Short Notes of Interest and Local Ads
A collection of small advertisements and notices from The Banner includes insurance offers from Lipscomb and notes from The Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest. Local services are listed by Green & Michael loan dept and Williams Bros moving. Also ads for autos for rent, furniture refinishing, a whitewood board request, sale of a computing scale, housing requests, a college avenue apartment to rent, and a Philatheas class invitation at the Baptist Tabernacle with welcome for visiting Philathea girls.
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Philatheas of the Baptist Tabernacle
City tax second installment due July 16 to August 1st
The second installment of city taxes is due from July 16 to August 1. Taxpayers who fail to pay by August 1 will incur a $1.60 cost. The notice warns actions will be issued against delinquents by City Marshal G. E. O’FARRELL.
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E. O'Farrell
Williams & Shouse Offer Radator Repair Trial Painting
Williams and Shouse advertise repair of old leaky radiators and roof painting at 161 Broad Street and 151 Broad Street with machinery installed for the work. They invite customers to give a trial and promise competitive pricing.
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Williams & Shouse
James H. Kelley Returns as Athens Post Office Superintendent
James H. Kelley has come back to Athens to resume his role as superintendent of mails at the Athens post office. He enlisted in an officers training camp in Atlanta and performed efficiently there and may enter service in a department this fall. Kelley resumed his duties Monday and is quickly organizing work to public satisfaction.
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James H. Kelley
Atlanta
Athens
Kelley
Athens Y. M. C. A
Quillian
Mrs Ruby Fields Died Yesterday at Home
Mrs Ruby Fields died at 198 Oconee street yesterday morning after a short illness. She is survived by her husband E C Fields, her parents Charles and Mrs Allgood, four brothers Harry Charlie Milton and Marion Allgood, two sisters Minnie Mae Jones and Edna Allgood. The funeral will be this afternoon at 2 30 at Oconee Street Methodist Church conducted by Rev Dick and Rev Sears. Interment will be Mizpah cemetery. The family has the sympathy of many friends.
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Ruby Fields
Oconee Street
E. C. Fields
Charles Allgood
Harry
Charlie
Milton
Marion Allgood
Minnie Maé Jones
Edna Allgood
Oconed Street Methodist Church
Coal Operators Promise Government Supply at Fixed Later Price
Four Eastern state coal operators met government officials and assured they will meet all coal requirements. The price to be fixed at a later date, officials said.
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Associated Press
Weahington
German Minister Michaelis Recalled From Norway
A Berlin paper publishes the recall and retirement of Herr Michaelis the German minister to Norway. The notice appears in the official announcement dated July 17.
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Norway
Associated Press
Amsterdam
Berlin
Herr Michaelis
Camp Chattooga Letter From W Forbes Describes Camp Activities
Special to Banner details Camp Chattooga near Tallulah Ga. with Lake Monte trips, canoeing, and a field day featuring fried chicken. Forbes notes clean tents, strong camp spirit, plans to leave on the 23rd, and a Tallulah show by Mr. Rogers. He recalls many former campers joining the armed services.
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Chattooga
Tallulah Ga
Tallulah
Lake Monte
Chatooga
Cornelia
Athens
Lula
Southern
Sellers Rogers
Rogers
Tallulahians
Patience and Self Possession in Daily Life
A quotation from Mrs. Lyno Linton emphasizes patient possession of the soul, urging calm endurance of unchangeable annoyances and the broad reach of patience in social relations and daily challenges. It contrasts patient steadiness with impulsive energy in handling life’s evitable evils.
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Lyno Linton
March and Macaroons Cake History
The March cake macaroons, once called March-panes from Martispanes, have disputed origins. Some link them to Marcus Apicius the epicure, others to Roman priests dedicated to Mars. The macaroon recipe is described as very old.
