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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1923
Page
6
A vintage ad urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup to infants and children to ease constipation. It touts a fruity taste that opens the bowels, claims a teaspoonful can prevent illness, and warns to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup with proper bottle labeling to avoid imitations.
Buy Diamond Dyes and follow simple directions to dye or tint wool silk linen cotton or mixed fabrics. Worn dresses skirts waists coats and draperies become like new. Dyes never streak spot or run as guaranteed by the ad.
A Milton Bronner inspired look at Englands rail merger. Britain amalgamates railways into four systems effective January 1 with a rates tribunal and labor councils. The plan aims to cut wasteful competition, stabilize charges, and share excess earnings with the public, while balancing ownership and state control interests.
Two tribunals will oversee railway pay and conditions. The Central Wages Board, with eight company and eight employee reps, includes four from the National Union of Railwaymen and two from the Society of Engineers and Firemen. An appeals path leads to the National Wages Board.
The text outlines a six member railway wage board with equal company and employee representation plus user reps. It lists four major railways in Britain Southern Great Western London Midland and Scottish and London and North Eastern with details on routes mileage locomotives coaches and freight cars and notes a parliamentary committee nominated chair by the labor minister.
Poverty-stricken as Germans may be, there were places where they left behind substantial cash assets after the war. Argentina Chile and other South American locales held German private funds in banks from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro, protected from alien property claims while nations leaned Allied. Funds accumulated as Germans abroad could not return home, fueling wartime profits.
Germans, flush with neutral trading routes and ready money, outmaneuver British and Allied firms as the armistice ushers in a cash flood. Allies face scarce funds while German buyers gobble bargains forced by the market downturn, reshaping postwar commerce.
Twenty people are reported dead and many seriously injured when the top story of the Tageblatt building fell on Wednesday. The mechanical and criterion departments of the newspaper were also damaged in the collapse.
WATERFORD Ireland Two men named O Reilly and Fitz Gerald residents of Cork were executed at the Waterford infantry barracks Thursday. Both had been found guilty of obtaining arms. Oil should not be allowed to collect on wires. Drawn Trout limited supply. Entroe cel made fresh Donnets Cream Puffs Harding Better Returns to Office Jones Sausage Jones Ham Extra Select Oysters Our Mission is to Serve Our motto Quality plus Service. Washington President Harding returned to his desk Thursday for the first time since he was taken ill with grippe more than a week ago. He had been confined to his bed and later remained in his room under care of the White House physician Brig Gen B Sawyer. The past few days, however, he has been almost normal.
The Turkish Bath and Massage Department at the Young Men's Christian Association is run by Paul Lavigne with C W Jones supervising. Members and nonmembers who pay for services may access the treatments including electric light baths, warm showers, cold plunges, and full body massage. Many leading Athens business men use this facility.
Dr Sawyer notes a flier stating a worker remains from work to rest after a strenuous year with no vocation. In industry news, forty railroads now employ motor trucks for short hauls, signaling a shift in logistics practices.
Doctors warn no medicine cures colds until the liver is active and prescribe Calotabs as a nausealess calomel tablet. One or two tablets at bedtime with water aims to activate the liver, purge the system, and end the cold by the next morning. Genuine Calotabs sold in sealed packages often at thirty five cents for large family sizes and ten cents for small sizes.
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