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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1921
Page
3
Arthur Murray announces the children's dancing class will be resumed in Athens near future. The club plans a larger season this year with entertainments for the youngest dancers and a social program.
Circle 6 of the Missionary Society met Thursday afternoon to discuss raising funds for the circulating deficit and planned a Novelty Entertainment at Mrs. John Mell’s Milledge avenue home Saturday at 4 p.m. Beasie Paine was chosen Circle 6 leader for 1922, J. E. Cook treasurer, and all members urged to support. Refreshments provided by Mrs. E. L. Bussey and Mrs. W. A. Carlton. Admission 25 cents. Also notes Woman's Club meeting set for Tuesday at four with guests visiting from Atlanta and several local families mentioned in social updates.
London editors sharply critique France over its demand for a large undersea base as Washington discusses limiting submarine warfare. Papers weigh Root and Balfour plans, with some calling France unfriendly to Britain while others urge empathy for France’s position and the need for realistic naval policy.
Dividends totaling several hundred thousand dollars will be paid January 1 in Greenville. The American Spinning Company declares five percent semiannual on $525,000. Duncan Mill three and a half percent on $600,000 preferred stock. Judson Mill three percent semiannual on $264,500. F W Poe Manufacturing Company quarterly one percent on $2,000,000. Union Bleaching and Pressing Company five percent semiannual on $4 million. Piedmont four and a quarter percent on $100,000.
Paris (AP) British and French financiers and manufacturers gather at the French foreign office to discuss Europe’s economic crisis. Officials see the conference as a key step toward restoring peace economics, with Britain and France debating Germany and Russia’s roles in a future international conference.
Boston news reports the First Church of Christ Scientist announcing the revival of the churchs publishing society trustees. It notes the trustees were reinstalled, with the removal dispute and court involvement referenced in terse terms amid the legal proceedings.
The court ruled that the directors of the mother church hold power to remove trustees. Herbert W. Eustace and Paul Harvey, represented by Sherman L. Whipple, contest the directors jurisdiction. Lamont Rowlands of Picayune, Miss., whose removal was upheld, left the board. The trustees argue the matter rests with the court and deny any effective removal.
The European staff of the United States Shipping Board will be largely American by the new year under Chairman Lasker’s Americanization policy. Previously only 26 percent of bonus employees in Europe were American, and the drive to replace aliens with Americans has cut European staffing by about seventy percent.
At the 46th annual American Historical Association convention in St Louis Colonel C H Lanza declares everybody blundered in the September 29 1918 action of the Thirty fifth Division in France and its withdrawal for reorganization. He cites exhaustive study and officer reports with war department copies. The division included Missouri and Kansas National Guardsmen. Morgan P Robinson Virginia state historian mentions Washington Cornwallis parole discovery.
New York AP report notes Nat City Bank launches a compound interest department to attract spenders. Accounts opened with one dollar earn 3 1/2 percent interest semiannually. Bank official says deposits welcome from all, but aim is to build savings among the well-to-do who have not saved systematically.
Incomes vary by era, shaping savings approaches and priorities. The article notes how historical income patterns influenced personal finance decisions and long term security strategies.
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