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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1917
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists mailing options and prices: 5 dollars per year 250 dollars for six months 1.25 dollars for three months or 10 cents a week. Remittance methods include express post office money order registered letter or cheque. Subscribers should report delivery issues to the business office for resolution.
The piece argues wartime civic duty including cartoonists drawn for service and urging food conservation. It praises a Northeast Georgia Exposition idea for Athens, cites chamber of commerce value, and notes Georgia peach crop records. It cites Hoover praising American women’s wartime role and prudent household food use.
The article argues Kaiser Wilhelm bears blame for Germany’s trampling war while the crown prince shapes policy. It warns the future throne could intensify oppression, claiming the crown prince’s dominance would mirror harsh Prussian rule and risk erasing today’s crimes.
Julien Erwin of Athens is the district’s first citizen drawn under the new draft law and has entered the officers training camp at Fort McPherson where he will likely receive his commission. He is the son of the late Alexander S. Erwin, a Confederate veteran, and his mother is a Cobb descendant who helped originate the Southern Cross of Honor.
The article argues the American people will sacrifice and economize as a larger liberty loan is planned. It predicts swift bond purchases, noting no inclination to back away from duty and a willingness to finance the effort as in the first issue.
The piece blends wartime sentiment on U S gunners and moral about fighting the Huns with local civic notes from Athens Georgia. It urges confidence in American troops while praising agriculture clubs and posits cooperative pig fattening on vacant lots to boost meat production. It reflects small town perspectives on national duty and community farming efforts.
A Sunday school lesson compares President Wilson with Hezekiah and Sennacherib with the Kaiser, drawing parallels between liberty, truth, and tyranny. It urges readers to study Second Kings and Chronicles to see Findings of pride, conquest, and the price of liberty. The speaker invites readers to read Isaias chapters 8 6 and 87 for deeper context and notes the ancient siege of Jerusalem as a modern moral parallel.
The fire insurance organizations in this state push a campaign for special safeguards against fire this year. In lean supply times, every measure matters, and extra precautions are urged by fire insurance companies and associations across this and other states to prevent fire risks.
A brief meditation notes that in war the focus shifts to fighting and the causes and purposes behind the conflict are often forgotten. It urges stepping back to consider what the war is truly about and why people endure the central effort.
Readers are urged to help railroads by promptly loading and unloading cars for reuse at cables. German papers report a Karlsruhe society aims to preserve Geruda family life and promote national efficiency, fighting modern decadence. City waste should be separated for animal feeding to cut costs and boost pork production, with households trained to keep dangerous scraps out. The U S plans July 1 to adopt European education in the Virgin Islands, with American teachers in St Thomas and St Croix, shifting from Danish Moravian schooling to focus on reading and arithmetic due to U S ownership. The islands lack high schools, despite petitions.
The document cites high discontent with Danish rule in the Virgin Islands and estimates that eighty to ninety percent of residents are Black, with the remainder White. It outlines racial composition and colonial governance tensions in a historical context.
An old classified style notice promotes Jad Salts as a harmless, inexpensive remedy for kidney trouble. It warns of backache, cloudy urine, and nighttime urination and advises drinking lots of water and taking four ounces of Jad Salts in water daily for a few days to restore kidney function.
In the American League games Chicago defeated Boston 5 to 2 Detroit beat New York 1 to 3 St Louis topped Washington 6 to 2 and Philadelphia shut out Cleveland 6 to 2 In the National League New York won 4 to 2 over Pittsburgh Philadelphia and St Louis 4 to 3 Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati 4 Boston 6 Chicago 0 In the Southern League Birmingham lost to Chattanooga 2 to 1 Memphis routed Mobile 12 to 1 Atlanta and Nashville split 6 to 6 Little Rock edged New Orleans 4 to 1.
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