Special Notice and Holiday Echoes in Athens Journal
Subscribers are urged to notify the business office promptly about delivery issues. A section notes that carriers cannot collect subscriptions or sell papers. The item mix references Secretary Lansing, Red Cross seals, moral emblems, and humorous asides on prices, Danish West Indies, wartime politics, Atlanta streetcar wage rises, and Christmas reflections in Athens, urging community acts of charity amid festive talk.
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Fate Delivery
Costly tongue miscue by Secretary Lansing sparks markets and diplomacy
The article blasts Secretary of State Lansing for an premature note on European belligerents that unsettled markets, caused losses to Americans, and threatened diplomatic miscommunication. It argues he overstepped, should have consulted the president, and notes the second note only clarified things, not justified the initial error.
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Europe
Wilson
Lansing
Inheritance and Income Taxes Rise Across States
A growing national shift toward taxing inheritances and incomes strengthens federal tax structure. The income tax is here to stay, with refinements improving fairness. Georgia’s inheritance tax has raised about one hundred fifty thousand dollars in two years, despite gaps in collection.
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United States
Republican Party
Georgia
Christmas Gift Exchange Cartoon Teaches Selfless Giving
A two-man Christmas scene shows one giver expecting return and facing disappointment, while the other gives with no expectation and gains a wealth of invisible treasure and a spiritual draft on the Hereafter. The cartoon contrasts motive and reward in giving.
Scouting And The Home Church School And City
Charles Edwin Fox explains how Scouting has worked in Philadelphia across home school church business city government. Parents embrace it. schools consider adoption. clergy welcome it. stores seek scouts for efficiency. courts see reform of delinquent gangs. city officials invite scouts to public functions and prizes.
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Charles Edwin Fox
Philadelphia
Council of the
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts of Philadelphia
Boyhood
Scout Movement
New York
Police Leutenant
War brides stock sell off shocks big concerns
Secretary Lansing's statement triggered a sale of over three million shares in the major war brides firms, imposing millions in loss on owners and reshaping market confidence.
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Lansing
Nervous Women Seek Relief Through Constipation Cure
A note suggests nervousness in women often stems from constipation and recommends Chamberlain's Tablets for quick relief and better digestion. The ad states the tablets are obtainable everywhere and invites advertising requests.
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Chamberlain’s
Genius Born in Ghetto to Lead Pianist Fame
Moses Boguslawski rose from Chicago ghetto roots to fame as a premier pianist after a chance encounter with Doctor Pachmann in a store. He showed prodigious talent early, earned money by performing in cafes, and later debuted in New York at Aeolian Hall, all without studying abroad. He credits intense self training and natural gift rather than formal overseas instruction.
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Moses Boguslawski
New York
Aeolian Hall
Chicago
Pachmann
Boguslawski
Boy Pitches 1000 Stones in Juvenile Court Penalty
Leonard Crowder ten years old completed a harsh sentence in Lynn Massachusetts juvenile court by throwing one thousand stones in a gravel pit over an hour and a half. Probation Officer Farmer counted the stones after Crowder damaged a companion's eye with a pebble. Crowder stated he had no more stones to throw as his arm grew limp.
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Lynn
Mass
Leonard Crowder
Ife
Henry T. Luminius
District Court
Thomas A. Farmer
Crowder
Lummis
High Living Is Dangerous Says Surgeons in Philadelphia
Clinics across Philadelphia hospitals attracted hundreds of Clinical Congress of Surgeons members who argued that high living leads to more operations than a simple life. Dr M F Rehfuss noted rich diets may increase stomach cancer risk and cancer may stem from excess protein in meats and rich foods.
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Philadelphia
Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America
M. FE. Rehfuss
Poor Girl Spurns Riches in a Country Life
Mary Smith, a Chicago girl adopted by James Pankhurst and wife in 1915 to be companion and sole heir, says she will return to Chicago. She rejects the bargain claiming money isn’t everything and she desires to live as she pleases, not in the country.
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Amboy
Mary Smith
Chicago
James Pankhurst
Hunters Bag Deer on Perkshire Trip With Four Champs
Otis Conn William Winters Newton Frost and Saymond J Snow each shot a deer on a hunting trip in Perkshire County. Authorities note fair conditions and successful pursuit with four trophies recorded among the party.
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Signs of the Times
Otis, Conn
William Winters
Newton Frost
Saymond J. Snow
Perkshire County
The Child Is King Today Christmas Thought
A Christmas reflection on faith seen through children and the nativity story. The author recalls school pageants and a friend’s card, stressing that only a childlike eye can perceive the real, invisible aspects of life and the Star of Bethlehem guiding humanity since the first Christmas gift.
