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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
6
Bessie Barriscale performs in a Triangle play at the Strand, impersonating a man in A Corner in Colleens. The Irish maid trades jokes on her lover, delivering nonstop comedy and frolic from start to finish.
By special request of several hundred patrons Wildflower will be shown at the Elite theater today with Marguerite Clark as the star. This is one of her early films and is considered by many to be among her best.
Secretary McAdoo reports 1917 general fund balance of 115 million dollars and a projected 185 million dollar deficit for 1918. He notes 1918 outlays around 1.278 billion, with receipts about 295 million, and cites prosperity, the Federal Reserve system’s value, and need for targeted public building authorizations. The document calls for extending the war risk insurance bureau and updating narcotic laws, among other measures.
Norfolk plans the eighth annual Southern Commercial Congress from December 11 to 14 with special rail fares. The program features over 100 speakers including Wellington Koo and Robert Langing, plus multiple co operating bodies and discussions on international reconstruction after World War I. Reduced round trip fares run December 8 to 11, 1916.
One of the finest style Hamiltonian bay mares in the South. This mare will work hard, is handsome, large for a survey or small for a buggy, and can trot fast. Also a small bay mare that trots fast. Both mares are supposed to be in foal and gentle enough for a lady to drive. I have cheaper horses and a pair of blocky pony mares. Also a registered dish face English Berkshire boar. CAUTHEN'S STABLE, Ralph Walker, Mgr. Phone 1177 Clayton St. MONEY TO LEND On Farm Lands or Improved City Property. We can secure foreign or local money for property loans without delay. SHACKELFORD & MEADOW, Attorneys Shackelford Building. tuth t
The Strand offers Bessie Barriscale and Chas Ray in A Corner in Colleens and Clara Kimball Young in Without a Soul. Elite shows Marguerite Clark in Wilk dower and Robert Connees with Mabel Trunnelle in The Martyrdom of Philip Strong. Saturday features Charlie Chaplin in Behind the Screen and Viola Dana in The Gates of Eden, plus Liberty at Elite with Lonesome Lake and Helen Gibson railroad drama.
Hartwell Georgia voters named J. R. Stephens justice of the peace, I. J. Phillips mayor, and T. A. Parks Sam Martin Lin der Vickery Teasley Bradbury to local posts with no opposition. Also notes on pine tar cough remedy and state and county tax due.
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