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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1916
Page
7
Crawfordville sent the town’s only car in a big parade bearing an official banner from the City Council. The party included Mayor Ww. C. Holden and council members J. B. Jackson and M. R. Saggus, with others listed, greeted in Athens by Mayor Arnold and locals.
The uniformed rank of the Woodmen of the World provided notable parade service yesterday morning. They led the line to College avenue and Washington street then escorted State Normal School children, preventing accidents in crowded streets. They assisted traffic officers after disbanding and eased congestion for drivers and pedestrians.
A Baxter Street School sixth grader Hampton Jarrell writes a brief history of the American flag noting origins from 1497, Betsy Ross, 1812 Star Spangled Banner, and Old Glory. The piece praises flag meanings and ends with a patriotic verse from Jarrell. Also ads for Dr King’s New Life Pills promote liver relief and the New Discovery remedy with testimonials.
A man reflects on a citywide Flag Day procession through Athens praising Youth and children as the city’s precious treasure. He contrasts past prosperity with future posterity and asks what to do for tomorrow’s generation. The piece frames youth as a powerful, hopeful pageant.
The article reviews Bailey and Voorhees on when and how to apply commercial fertilizers in vegetable gardens and truck patches. It emphasizes heavy, early applications with multiple subsequent doses, aiming to boost growth, flavor, and market value for crops like asparagus, beets, turnips, peas, and beans.
Onions taste best boiled whole in milk or steamed and served with bread butter and cheese for a satisfying nutritious meal fit for brain work or manual labor. A playful aside notes a tomato thrown at a villain in a theater gallery after a happy ending reported by the Houston Post.
A fragmented 19th century style note reveals a troubled lover speaking of affection and a bride. The terse text hints at romantic tension and social bind with references to a husband and a bride in a frontier setting.
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