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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1917
Page
3
Uncle Sam needs thousands of stenographers typewriters and clerks across Washington and other cities. Salaries range from 900 to 1200 dollars yearly for men and women. Train for weekly Civil Service exams in Atlanta and join the rush as offices fill in September. A special Summer Course offers a greatly reduced tuition with no cost to investigate.
Industrial Index outlines a wave of big projects across the Southeast. Mississippi lumber deals worth about 5 million, a Savannah sugar refinery at 2 million, a 1 million match factory, and a Birmingham rail, coal, and iron expansion funded by an 11 million steel corp appropriation. Everglades drainage nears 5 million, shipyards arise at seaports, and Jacksonville votes on a St Johns River bridge. Eighteen new corporations form with over 1 million in capital. Construction ranges from apartment houses to roads, paving, water systems, and factory buildings in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
A compact reflection on wealth as dirt and loss, citing John Heywood. The lines note that sages from all times teach that the happy man can be without a shirt. The quotation contrasts material wealth with inner contentment.
New York July 20 Americans to rewrite textbooks to teach thrift in classrooms. Schools will study figures like James J Hill Marshall Field and John Wanamaker and include personal efficiency in arithmetic history English composition domestic science and household economics. The National Education association committee stresses thrift beyond money saving as practical life preparedness.
The Strand offers Metro Yorke’s The Haunted Pajamas starring Harold Lockwood and Carmel Myers. A kaleidoscopic tale mixing farce extravaganza and drama from Francis Perry Elliott, with transforming pajama magic and witty romance, plus Lonesome Luke two reel spoof at the Strand. Pearl White’s Elite serial Pearl Standish features a diamond conspiracy, a deadly fire, and a tense chase as Carslake seals escape routes and plots in a dangerous hall of walls closing in.
Mrs M R Sears of Baldwinsville New York credits Chamberlins Tablets with curing her six month stomach spell. She suffered gas and severe pains in the pit of her stomach for weeks until a dose relieved her and continued use prevented recurrence. The druggist recommended the tablets.
Washington notes from the Department of Agriculture urge buying flour in quantities that match need and avoiding hoarding. Store flour in a dedicated cool, well ventilated bin on the north side of a building. keep containers clean and protected from dampness odors and vermin to prevent decomposition and waste.
Whitwell Tennessee Mrs G P Cart Wright writes of four years of dizzy spells that nearly made her fall while walking. After taking Cardus she improved greatly, finished the second bottle, and never regretted using the remedy. The advertisement touts Cardul as a vegetable female tonic for troubling symptoms.
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