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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner details its 1832 establishment, editor H. J. Rowe, and mail delivery options with annual and half year rates. It requests prompt carrier delivery notifications for late or missing papers and outlines accepted payment methods.
The column rails at political leaders and profiteers while praising liberty and wartime sacrifice. It contrasts German ownership of breweries with U.S. beer policy, notes pay for French soldiers versus American pay, and laments prohibition trends and new non-alcoholic drinks amid a dry law.
Poem laments war casualties and praises angels of victory across battlefields and buried wires. It calls for an end to world despair and a clean world through heroic sacrifice, urging political leaders to devise a wartime peace plan.
The German chancellor rejects peace without annexations, aiming to retain Belgium and other conquered lands if victorious. He and the Kaiser back a thorough anti democratic stance, insisting Germany will fight to the end. The piece urges American unity and sustained effort to speed victory.
An opinion asserts Congress must pass a food control bill to empower the president to curb profiteering during wartime. The writer denounces high prices on coal flour corn wool and other necessities and calls for price ceilings excluding fair producer profits while punishing speculators and middlemen with legal action. Action is urged without delay.
Comptroller General Wright releases figures indicating Georgia is about $500000 better off than pessimists claim. The state can sustain current appropriations for education and even fund slight increases if legislators focus on tax law reforms.
A type cartoon portrait recalls a native German naturalized in America who loved the Old Fatherland and his new country. He fought Prussianism and the Kaiser for America and for the client Old Germany, embodying dual loyalty through the Vision of the Stars and Stripes.
Dr. F Wood Jones argues in Arboreal Man that the human body is not the peak of evolution and is inferior in many respects to mammals and even lower organisms. He suggests arboreal origins shaped the human limbs, with primates diverging after retaining primitive bones and muscles. The piece contrasts human anatomy with primitive forms and cites a London Lancet review.
The Nation's Business notes that seventy five years ago salt works in western Pennsylvania faced a petroleum aversion. It says Chinese repugnance to crude oil drives abandonment of wells with high oil to brine ratios, yet they accept refined petroleum and even tin cans as essential goods, contrasting with South Sea Islander reliance on coconuts.
A conversation notes that a family sold their house for three thousand dollars above their purchase price but later learns they must spend two thousand dollars more than the sale price to obtain another home. The exchange highlights ironic costs and unexpected hardship.
A dialogue scene shows Miss Oldgirl reacting to Mr. Decker's sudden gesture while a separate item extols Japan as the world’s cheapest postal service with two sen about seven tenths of a penoy for letters to travel.
The Strand shows Louise Glaum in Love or Justice and Charité Chaplin in The Immigrant with new and elite features including Marguerite Illington in Sacrifice and Dorothy Phillips in A Doll's House. Wallace Reid headlining Big Time, her and Molly King, plus Charlie Chaplin and Viola Dana appearances headline weekends.
An old style advertisement blends health guidance urging mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for children's stomachs and bowel cleansing. It touts a gentle laxative effect, with directions on bottles and emphasis on preparedness for summer colic or diarrhoea, plus a sideline about a millionaire married man and a Chamberlain's medicine suggestion.
Legal notices announce Kate Arrington Jnc libel for divorce from John N Arrington in Clarke County Superior Court October 1917. Also listed are various probate cautions and administrations in Clarke County Georgia with notices to show cause by August 1917.
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