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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1921
Page
8
Bradberry defeated Pittard 5 to 4 as both pitchers were hit hard. Meadow made key catches to save Bradberry, and Pope stumbled in the fourth inning. Umpire work praised, game time set for 6:15.
In the Southern League Birmingham 0 Atlanta 15 Nashville 4 Chattanough 3 Memphis 9 Mobile 3. Little Rock 2 2 New Orleans 7 4. An odd editorial aside questions liquor culture and public drinking after Prohibition era talk, urging readers to consider consequences.
City Garage beat the Rehabs 4 to 1 after a four game win streak by the Rehabs ended. Thompson started for the Rehabs but was beset by control and hits, Ertzberger relieved. Peeler starred on the mound for City Garage, striking out ten while giving up three hits. Ertzberger earned two hits in two plate appearances to lead batting. Malcomb and Williams added multi hit games. James made notable catches for Rehabs in center.
The New York Yankees cut Cleveland's lead in the American League to one game with a victory over the Indians. Babe Ruth hit his 47th and 48th home runs to spark the win in Cleveland.
Chicago marks the city’s fiftieth anniversary of the great fire by recalling its public library, now the world’s second largest, born from British sympathy. Thomas Hughes spurred an appeal that sent 12,000 volumes and funds from Britain, with autographs from Gladstone and other notables. The library began in an iron water tank rebuilt as a fireproof repository, grew to 1,100,000 volumes, and circulates about 8,000,000 yearly.
Repair work is being carried out on the Lumpkin Law School building in advance of the new academic year. Registrar reports indicate a large class will be represented this autumn across the university.
Athens Manufacturing company installs machinery to produce automobile tire fabric signaling broader business improvement in the South. City mills, previously operating three to four days per week, announce extended schedules to five or six days, with full-time work anticipated for all mills soon.
Jamesville Ga Henry Gupton a White convict of Hall County escaped from a county gang on Tuesday by stealing a Dodge car owned by the state highway commission and headed for parts unknown. Police and county officials spread a net for the escapee with expectation he will be returned to road task duties soon.
Panama's government told the state department in Washington that Panama will not resist by force U S demands that Costa Rica be allowed to occupy the disputed Coto territory. President Porras said in a statement to the Associated Press. The threat would not have been the case with a Costa Rica alone ultimatum.
A Paris study notes that fresh university students in the Latin Quarter need about 740 francs monthly, about $60 at current exchange. The finding shows rising living costs are steering moderate income families away from liberal careers for their sons.
In Tuesday's Banner the Who's Who writeup for Mr. W. W. Scott carried a Kiwanis club heading by error. The correct club is the Athens Rotary club, of which Mr. Scott is a member.
State Fire Marshal Sharp linked the Wigwam and three other Indian Springs hotels to videnciarism after a Sunday night blaze. The investigation is expected to take ten days to complete.
Funeral services for Harry Swansburg a fifty eight year old Atlanta engineer who died in a Macon hospital after leaping from a thirty story window during a fire at the Brown house will be held in Macon Wednesday at 1 30 o'clock. He will be buried at Riverside cemetery beside his son Herman. The body is at Hart's undertaking parlors in Macon.
Advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as help for women burdened by overwork and daily pains. It claims the product relieves many forms of female complaints and cites letters published in the paper as proof.
A fragment complains about women who are deemed too old or unattractive to marry and allegedly lash out loudly, accusing them of missing out on the best husbands in the world. The terse remark reflects gendered insult without context or credible attribution.
A garbled record lists fixed assets linking fund totals, funded debt, and capital surplus. It cites numbers such as 8,103.61 and 80,990.84 as totals exclusive of funded debt, with a capital surplus line for 19-31-20 and a sinking fund increase of 236.03. Public property increase notes 9,125.00 and 40'95291 appears, alongside a large total of 1,001,367,481 in another line.
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