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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1916
Page
8
Various notices and classified items: insurance availability and requests for agents, lending on real estate, housing rental on Hancock Avenue, request to move a house, sale of an oak sideboard, cigars available widely, request for a good man cook, advertisement for a National Cash Register, lunch options at Thornton's Luncheonette, and a fireless cooker wanted.
The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on deposits compounded monthly, with a January start. Rentals include a 6 room house on Harris Street and a 4 room on Davenport Street. Advertisements also note cooking oil, upholstered furniture refinishing, cigars, auto tire-buying, a lost broach, and a wheel muff invention with patent pending.
Two boys who lived next door fell out. Teddy avoids Raymond for three days, then explains to his father he has just lost his taste for him, not anger, as he prefers staying home with his sister.
The article recalls the Chanukah festival as a major historical and religious milestone. It links Antiochus IV Epiphanes’s efforts to force Greek customs on Jerusalem with the Maccabee resistance led by Mattathias and Judah Maccabee. The eight day rededication on Kislev 25 marks the victory at Beth Zur and the purification of the Temple, later linked to a legend of a single rediscovered oil cruse.
The article explains the Feast of Lights known as Channukah. It notes the miraculously lasting oil for eight days, the festival’s simple rituals, and the symbolic goal of kindling eight lights to inspire heart loyalty and zeal. It marks the festival beginning December 20 and Kisley 25.
Rev. S. R. Belk, the newly appointed pastor, spoke to a packed congregation Sunday in morning and evening services. He preached on the three essentials of a happy Christian life and a sermon on Opportunity. He urged member cooperation in outreach and pastoral work and emphasized weekly prayer meetings and Sunday services. His goal is to lead the church to its greatest year’s work before the next annual conference.
Major General Goethals, speaking to the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, urges abrogation of the Taft Panama agreement and full US sovereignty over the Canal Zone. He says the canal could pay if the US engages in commerce beyond shipping and tolls reform would benefit bond interest.
The passage argues that a man who achieves success quickly regains self-possession and presents an air of earned reward, treating his merits as naturally due and expected. It emphasizes a calm, matter of fact demeanor rather than boastfulness.
A Hazlitt saying about true friendship and fear of making enemies is quoted, noting how fear of opposition prevents genuine connections. It presents a provocative view on social bonds and scrutiny.
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