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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1919
Page
7
Army recruiting officials announced a one year enlistment option for men aged eighteen to forty. The ruling, received yesterday by Sergeant Fisher at the local recruiting station, allows enlistment without prior service experience.
Brussels reports 800000 unemployed in Belgium with only two of sixty blast furnaces operating. German destruction left most steel plants unusable. 35,000 metal workers dwindled to about 200. Recovery aims for twenty five furnaces and 44 percent of pre war output by year end. linen industry adding 6000 workers. English 54 hour week adopted.
Former Texas governor James E. Ferguson won a $10,000 libel verdict against the Houston Post in district court. He sought $100,000. The decision comes after a heated gubernatorial race coverage.
Hundreds of soldiers passing through Athens on their way to France and Camp Shelby were fed by the Athens Canteen. The first train carried 332 soldiers of the 805th Pioneer Infantry Bear Cats and the 229th Engineers from Raleigh North Carolina. A second group from Hamlett of 386 men from the 318th service battalion and 326th service battalion traveled to Camp Shelby. A sixth cavalry detachment led by Col. Frederick F Foltz also stopped at Fort Oglethorpe with sailors aboard.
Washington edged New York 1 to 0 while Philadelphia defeated Boston 2 to 0 in the American League. In the National League Boston beat Philadelphia 3 to 2 and New York won 6 to 3 over Brooklyn. Other results include Pittsburg 4 Chicago 1 Cincinnati 4 St. Louis 1 and Southern League games Atlanta 5 Mobile 9 Little Rock 4 Memphis 3 Birmingham 7 New Orleans 3 Chattanooga 4 Nashville 3. Advertise your wants in The Banner.
Sergeant Hill of Florence South Carolina who was wounded in the Argonne Meuse battles during the Rhine drive has entered the University of Georgia Summer School yesterday. He participated in the big battles as German forces were being pushed back across the Rhine.
Five men were accepted at the Army Recruiting Station during the first three days of July and sent to Atlanta. The group includes William B. Hardman Cornelius F. Freeman and Nipp P. Brock from Nicholson Georgia Johnson D. Durham of Woodville Georgia and Will Collins of 439 River Street Athens Georgia.
Fair Friday prevailing across Athens and vicinity with a chance of rain in extreme south Georgia. Light showers reported in Florida and southwestern Texas while cotton belt remains mostly fair. Northeast Mississippi and west of the river stay fair with local heavy rains at Denver and Huron. Temperatures are cooler in Alabama Georgia and toward West Virginia but warmer north and west reaching 74 degrees at 7 am as far north as St Paul. Overall conditions mildly favorable for isolated showers in extreme southern Georgia. fair elsewhere.
Friday screenings show The Lion's Den and Dam aged No Good with Bert Lytelle Sunshine coandy in a mixed bill. Pauline Frederick stars Woman of Index with Fatty in Out West. Saturday features Three X Gordon and Moon shine along Strand bill with Jack Pickford in Great Expectations and Marla Walcamp in The Red Glove.
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