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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1917
Page
3
Fashion notes describe a tub voile home dress with a convertible front and no lining. The back waist forms a yoke, four piece skirt is pleated at the back gore, and pattern guides explain open width cutting and layout. Economical trimming ideas include self material bows and pearl buttons.
The text describes sewing steps for cuffs, seams, and pockets on a coat, noting notches and perforations to align with sleeve and front/back edges. It includes instructions for attaching the collar, lining, belt, and tassel, with optional beading and pocket edge details. Pictorial Review Patterns are sold in Athens by Sol J. Boley.
A fragmentary column surveys quotes on bravery from La Rochefoucauld and critiques sensational titles about girls and city life. The text mentions a Lisbon or Lis sult era remark and hints at seasonal changes in a city journal. It ends with a brief note on whooping cough and relief through breathing turpentine.
The Southeastern Land Show in Atlanta announces free farm giveaways to show attendees. Firms like Edwin P. Ansley Realty and A A Doonan pledge fifty acre plots or fifty farms, with strict merit-based selection by a Free Farm Committee and a five-year livestock-use requirement.
Associated Press reports former Navy Secretary Von L Meyer warning Congress of Constructive Patriotism that the United States must build a strong navy. He argues sea power shapes national destiny, warns inadequacy, and stresses minds, organization, training, and persistent mobilization for both Atlantic and Pacific readiness. He cites lessons from European war and Admiral Mahan’s study. He emphasizes preparation, force proportional to policy, and farsighted naval planning.
Commerce Ga January 26 Board of Trade held its annual banquet to promote the Atlanta and Anderson Interurban Railway. A lavish menu followed with speeches by local and regional figures on boards of trade cooperation, rail development, new industries, and national security, urging compulsory training and a prepared citizenry.
A sermon on the Logos presenting reverence as the first act of worship and the foundation for prayer and sacred space. It rebukes irreverence in modern life and warns that money changers in the temple symbolize the deepest threat to faith, urging reverent conduct toward God, ministers, and scripture.
Boreham cites the electric dry pile as a perpetual motion example. A celebrated Singer device made about 75 years ago at Oxford has reportedly chimed constantly for that entire period with no sign of energy loss. The true lifespan of such piles remains unknown.
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