The Athens Daily Banner Subscription Rates and Notices
The Athens Daily Banner lists delivery options and rates including five dollars per year, two ninety cents or seventy-five cents for shorter terms, with accepted remittance methods. Readers are urged to report delivery issues. Special notes warn carriers against collecting payments. The piece surveys WWI era international diplomacy, weather, and a poem-like quip, then highlights the Wyoming Plan of Military Training for high school boys and its civic aims with details from E A Walker.
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Athens
Post Office
Wyoming
Cadet Corps
Lfe
E. A. Walker
American Review of Reviews
Troublesome Emigration Agents Prompt Southern Law Enforcement
Georgia counties report emigration agents enticing black workers to move north. The piece argues a strict enforcement of the law is needed to prevent labor disruption and farmer losses. It notes returning workers from the north are common and urges action to stop recruitment schemes.
Rental bid debate over Western and Atlantic Railroad lease
Officials weigh a rumored 50 000 dollar monthly bid for the Western and Atlantic Railroad and its real property for 47 years. The piece argues the state must secure fair profit, prevent monopoly and guarantee extra rental proceeds beyond the lessee’s gains while protecting the railroad from undue competition.
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Western & Atlantic Railroad
Western & Atlantic
New Year Reflections in a Morning Cartoon
A single year grows familiar with the past as the speaker notes how the newborn year resembles its departed predecessor. The cartoon voice imagines the era aging toward the familiar cycle of time and memory.
Words Speak the Inner Self Says D G Bickers
Fragment from a reflective piece by D G Bickers on speech and honesty. It argues that spoken words reveal true self and cannot be recalled once voiced, urging careful communication to avoid misery or misplaced happiness.
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D. G. Bickers
Georgia Railway and Power to Start Six Percent Dividends
Avlanta Ga Jan 5 The Georgia Railway and Power Company the state s largest corporation at 20 million dollars has signified it will begin the regular payment of six per cent dividends this year and has begun January 1 1917 the payment of four years of accumulated unpaid dividends. The company seeks approval for scrip payments to cover the back dividends and partial bonds to refund and finance ongoing improvements.
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Avlanta
Georgial Railway and Power Company
State Railroad Commission
The
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
Railroad Commission
Georgia Railway and Power Company
Lead Kindly Light at Jennie Winston Funeral in Alton
The hymn once loved by McKinley, Lead Kindly Light, was played at the funeral of Jennie Winston who died amid a suicide linked to white-slave dealers. The community witnessed a moving rendering as the Little Girl Next Door appears at the Colonial this week.
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President McKinley
Jennie Winston
Young Society
Alton
McKinley
Colonial
Invitations omit great road meeting from program
The Athens Chamber of Commerce and Georgia College of Agriculture invite the Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Association Georgia Breeders Association State Horticultural Society and a Boil Weevil Conference to a January 15–17 1917 gathering at Agricultural Hall Speakers include Dr Tait Butler Prof Thomas Shaw and others The great highway meeting of the 17th was omitted by oversight but will be a major event with delegations from many counties and remarks by Thomas W Layless Clark How ill and others The invitation should include the highway conference in the Chamber of Commerce's plan.
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Athens Chamber of Commerce
Georgia State College of Agriculture
Georgia Dairy and Live Stock Association
Georgia Breeders’ Association
State Horticultural Society
Agricultural Hall
Tait Butler
Progressive Farmer
Memphis
Tenn
Thomas Shaw
Great Northern Railway
St. Paul
C. A. Keffer
Extension
University of Tennesse
Knoxville
J. A. Evans
U. S. Department of Agriculture
W. M. McFadden
American Poland-China Record Association
Chicago
Ill
R. J. Evans
American Curve Jersey Association
Wm. H. Caldwell
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Peterboro
N. H
W. T. Anderson
Macon Telegraph
Auasta
Thia City
Atlanta
Thomas W. Layless
Augusta Chronicle
Clark Howill
Atlanta Constitution
Chamber of Commerce
Home grown corn meal for sale in Athens mill
An Athens mill on Thomas Street next to Bell Grocery Co. now offers high quality, home grown corn meal ground on old time mill rocks. O C Bell produces light white meal for bread and a delicious alternative to stock mill market meals, promising pure flavor and distinctiveness for local customers.
