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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1921
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR shows rail line snippets such as Atlanta to Monroe, Memphis to Birmingham, Atlanta to Norfolk and Richmond, and Abbeville. The text is incomplete but indicates a regional railroad or timetable listing with multiple city pairs and routes.
Market notes show New York cotton steady with bid prices around 13 to 18 cents for months including January March May and December, with spot markets in several cities steady between 11.5 and 13.5 cents. Liverpool tone quiet with mid curdling around 9.28 pence. Currency and bond markets list mercantile paper rates, foreign exchange, and government issues. Cottonseed products and linters prices appear with nominal meal and hulls figures. Carrara marble quarries noted as longstanding in Italy.
Cambridge chemists show a milk purse crafted from sows ears as a demonstration rather than industrial use. Arthur D. Little, Inc. reports the silk substitute proved possible by mimicking silkworm chemistry, though the resulting fabric was not strong and lacked practical value. The article details analysis, glue-like components from ears, and spinning into a fine filament before weaving into a purse.
Pen Points reflects on dream reversals from youth to adulthood, a news girl's fate, and the bee's ceaseless toil. It notes quiet judgment as a tool for self‑improvement and hints at pressures to fit into larger roles, amid a count of nearly 600 men’s colleges and 200 women’s colleges in the United States.
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