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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1922
Page
10
Demand the Financial Situation. the city faces hard times as merchants and farmers hold debts. Retail medicine and others adopt System. spirits lift, and improvement in business is expected. Rounds find more hopeful outlook. skies brightening.
The article notes Mr. Pittard urging leniency to debtors during hard times and praising a gradual country recovery. He argues flexible credit helps farmers and merchants avoid harsher losses, with examples of long-ago notes settled and a call for steady work to improve the economy.
Fragmentary text reports actions by a school to ban immodest attire. It mentions girls at a high school facing restrictions on skirts length and appearance with petitions or resolutions urging lighter skirts above the knee and standards for dress.
The report outlines a proposed merger of Sugar producing and refining interests including the Cuban Sugar Company the National Sugar Refining Company the West Indies Sugar Finance and related firms. The plan, as reported by the New York Herald, is under consideration and progress is underway.
Governor General Wood urged using general funds to aid the Philippine National Bank and to issue $6,000,000 in government bonds to cover deficits. The legislature passed a proposed $5,000,000 loan bill, which must still receive conference committee approval before final passage.
Statesboro GA will gain a new industry as a creamery is installed at the idle packing plant. Promoters say operation starts in a week, with a five gallon can of cream shipped for 16 to 25 cents. The venture aims to boost cattle raising and grain production in the county.
Local business leaders in Cordele Georgia secure financial backing for a grain elevator project promising to create a cash market for farm products. The plan places the operation under a leading, established businessman with broad local investor interest, with a final announcement expected next week.
An American religious figure arrives in England in 1906 declaring himself the divinely appointed successor to Jezreel. He identifies with the Jezreites and says he has come to complete the Jezreel Temple mission at a latter House in Gillingham Kent.
Gray Silver of the American Farm Bureau Federation urged that Muscle Shoals and related nitrate plants be developed without treasury funds. He told delegates at a Southern Farm Bureau conference that development would boost national waterpower and that cooperative marketing of cotton and other crops was discussed. Delegates planned to carry a message to Congress and attend the National Agricultural Conference starting Monday.
Professor A H White of the University of Michigan argues that Henry Ford offers the best deal for Muscle Shoals and opposes government control. White, a former wartime head of the nitrate project there, says a directors’ board would not risk others’ money as Ford does.
DUBLIN Associated Press Richard Croker, recently ill after returning to Ireland, remains confined to his room at Glencairn Sandford but can read newspapers now. In Toledo Ohio a thief trial of Tease C McDowell Pittsburgh millionaire accused of mailing fraud against Cities Service and Henry L Doherty Company was adjourned until Tuesday by Judge Killita in federal court.
Chile and Peru agreed to send representatives to Washington to resume talks on finishing the unfilled clauses of the Ancon treaty. The move followed Chile inviting Peru to participate in a plebiscite on Tacna and Arica sovereignty and was praised by observers as aiding regional border dispute settlements. A later sports quip about a swimming pool joke appears as stray text.
Delegates to the National Agricultural Conference began arriving in Washington for the opening session Monday. Many delegates with wives called at the agricultural department as Secretary Wallace and aides prepared final preliminaries. The department has gathered extensive data tracing state agricultural history to 1620.
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