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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
11
The Athens Banner from 1916 reflects stock market mood and looming labor strike as it notes cotton prices, a broad view of Georgia politics, railroads, and national events. It highlights warnings about supply shortages and the impact of a nationwide strike on business.
The opposition to State School Superintendent M L Brittain is expected to fail as Georgia voters show strong support from teachers and parents. Brittain is credited with practical, progressive laws, audits, consolidation, rural transportation, timely payrolls, compulsory attendance, and free books policy. He has visited every county, earning broad trust and a likely overwhelming primary victory on September 12.
The South produced over 53 percent of U S petroleum in 1915 led by Oklahoma Texas Louisiana West Virginia and Kentucky. World production reached 426 892 678 barrels with the South supplying about 35 percent of it. Experts urge conservation and chemical industry development to maximize refined products and save millions in the region.
A teacher asks students to define excavation while Tommie Bate protests with a murky answer. The exchange centers on interpreting terms and the class grapples with explaining meanings to peers as a student mentions a home injury.
A single figure receives a gift willed by his father, Talent, but earns his fortune through sharp market competition with his brothers, proving that merit comes from character in the end.
Samuel T. Howe, president from Kansas, urged expands to the National Tax Association and National Tax Conference. He called for educational campaigns to cut government costs and for home rule legislation, criticized Washington centralization, and pushed for uniform national tax laws.
Ed Escoe, a young white man, was sent back to the stockade for twenty days on a fresh sentence for allegedly drunk and disorderly conduct. He claimed he could not have become drunk in the twenty minutes since his release, saying he had been out of touch with liquor for weeks and noted the difficulty of obtaining alcohol.
The Woodmen of the World Geo. B. Davis camp Uniform Rank will hold an important meeting this evening at 8:30 at the armory. Capt. Von der Lieth, commanding, issues the call and urges full attendance.
Five Atlanta graduates have volunteered to aid in the fight against infantile paralysis. Misses Stone Culpepper Glenn O Sullivan and Gamble will report to New York for assignment by week’s end.
Max Wardall of Seattle told the National Convention of the Theosophical Society that modern Christianity is far from Christ's teaching, urging churches to supply spiritual food or face a continued decline in attendance as members drift to Christian Science New Thought and Theosophy. He argued salvation comes from the Christ within each person, not from vicarious belief in an historical Jesus.
Thursday program features Bessie Barriscale in The Payment and Pauline Frederick in An dery with comedies at Strand and Elite venues. Friday offers Wallace Reid in The House of Golden Windows and Box Office No 7 Elite program including The Little Church Around the Corner. Saturday presents Charlie Chaplin in One a.M. and Irene Fenwick in The Child of Destiny at Strand with Marine War Camp Liberty and L KO Comedy at Elite.
Mrs. Sidney Simmons of Fair Haven New York says her seven year old was cured of cholera morbus as a baby by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and asks others to try it. She reports continued use by her family for colic and bowel troubles with good results and endorses it as a medicine of exceptional merit. Obtainable everywhere. adv
Atlanta and Fulton county politics show risks for candidates who publicly back patent medicines. A re electing hopeful faced defeat after newspapers highlighted his past endorsements of a popular compound. In the solicitor race physicians revived a 1904 advertisement for Black Weed, used to attack the incumbent candidate. The adage about bowels aside, the piece urges healthy habits and Chamberlains Tablets for mild relief.
A historical notice presents multiple political candidacies in Clarke County Georgia. W O Dean seeks reelection as Solicitor General of the Western Circuit urging crime suppression and court respect. L C Brown runs for state representative. Toombs Dubose and A Von Der Lieth announce legislative campaigns. a candidate for Congress also declares intent to run.
The Clarke county jury revisors finished verifying traverse and grand jury lists and placed names in the jury boxes. Signers include John Barber Wier H Tom D Comer Albert E Davison J P Nunnally and R J Hardeman with D G Anderson listed as absent. This year 228 grand names compare with 250 last year while 686 traverse names contrast with 87 last year. Ministers names remained mostly on the lists for a second year.
Mr H H Linton of Linton enters his lot from Milledge avenue when a larger car driven by a colored man collides as it nears the curb. Both vehicles suffer little damage and no one is hurt in the nighttime accident on Milledge avenue.
A 1916 Mississippi Georgia era notice lists candidates for congress and senate in overlapping districts, urging support and party action. It includes a detailed lodge directory for St Elmo K of P Knights of Pythias, I C O F, P O E, W O W and J O O F chapters with meeting times and officers in Athens and nearby streets.
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