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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1917
Page
4
A fragment from The Athens Daily Banner notes WWI era appeals urging Americans to boost food production and conserve resources. It includes President messages to factory workers farmers merchants railway workers and housewives urging abundance of supplies, efficient shipping, and garden planting while referencing local newspaper delivery and subscription details.
Dean Snelling of the University of Georgia foresaw food shortages and rising prices during the European conflict. He secured a Denmark Hall farm to supply produce for the University dining hall, keeping student board costs down and ensuring sufficient food for the Denmark Hall dining table despite shortages and high prices. The farm is an invaluable asset and will produce all possible foodstuffs for the current year to feed Georgia students.
A wartime editorial urges citizens to stay calm and steady, avoid panic, and continue regular work while awaiting details on troop calls and food supplies. It lauds University of Georgia efforts to support the nation, including alumni in wireless and field engineering, and asserts disciplined action will marshal resources quickly.
A wartime cartoon contrasts two nations both prepared for conflict. One nation builds army, navy, and disciplined society. war comes to others who are unprepared. The message crowns readiness as decisive, noting Victoriuos outcomes for the prepared power.
The piece jars opinions on love, marriage, pride, and social restraint. It wittily contrasts Cupid, theater fame, and male vanity with lines about weather talk, silk hats, fashion, drunken wisdom, and bachelorhood. It reflects a humorous, op-ed style on relationship foibles and social norms.
A collection of kitchen care tips offering low effort fixes. It suggests adding baking soda to boiling cabbage to control odor and rinsing pans with hot water before milk to prevent sticking. It advises reusing trimmed old whisk brooms to remove stuck food, sprinkling lattle sugar on custard for browning, using alcohol to remove stains, reheating jam to soften, and cleaning silver filigree with a soft brush and velvet for a polished finish.
A brief dialogue about a grand opera where one character claims the audience is not missing much because they cannot understand the language, and the other replies that they are still not missing any jokes. The exchange highlights humor about language barriers in opera.
The poem warns Britain to heed Rudyard Kipling’s admonition about danger from war and neglect. It laments complacency, comfort, and trade at the expense of readiness, urging fearlessness against the clamor of peace and warning of immediate consequences if a gun is not learned. The piece appeals to national memory, duty, and the peril of delayed sacrifice.
An eye-witness recalls a courtroom moment where a colonel presides over a court martial and recounts ancestral feats at Malplaquet Ramillies and Wellington. The accused Tommy counters with his Somme service, reflecting on duty and lineage in a terse exchange. The London Mail notes the anecdote in a formal, measured tone.
A boy with a grindstone asks a merchant’s clerk for knives or scissors to grind. Clerk jokes about sharpening wits. Boy fires back with a ready retort, prompting the Interrogator to produce the article.
Twelve large green peppers twelve red peppers six onions two tablespoonful salt two cupfuls sugar and one quart vinegar. Chop first three ingredients very fine. Cover with boiling water and let stand ten minutes. Bring to a boil and boil three minutes. Drain very dry. Add the other ingredients and boil 20 minutes.
Milwaukee Journal notes thrifty living means avoiding waste and misused resources rather than stinginess. Nighthawk travels far with the longest migration among land birds, covering about 7,000 miles from the Yukon to Argentina.
May 1 to 6 marks Baby Week, a nationwide effort begun last year to spotlight infant mortality and boost local baby-saving work. The movement, urged by the Children's Bureau and General Federation of Women’s Clubs, urges communities to examine their death rates and expand cooperation among agencies, with results seen in towns, villages, and rural areas through nurse services, birth registration drives, school lessons in domestic science, and expanded child hygiene programs.
A concise reflection notes that practical wisdom outweighs extensive study. It extols common sense as valuable, signaling that practical judgment often surpasses formal education in everyday affairs.
Seaboard Air Line schedules show No. 11 at 6:02 am No. 17 at 7:10 am No. 5 at 3:46 pm No. 29 at 6:18 pm Northbound No. 30 at 10:40 am No. 6 at 5:53 pm No. 18 at 7:45 pm No. 12 at 11:46 pm.
The Athens Athens Georgia Railroad timetable lists daily train No 50 leaving Athens and multiple trains 53 54 51 55 with varied Sunday operations and arrival times to Athens from Athens. Train 50 departs daily, Train 53 runs daily except Sunday, Train 54 runs Sundays only, Train 51 runs daily except Sunday arriving 12 59 noon, Train 53 arrives 9 40 pm, Train 55 arrives Sundays 12 40 pm.
timetable lists trains from Athens with departures at 7 30 a m 2 20 p m and arrivals at 11 40 p m 6 40 p m Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont with Winder Monroe intermediate points and with Georgia Railroad for all points Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern stations and Southern Railway north and south
Southern Railway announces Athens Branch train times with daily departures to All Points at 8:20 a m and 1:00 p m and gun. only at 3:15 p m. daily service except Sundays at 2:30 p m. Arrivals show daily at 11:40 p m and 4:50 p m. Sundays excluded 9:45 p m. For info call H B Williams or E Shelton.
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