attract flies for poisoning and noting formalin’s disinfectant properties as it evaporates. It also recommends burning pyrethrum powder to suppress house fires, advising closed doors and windows and sweeping up stunned flies after combustion.
Carnot, visited by Irish patriot Wolfe Tone, was a French director who governed the republic. After the failed invasion of England he fled to Germany, returned, and later became minister of war for a brief period due to his opposition to Napoleon.
Diamonds that cannot be worked are sold under the name bort and used for various purposes. Splinters of bort are made into delicate drills for drilling artificial teeth and other exceedingly hard substances.
A man, an architect, meets a lady acquaintance on the street and mentions visiting the nave of the new church they both attend. She hints she knows the man and silences naming, implying shared knowledge of the subject.
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