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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1917
Page
6
Short notes list various ads including insurance savings, loans, moving services, autos for hire, stenography work, rooms for rent, furniture refinishing, and catarrh cure claims. Multiple small notices mention real estate, car sales, and local business promotions with contact details and dates.
City taxes due for the first installment from July 15 through August 1. Delinquents will incur a $1.50 cost assessed against all who fail to pay by August 1. City Marshal Q E O Farrrell notes enforcement.
Williams and Shouse of 151 Broad Street advertise roofing and radiator repair services with a call for trial work and a price that will suit. The ad also promotes Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for summer readiness. Weather forecast predicts fair early week with possible thunderstorms and seasonal temperatures for the South Atlantic and East Gulf States.
Doctor Von Bethmann Hollweg resigns as German Imperial Chancellor and is succeeded by Michaelis, Prussian under secretary of finance and food. The move signals a broad, unsettled shift, with the crown prince opposing changes and a potential imperial parliament discussed to bridge current German difficulties.
The House approved a war department bill totaling 640 million dollars for the construction of 22 000 airplanes without a roll call. Amendments align aviation corps draft ages with general conscription laws. Total personnel are about 110 000. the measure now heads to the Senate.
Associated Press reports Russian forces push forward in eastern Galicia after Kornilov drive. Novi Iea village captured southwest of Kalusz amid stalled German counterattacks. German war office notes activity near Dvinsk and Smorgon, while Belgian front sees stiff fighting near Lombaeertzyde. Britons suffer heavy losses as attacks fail near Cambro Court region.
The United States hosts Arizona's deported miners camping on the desert between Columbus and the Mexican border. A canvas town has sprung up on the site of Pershing era refugee camps as the men labored all afternoon in the blistering sun to build the camp.
July 14 in Flat River Mississippi the crowd of paraders shows a resolve to clear the district of foreign mine workers Italians Russians Poles and their families depart for Bonne Terre by train or wagon as the government acknowledges that German insurers may carry information to enemy nations.
The president issued a proclamation prohibiting German insurance companies from writing marine or war risk insurance in the United States. It also forbids American firms from reinsuring with them. Payment on existing contracts is suspended during the war, except for vessels already at sea.
A wartime England quip reports wood shortages and a slapstick misadventure as a watchman awakens without his wooden leg. A passerby jokes the thief stole it, and the watchman retorts that his wife takes the leg each night and brings it back in the morning.
Fireless cookers can bake potatoes as well as ovens. Place the largest heater over the gas flame, arrange potatoes close together, and turn once or twice in thirty minutes. Move to the cooker, cover, and in another thirty minutes they are done.
Prime Minister Hughes spoke to about 20,000 people in Sydney as 600 Light Horse horses entered Martin Place without riders. He urged enlistment and within ten minutes every horse had a rider, the scene generating intense excitement as Australians were called to serve.
A simple trap uses moist cornmeal inside a thimble and a small bowl placed upside down over it. The mouse tunnels under the bowl to reach the meal, nudging the thimble outward and causing the bowl to slide down and trap the mouse.
A reflective line contrasts fortunes of the weaker sex with fortune and misfortune, referencing the Philadelphia Record. It notes popular phrases and challenges stereotypes about strength and gender.
A wry exchange features a conductor asking for a berth number and Uncle Hiram replying with the date July 10, 1865, in a Puck cartoon caption.
Instruction advises washing ceilings before rewhitewashing. Apply common flour starch to brush, then wash off before it dries to remove soil along with the starch.
A fragmentary dialogue riffing on a miswritten note and humor about weathering a spelling test. The exchange touches on fears of a spell and a joke about a kitchen food dictator.
The article recounts how Beloit Wisconsin derived its name from a settlers meeting in 1836. A random pick of letters inspired the coined form Beloit, echoing Detroit in sound and deemed pleasing and original, replacing the former New Albany name.
Eye doctors say white clothing harms little children’s eyes but few youngsters will seek treatment after a brief exposure. The article notes a limited rush for visits among children who wore white garments for a short period.
Windmill generation at a German technical school shows a plant could supply light and water for 100 people at an estimated cost of 125 dollars per year.
In a church collection a young boy, seated outside designated child seating, exclaimed I m with my mother as he contributed. This moment highlights a child’s realization of shared responsibility during a Sunday service.
A child watching a steamboat for the first time misidentifies it as a railway engine taking a bath, remarking to his mother with wide eyed wonder. The scene captures a humorous misperception of transportation craft during a sea voyage era.
A New York doctor has created an apparatus allowing a single surgeon to perform blood transfusions without assistance, promising to streamline operations and reduce need for extra staff during critical procedures.
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