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Athens
O. C. Bell
Thomas Street
Bell Grocery Co
Congressional probes target Wall Street leak case
Washington January 6 congressional investigators plan to hear more witnesses Monday in the probe of an alleged leak of the president’s peace note to Wall Street. Secretaries Lansing and Tumulty will testify and subpoenas go to seven newspaper men and to Thomas W Lawson Bernard Baruch Charles H Sabin and managers of two telegraph firms. Lawson is claimed to be the principal beneficiary with a $300 000 gain.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wall Street
House Rules Committee
Lansing
Tumulty
New York
New York Evening Sun
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Bernard Baruch
Charles H. Sabin
Guaranty Trust Company
Representative Chiperfield
Ilinois
Lawson
Gardner
Massachusetts
Allied reply to president’s peace note eyed in Rome talks
Indications rise in Allied circles that the reply to the president’s peace note will echo the Central Powers response but add features clarifying the desire to continue negotiations. The Rome meeting of Allied premiers is seen as crucial for shaping America's role and the overall peace attitude. The reply is expected by week’s end.
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Associated Press
Washington
Whch
Rome
America
Smuggling Report Triggers Cavalry Sweep Near Laredo
Reports say a flot of smugglers is attempting to cross the Rio Grande forty miles west of Laredo. K Troop, 14th U S Cavalry, rushed to the area amid warnings of increased border activity.
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Associated Press
Larredo
Texas
Rio Grande
Mexico
Here
14Th U. S. Cavalry
Alumni State College of Agriculture Holds Third Annual Banquet
Alumni of the State College of Agriculture plan the third annual banquet at the Georgian Hotel this week. The group, formed three years ago, includes nearly all graduates and previously backed a plan to fund a $10,000 campus building for the Agricultural Quarterly. The program will feature addresses by two honorary members, with J. K. Giles as president, W. F. Dobbs as executive chair, and E. C. Westbrook as secretary and treasurer.
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State College of Agriculture
College of Agriculture
Agricultural Quarterly
J. K. Giles
W. F. Dobbs
E. C. Westbrook
Georgia candidates for Congress in Eighth district race
Multiple notices announce candidacies for the Sixty-fifth and long term Congress from Georgia s Eighth district. James B Park Q L Williford A B I Stovall Thos J Brown Charles H Brand Julian B McCurry T W Rucker reference past service and pledges to duties as elections set for January 11 1917 and March 4 1917 in Athens Greensboro Hartwell and surrounding counties.
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Eighth Congressional District
Congress
Georgia
James B. Park
Greensboro, Ga
United States
Stovall
Eighth District
Thos, J. Brown
Lemuel J. Tribble
G. J. Tribble
House of Representatives
State Senate
Julian B.mccurry
Hartwell, Ga
Samuel J. Tribble
T. W. Rucker
Seaboard Air Line Southbound and Northbound Departures Listed
Train schedule shows Seaboard Air Line departures times for southbound trains numbers 11 17 6 29 and northbound numbers 30 6 18 12 with morning and evening slots including 6:02 7:10 3:46 6:18 10:40 5:62 and 11:45 a.m. to reflect service intervals.
Georgia Railroad schedules change September 3 1916
Eastern time table lists Athens departures and arrivals for trains 60 62 4 51 53 and 55. Train 60 leaves Athens 0 35 daily. train 62 leaves 4 pm daily except Sunday. train 4 runs Sunday only at 4 20 pm. train 51 arrives Athens 12 59 noon daily except Sunday. train 53 arrives 9 30 pm daily. train 55 arrives Athens 12 30 noon on Sundays only.
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Tims
Athens
Gainesville Midland By schedule timetable No 18 1916
Train No 2 leaves Athens at 7 20 p m for Belmont Winder and intermediate points. Train No 4 leaves Athens at 2 20 p m with connections to Gainesville North of Georgia Railroad and Southern Railway. Train No 1 arrives Athens at 11 40 p m and Train No 4 at 6 40 p m daily.
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Athens
Belmont
Winder
Monroe
Georgis
Gainesville
Northweeterr
Southern Railway
Athens Branch Southern Railway Daily Train Departures
Daily train schedule for Southern Railway Athens branch lists departures to all points at 2 am 1:00 pm 3:15 pm and 6:30 pm with arrivals at 12:40 pm and 6:1 pm plus Sunday exceptions and contact numbers for B Williams and B Shelton for information and tickets.
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Sun
B. Williams
B. Bhelton
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