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Marcus Apicius
Rome
Mars
Feeling Your Pulse in Spring Health and Awakening
Thorean meditation links personal health to sympathy with morning and spring. If nature’s awakening fails to move you or banish sleep, your life’s spring has passed. The reflection urges noticing the pulse through the season’s first birdsong and dawn.
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Thoreans
Wishes That Come True
A short reflection on how good wishes toward others seem to return as happiness for the giver. The piece suggests sincere goodwill toward friends enhances the world’s joy and that hopeful thoughts for others can fulfill the wishful heart.
They Are the Same Life and Death, a Stoic Dialogue
A Roman Stoic philosopher argued that life and death are indistinguishable. When pressed why not die, he replied that there is no difference between them, illustrating a paradox about existence and mortality.
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Lfe
Picnic Shelter Built In Tacoma Cedar Stump
In a Tacoma public park the hollowed cedar tree stump serves as a picnicking shelter with a platform on top used as a bandstand reflecting a creative reuse of urban park space.
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Tacoma
Wash
The Downgrade Test of Hard Times in American Labor
Douglas Malloch’s lines celebrate grit on the uphill grind and warn that the downgrade is the true test. The poem contrasts easy roads with tough work, urging steadiness when pressure grows and urging laborers to brace themselves and stay the course.
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Douglas Malloch
American Lumberman
Royal Influence Ends Ear Cropping Tradition in Dogs
A century of debate over dog ear cropping ends after a letter from the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, assures adherence to non mutilation. Queen Victoria’s kennels never cropped tails, and royal stance convinces Kennel Club and German clubs to abandon ears cropping, despite a thousand-year claim.
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Victoria
Kennel Club
Country Life
Be Good to Her Comfort on a Cold Day
A woman attempts to buy a newspaper on a frigid day, performing the steps to extract a penny from a purse. The Ohio State Journal notes the scene as reflective of gender inequities and proposes sympathy or support such as the vote or a mother's pension.
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Ohio State Journal
How to Choose Calico
Guide on selecting calico by examining the selvedge for straightness and evenness. Notes that white calico gains purity from bleaching powders, which can damage calico floors.
Remarks on social talk and habits in summer
Witty reflections compare worry, friendship, stories, and money saving to season and gender cues. A fat man avoids exercise except to swat insects, while rolling business contrasts with dainty feminine gloves.
Blue Devils and Red Blooded Workman Health Advice
A blocky rhetoric urges readers to banish Blue Devils by pursuing Right Work Clean thoughts sound sleep and activity. It claims red blooded people have fewer Blue Devils and promotes driving out these urges through exercise sleep and discipline for efficiency.
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Bresh
Rand
Draw Flights in Golf and Billiards Compared by Theory
A discussion notes that golf and billiards share propulsion ideas as ball flight parallels the way billiard balls move. It explains how surface textures of balls and felt influence resistance and trajectory, with a brassie used in example to illustrate a precise draw.
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Lawas
Duration of Human Life in Historical Perspective
A fragmented excerpt discusses life expectancy with archaic spellings. It states the average life is about thirty three years and that a quarter die before age six while half die before sixteen. It notes only one in a hundred reach sixty five and suggests life expectancy may be rising due to better sanitation and medical care.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Jackson County
Athens-Commerce Road
Erwin and Company
D. Bradwell
Lipscomb
Insurance
Athens Savings ‘Bank
Green & Michael
Largo
Williams Bros
Price
Broad and
Lamp-kin Ts
J. C. Jester
Thomas Bros
J. 8Wood
Milledge Hill
Cobb, Prince Avenue
Care Banner
College Avenue
Williams& Shouse
A. C. Stephens Optometrist
Lumpkin Street
J.T. Anderson
Post Office
Ne Tal Monde Chichester Skills
Eee
Ieee
Walter Forbest
Vey Copge
God
Mr. Rogers
W. T. Forbes
Uncle Sam
M. G. Dearing
Erwin & Company
Prince of Wales
Blue'devils
George Matthew
Woecar Victors Erwin.& Company
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