Appleton Mills Move to South Prompts Athens Appeal
The Appleton interests of Lowell Mass. announce moving cotton mill activity southward citing fewer working restrictions, better wages, tax exemptions, and proximity to supply. The piece urges Athens to attract mills with water power, available sites, and a strong raw cotton hub status, urging proactive inducements and civic effort to compete with southern cities.
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Appleton
Lowell
Mass
New England
Wxills
Appleton Mills
Engtt
Athens
Iether
Appletons
Georgia
Georgia Placing Law Creates Licensed Child Welfare Oversight
Under the Georgia Placing Law now in effect January first, giving away a child becomes tightly regulated. No person or agency may place a child without a license from the superior court, granted on recommendation by the State Department of Welfare after a thorough environment review. The law assigns state welfare a central role in protecting orphans and deserted children, ensuring placements foster good citizenship instead of leaving youths to uncertain destinies.
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Georgia
State Department of Welfare
White Way cleanup spurs city makeover and calls for pride
The city nears a fresh look as poles are installed for the White Way and a cleaner business district emerges. Property owners are urged to remove burn waste and repaint storefront fronts to impress visitors, with health reminders about litter and debris on corner lots.
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Clayton
Daily Sermonette Reflection on Faith Hope and Love
A brief sermonette quotes I Corinthians 13 13 about faith hope and love and notes the Bible defines Christian graces while life’s struggles reveal them. Henry Ward Beecher’s remark cautions that practice, not doctrine alone, forms virtue.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Why Shouldn't They Why Shouldn't They Poem and Fashion Fragments
A historical poem critique questions if Germany should pay for wartime damage, noting economists dispute and a satirical tone on Germany's finances. The piece contrasts postwar reparations with France and includes a 1922 copyright note. It also samples fashion prose on spring frocks and taffeta styles, reflecting era style.
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Germany
France
Fritz
NEA
Eight Houses and Trees Logic Puzzle
A man owns a large house with eight small houses around it and two circles of trees as shown. He rents the small houses while keeping the outer tree circle intact. The puzzle asks how he divides the land or arrangement. In a separate note a man sells an automobile for 200 dollars, buys it back for 190, then sells again for 220, ending with 220 dollars. Common answers 20 or 40 are incorrect.
Did It Ever Occur To You A Little of Everything
A humor piece by Hugh Rowe recounts a double identity in Athens where a banker and an insurance man are mistaken for each other. Anecdotes include mistaken inquiries about policies, a bank director mistaking a large deposit, and a light Civil War anecdote about a Confederate and Union scout sharing a hymn. The piece blends social gaffes with a wartime reminiscence and ends with a Civil War vignette.
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Ontario
Mei
States
Canada
Hugh Rowe
Athens
Addresz
College Avenue
Broad Street
American State Bank
John J. Wilkins
Georgia National Bank
Sunday Morning Thoughts in a New Year 1923
J A Bell writes that the first Sabbath of 1923 offers a twofold chance to reflect on the past and look to the future with hope. He urges humble dependence on God and meditation on destiny, urging readers to anchor themselves in faith as they enter unknown days.
Millinery Techniques Describe Turbans and Embellishments
A brief note outlines millinery methods for small close-fitting turbans using rainbow haircloths and glycerin sprays for ostrich or aigrette effects. It notes larger felt and straw shapes are fully covered with yarn embroidery or hand painted designs.
Pecan Industry Is Souths Newest Growth Dream
The article argues Georgia and the South should cultivate pecans to rival cotton. It highlights Alabama and Americus as centers, urges Northeast Georgia foothills as ideal, notes pecans’ rising global value, strong demand from English markets and candy makers, and criticizes importing foreign nuts as unnecessary.
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Georgia
South
South Georgia
Albany
Americus
Blue Ridge
Brazil
England
Georgie
Bacoy
Lexington
Athens
Sparta
Jackson County
Georgia Pecan Industry Urged Through Grower Cooperation
An Albany meeting is planned to organize Georgia pecan growers into a cooperative marketing system to boost home and export sales. The piece compares Georgia to California almonds, noting how unified marketing raised prices and wealth, and promotes nurseries and several Georgia groves as models for rapid growth and earlier yields.
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Germany
Georgia
South
Frank Lipscomb
Athens
Mitchell's Bridge
Jester Nurseries
Winder
Frank C. Shackelford
Hancock County
Sparta
Albany
Georgia Organizes Cooperative Pecan Growers Association
The state moves to form a cooperative for pecan growers aiming to unite producers under a common agency. Officials urge growers to join this state led effort to improve prices, bargaining power, and market access for pecan crops.
Snap Shots by W H Faust muses on life and current events
A literary digest style column remarks on keeping pace with times without heavy reading, the expanding vocabulary, vitamin use, humor as candy, taxes from war, Europe’s debts, prohibition zeal, unions and farmers, and mentions Ford and Rockefeller as rich figures funding cars, gas, and hospitals.
New University Catalog Printed
The university announces a forthcoming catalog with a full curriculum description for the State College of Agriculture and other branches, plus a complete faculty and student register. Printing aims for a high grade paper, an attractive cover, and distribution within the next eight days.
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T.W
Brinter
State College of Agriculture
Uni
Costume Slips With Pleated Side Panels
A description of new costume slips made from plain crepe de chine featuring plain panel fronts and backs with pleated side sections. The hem is finished with two stitched hems around the edge and the top is described as open.
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