Armies Prayer and Athens Social Notes Highlight War Era
A montage of wartime reflections with a 1862 prayer for nations and local society notes. Details of weddings in Athens including Miriam Pope Edwards and Ethel Drysdale Watson Collins with church ceremonies and attendees. Also reports on Burnett Sykes nuptials, social Circle engagement, and a notable violinist appearance at First Baptist.
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Frank Griffeth
SGA
First Baptist
Fr. Lindmer
Atlanta
Athens
First Baptist Church
Lindmer
Athens Woman's Club Meets at Lucy Cobb Monday
The Athens Woman's Club will meet Monday afternoon at four with Miss Rutherford at Lucy Cobb. All members are urged to attend as officer elections will be a key feature of the meeting.
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Emmanuel Guild
Emmanuel Church Guild
Woman's Club
Lucy Cobb
Athens Woman's Club
Miss Rutherford
Mid-Year Exams Hover Over Lucy Cobb Doors
In a Lucy Cobb Dots note the dreadful mid-term examinations descend, turning dread into reality as signs read Studying Keep Out and the campus fills with the constant muffled murmur of students studying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Cobb
Knitted Articles Needed At Once By Red Cross
Red Cross workers urgently request all knitted articles be delivered to the knitting room by tomorrow or Tuesday at the latest. The appeal stresses immediate completion and collection for relief efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
David Copperfield Reading At State Normal
Mr. Walter B Trippe a leading American orator and Emerson School of Oratory faculty member reads David Copperfield at the Normal School auditorium Tuesday January 29 at 8 o clock. Public invited admission 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Copperfield
State Normal
Walter B. ‘Trippe
Oneipf
Oratory
America
Emerson School of Oratory
Boston
Normal School
Starvation, not guns, key battle in war effort
The piece warns that starvation is the silent enemy in war and calls Americans to conserve food. It urges replacing wheat with corn and oats, meat with poultry and fish, and using butter substitutes and honey. It announces Mrs. Edward T. Brown as Georgia Education Committee head and cites Dr. Frances Bradley’s Georgia visit for child welfare work.
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Earth
America
Germany
Europe
France
Belgium
Poland
Serbia
Women defense units advance in wartime plans
Articles describe Georgia women joining national defense work, with Mrs. Ottley appointed to a new national advisory committee. County defense units form across states to coordinate war needs and report local resources while Camp Gordon officers visit Athens.
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Washington
Child's Bureau
Council of Netional Defense
Georgia
Woman's Committee
Council of National Defense
Ottley
National Democratic Committee
John K. Ottley
Democratic Party
W. 8. Gifford
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Edward T. Brown
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Howard McCall
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Thomas F. Green
Georgia Federation
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D. D. Morgan
Dorothy Weyth
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Josephine Wilkins
Mrs. Wilkins Norwood
Greenville, South Carolina
J. J. Wilkins
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M. J.lockhart
Clara Lockhart
Blanche Gwyn
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William John Russel
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Henry West
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Captain Ryman
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Nellie Peters Black
Z. L Fitzpatrick
Madison
R. T. Daniel
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J. B. Hayes
Montezuma
Frank Harold
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Floyd Trayn’ Ham
Frances Bond
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Mell McRee
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