Local Society Notes Highlight Early 1900s Social Scene
A flurry of society updates details guests visiting Athens, mothers hosting events, and club meetings. Highlights include Mrs. Wille Wells entertaining bridge parties, Miss Margaret Kimsey hosting a club gathering, and the Em el church auxiliary planning a Wednesday meeting. Also noted are births, travels, and upcoming entertainments tied to families and local organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Kimsey
Margaret
Henderson
Wan's Auxiliary
Woman's Auxiliary
Emel Church
Pretty Chorus in Margie Excites Local Audiences
Edwin McGregor of McGregor Incorporated promotes the Margie chorus to debut at the Colonial Theatre next Wednesday. He claims the chorus features the world’s most beautiful women and praises their refinement, likening them to Lorelei reincarnations. Josie Townsend, chosen by Anatol Garric as a chorus ideal, is among the cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin McGregor
McGregor Company, Incorporated
Two Continents
Margie
Colonial Theatre
McGregor
Lorelei
Josie Townsend
Anatol Garril
3 Wise Fools to Be Performed at Colonial Theatre
John Golden presents the comedy 3 Wise Fools at Colonial theatre on Thursday January 19. The show, praised for public welfare through laughter, features John W. Ransom as a principal fan maker among three old bachelors, with a history of successful runs in New York Chicago Boston Philadelphia London and popular worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Golden
New York
Colonial Theatre
Lightnin
Criterion Theatre
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia
London
Australia
The
Orient
John W. Ransoms
Hans Wagner
Pilsen
Letters To The People FOR GREATER ATHENS
Athens Banner readers urged to back local farms by creating city industries. Build packing houses canneries and tannery to offer markets for crops and cow hides, then add a shoe factory to process hides, aiding farmers merchants and bankers. J. E. Clements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Sentlemen
J. E. Clements
Tax reform urged in South Carolina session opening
The South Carolina legislature began its seventy fourth session midweek with leaders J B Atkinson and Wilson G Harry urging tax reform. They called for new revenue sources and relief from heavy burdens on real estate and personal property to ease the state tax load.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Columbia
D. C
J. B. Atkison
Spartanburg
House
Wilson G. Harry
Senate
Seven Cardinal Thoughts for the Modern Woman
New York actress Lydia Hoyt known as Julia Hoyt shares seven cardinal thoughts for modern women. She urges work and strong interests, fulfillment through achievement, maternity as self-fulfillment, personal mothering of a large family, resisting artificial social constraints, class snobbery both ways, and equal self-expression regardless of wealth, while noting her stage and film career and suffrage support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Rohe
New York
Lydia Hoyt
Wm. Faversham
Athens urged to build public park and center
Citizens and merchants urge Athens to create a public park and a central gathering space. Interviews call for factories, payrolls, riverfront recreation, a union depot, and improved sanitation. Local shop owners push for parks near Mitchell's Bridge and a Tallanee dam lake for boating and bathing, while others stress jobs and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Larry Gantt
Mitchell's Bridge
Tallanee
Henry Nealor
Athens
Athens Citizens Urge Growth and Housing Reform
A collection of citizen voices favors cash systems, enforced sidewalks, more housing, cheaper rents, and new factories. Residents push for manufacturing to employ labor, dairy facilities to boost farming, and broader city growth to educate, house, and support business ventures. Some stress avoiding profiteers and expanding banks and markets.
Pullman merger approved by ICC to buy Haskell and Barker
Pullman Co receives approval to acquire Haskell and Barker Car Co by issuing 165000 shares with a par value of 16500000. Mrs Bowen recounts a near fatal rat fire incident describing how RAT-SNAP saved her home in a promotional ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman
Washington
Pullman Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Haskell and Barker Car Company
Uric Acid Solvent Free Offer Advertisement
An old style medical ad promotes The Williams Treatment claiming it cures kidney and bladder troubles, rheumatism, and uric acid ailments. It offers one 85 cent bottle free to convince the reader, requests a 10 cent contribution for postage, and promises delivery by Parcel Post from East Hampton Connecticut. Established 1892.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Dr. D. A. Williams Co
P. D. Block
East Hampton
Conn
Mayor to Inspect Athens City Schools Friday Afternoon
Mayor George C. Thomas will conduct an inspection tour of the Athens schools this Friday afternoon to gain a clearer view of the schools’ needs. He will lead a party interested in the city’s educational status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
George C. Thomas
Board Of Education Members Form Party With City Officials
The party will be composed of board of education members, Superintendent G. G. Bond, C. D. Flanigen, John Mell and certain members of the city council, who had not been named Tuesday noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
G. G. Bond
C. D. Flanigen
John Mell
Fire at Coco Solo base destroys quarters and school
A fire at Panama’s Coco Solo submarine base last night burned the Bachelor officers quarters and the torpedo control school and damaged other buildings. Estimated loss reaches $70,000.
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Panama
Coco Solo
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Alice Adams
Cohen
Wille Wells
Notdge
Charles Aull
Charles
W. F. Watson
Y.ow. GA
WF. Watson
India
Watson
Chattanooga
Milas
Isabel Tate
Atlanta
McLaughlin
Ville, Ga
Winona Belli
William Burns
Mayesay
Wthussey
Misa Mamie Lu
Burns
Louisé Ho
W. D. Goodman
Loly Goodman
Charlotte
Carolina
W. R. Jennings
Jake
Horace
Len Minor Paul
Young Atlanta
Horace Holden
Mary Dozter
Miami
Fla
W. D. Branch
Young
Baxley
T. HM. Dozier
Hamilton Jones
Horton Geiger
Anderson
Iss Louie Morton
Augusta
Ey Stovall Chapel
Children of Confederacy
Millie
Lotheford
Ruthe
Rutherford
South
Hall
Vn Howard
Tod
Schuletts
Grace Love
Ashford
Are
Terence Anderson
Owen Colemans
Athlone
Professor
Madame Lustrar
Edward Odum
Judge
Hamilton McWhorter
Sarah Hushteatt
Reenville
Malcolm Fortson
Billups Phinizy
Thomas Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Wallington Irving
Joseph Jefferson
Parent
Parent-Teacher Association
Lamar Scott
Woman's Missionary Society
M. E
M. EB. Church
North Georgia
First Methodist Church
W. B. Higginbothem
West Point
E. W. Brogdon
Woman's Club
Hiller
Scott
P.T. Association
Nora Furtson
Intry Club
Nora Fortson
Blanton Fortso
Costenbarrell
Julius Walden
J. W. Wadlen
Audley Morton
Dorothy Gross
Milwaukee
Hazel Hodgson
Bation
Prince Ave
Mrs. LY Dig Hoyt
Barnerd Herald
W. W. Scott
Scott Hardware Company
Henry Mealor
Pete Petropoul
Broadway
M. Gold
R. F. Christian
Athens Fruit and Oyster Company
H. Rozenoff
Palace Market
Paddock & Company
Clayton Street
W. J. Gardner
J. L. Morris
Max Goldman
R. E. Foster
N. Goodman
Phillip Abelman
Winfield Cash Grocery Company
Tom Hodgson
King Hodgson Company
Pilmer
Dr. Kings
Michael
Rogers & Gallet
Mary Garden
Colgate’s
Dr. Lyon's
Forham’s
Colgate
Kolynos
FOLEY
Waters
Ile
Castile
Woodbury’ S
Ile Ile
Dyer Kiss
Pond’s
Woodbury’ S Facial
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