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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1921
Page
2
Music lovers of the county will hold a singing at Bogart High School auditorium Sunday afternoon beginning at 2 o clock. B Dunaway Clarke County Singing Convention president announced that prominent singers from adjoining counties will attend. Everyone is invited to attend.
An advertorial touts Jacobs' Liver Salt as a safe remedy for biliousness caused by torpid liver and constipation. It claims quicker, gentler liver and bowel flushing than calomel, with a generous bottle at 85 cents and trial samples free upon request through Jacobs' Pharmacy in Atlanta.
Advertises Ironized Yeast a tonic combining yeast with iron to restore strength and health for the anaemic and run-down. Claims improvements within three days and clearer complexions within ten days. Each $1 package provides ten days of treatment with child directions, produced by the Ironized Yeast Company in Atlanta.
Moscow dispatch notes famine conditions deteriorating in parts of Russia though cholera cases are said to be fewer. Relief moves include transit of aid to famine areas and preparations for American food relief. In Athens a traffic accident prompts police warnings and routing changes to ease congestion near Lumpkin street and Hancock avenue.
Russian Bolshevik gold valued at 1 million dollars arrived in Constantinople in the last two weeks. The United States destroyer Overton brought 800,000 dollars from Batum for the American Foreign Trade Corporation. The funds are to be used as revolving credit from three republics to buy manufactured goods with raw materials exchanged.
Congress aims to end the current special session and grant committees time to expedite government work. Much already accomplished under Harry Hunt, with focus on finishing key legislative tasks and restoring regular session routines.
An early Friday morning collision near Hancock Avenue and Lumpkin Street was narrowly avoided when D. T. Tolbert of Hull failed to miss Richard Mathews, a delivery boy for a local drugstore. Mathews swerved toward the curb as Tolbert’s car turned, the rear wheel pinning the bicycle momentarily. Mathews escaped injury.
The Ways and Means Committee approved removing taxes on proprietary medicines and lowered cereal beverage taxes from six to four cents per gallon. Congress, four months into a special session, will recess with uncertain progress on tariff and revenue bills and no clear path to passage this session.
The article lists eight important laws passed including ending the war with Germany and Austria, creation of a national leadership system with independent audit, immigration limits, Sweet bill for ex service relief, navy and army appropriations with arms conference and manpower limits, emergency tariff for agriculture, and submarine cable permitting rules. It notes additional bills on grain futures and Volstead enforcement, plus a blocked bonus bill and a stalled maternity bill, with mention of German leather waste used for specialized heels.
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