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Bethlehem
Tribute to the Little Child in Christmas Message
A religious program praising children and the First Great Christmas Gift to the world. The message thanks God for children and urges maternal love and tenderness, marking the eve of a holy birthday with a call to gratitude for the child given to humanity.
Letters to Santa Claus from Jefferson in 1916
Three handwritten pleas to Santa from Jefferson Georgia children dated December 20 1916 request simple gifts. A six year old asks for a fish scales? no, a frish mall and register and an Anclsors sharpner. A twelve year old girl Meena Hardy asks for a big fruit candy nuts and a doll and asks for remembrance of Ford Oliver. A four year old girl Little Sarah Walton asks for a big doll doll carriage fruits candy nuts.
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Santa Claus
Anclsors Sharpner
Little Sister
Carrige
Ruel Blackwell
Strong St. 165
Jefferson, Ga
Santa
Meena ‘Hardy
Ford Oliver
Daisy Belle Walton
Santa Clause
Lottie Johnson
Sarah Walton
Announcement of Georgia eighth district congressional candidates
A dated collection of 1916 notices from Georgia voters announcing bids for the Sixty-fifth Congress and the long term starting March 4 1917. Candidates include James B Park Q L Williford A S J Stovall Thos J Brown Charles H Brand Julian B McCurry and T W Rucker, with dates December 1916 and January 11 1917.
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Eighth Congressional District
Congress
Georgia
James B. Park
Greensboro, Ga
Fighth
United States
J. Stovall
Eighth District
J. Brown
Samuel J. Tribble
Charles H. Brand
Athens
8. J. Tribble
House of Representatives
State Senate
Julian B
McCurry
Hartwell
T. W. Rucker
Seaboard Air Line Train Schedules Listed
The timetable lists departures for Seaboard Air Line trains numbers 11 17 5 29 30 6 18 and 12 with morning to evening times including 6 02 am 7 10 am 3 46 pm 6 18 pm 10 40 am 5 68 pm and 11 45 pm.
Georgia Railroad Timetable Effective September 3 1918
Eastern Time schedule for Athens trains includes No 60 daily at 8 35 a m leaving Athens No 52 daily except Sunday at 4 p m No 64 Sunday only at 4 30 p m No 51 daily except Sunday arriving at 12 59 noon No 53 daily arriving in Athens at 7 30 p m No 55 Sunday only arriving Athens at 12 30 noon.
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Georgia Railroad
Athens
Lodge Directory Itemizes Local Fraternal Meetings
St Elmo Lodge No 40 Knights of Pythias meets Mondays at 8 00 in Castle Hall Clayton St Visiting Knights invited Rev Troy Bratty C C T H Nicker son K of R Williams Lodge No 18 meets Mondays at Odd Fellows Hall Max Joseph Building Brethren invited C A Von Der Lieth N G J A Mealor R S Glenn Lodge No 78 meets Tuesdays at Odd Fellows Hall Max Joseph Building M Center N L K LUMPKIN Jr Athens B P O E No 790 meets second and fourth Wednesdays at lodge quarters corner Broad and Lumpkin St B F Took BR G H Palater Sec Mt Vernon Lodge F and A M Mt Vernon Lodges No 22 meets Thursdays at Masonic Hall Clayton St J H McKinnon WM INO G Quinn Bec Gee B Davis Camp 292 W O W meets Wednesdays at Woodmen Hall Max Joseph Building 3 30 p m first and third Wednesdays business end fourth degree team Visiting Sovereigns invited Woodmen Drill leadership details listed.
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St. Elmo Lodge
K. of P
Knights of Pythias
Castle Hall
Jester Building
Clayton Street
Troy Bratty
Athens
B. P
Lodge Quarters
Corner Brosd and Lumpkin Bt
B. F. Took
G. H. Palater
Mt. Vernon
Vernon Lodges
Masonic Hall
Max Joseph
J. H. M'Kinnon
W. M Ino
G. Quinn
Bec
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Athens Banner
Rowe
Athens Daily Banner
Red Cross
Denmark
Danish West Indies
Joe Pottle
Washington
Lambdin
Lttle Sonnleboy
Army
Atlanta
Dearie
Scouting
Massachusetts
N. P.M
Alabama
Kingdom of Heaven
Q. L. Williford
Athens, (A
Macon
Madicon
Appalachee
Greene County Railroad
Monroe
Bloodworth
Gainesville
St Belmont
Winder
The
Gainesville & Northwestern
Souther Railway
Southern Railway
All Pointe
Delly Ez. Sun
Sun
A. B. Williams
Commercial Ag
Shelton
Seaboard Air Line
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