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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1917
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner explains subscription rates and delivery terms in Athens Georgia. It lists prices for annual, semiannual, quarterly and weekly options and requests prompt reporting of delivery issues by subscribers.
The piece notes wartime economy with a push to spend and support home production in Athens and Georgia. It praises local merchants, discusses fair use for food production and conservation teaching, and mentions the Red Cross restructuring for efficient wartime service.
The text presents a wartime prayer attributed to Harold MacGrath of the Vigilantes. It pleads for manhood, a clean heart, sober mind, control of anger, righteous zeal, and fidelity to forefathers, family memory, and strength for the day of return or departure.
The draft order is issued and men must report for examination or file exemptions. The government expects honest exemptions and prudent service, urging patriotism while predicting little opposition to enforcement and promising to curb obstructionists decisively.
The Georgia legislature faces a growing crisis in caring for more than four thousand inmates at Milledgeville state asylum. A legislative committee reports severe crowding and insufficient space, urging new buildings and more funding. It also calls out misdirected admissions and vows to fix judicial referral practices and funding sources.
A verse excerpt contrasts vast seas and inland wealth, noting the plough’s touch on soil and the eye that reads divine tracery in marches. It celebrates a reader who could find a measure divine in the land and sea, attributed to D. G. Bickers in Brunswick, Georgia, July 19, 1917.
A veteran born in the seventy six and seasoned in the sixties faces the draft without fear. The piece praises wartime resolve and urges Georgia editors to support stronger war measures, faster shipbuilding, and accelerated legislation to save American lives and honor. It highlights the urgency of the Gallipoli theater and warns that delays imperil the Allied effort.
A well known authority cautions against excessive meat intake causing uric acid buildup that injures kidneys. Symptoms listed include back pain cloudy urine and insomnia. The remedy suggested is four ounces of Rad Salts daily in water to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys.
The July High School Quarterly, led by Dr. Jos S. Stewart, is praised as one of the strongest issues in five years. Contents cover editorials on education and standards, vocational guidance, teacher training in land grant colleges, independent public school systems in Georgia, and reviews of educational practices and projects.
There is widespread Catarrh in this region once deemed incurable. Early doctors misattributed it to local causes and relied on local remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co promises internal action on blood and mucous surfaces with a $1000 reward if it fails.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Chamberlains Colie and Diarrhoea remedy now to be ready for potential summer colie or diarrhoea cases. It claims the product is worth its cost many times over when needed.
The Banner argues for co education at the University of Georgia, urging the state to accept Lucy Cobb Institute property in Athens to provide higher schooling for girls without extra state maintenance. It asserts the program requires no new state funds and would offer girls the same advantages as boys, urging inclusion within Georgia’s borders.
The AP recaps yesterday baseball: American Chicago 5 Boston 3 in 13 innings. National Boston 3 Chicago 2. New York 0 Pittsburg 1. Philadelphia 3 Pittsburg 1. Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 5. Brooklyn 2 Cincinnati 6. Southern Atlanta 0 Little Rock 4. New Orleans 2 Nashville 0. Mobile Chattanooga off day. An Athens endorsement for Doan’s Kidney Pills by Mrs. E R Shy details relief from back pain and rheumatism with continued use advised. Price 60c at dealers.
The forecast calls for probably thunder showers Tuesday in Athens and vicinity and in Georgia. The Week outlook notes moderately warm weather with frequent local showers and thunder storms in the South Atlantic and East Gulf States. Hanna's passage brought rain in Alabama Georgia and the Carolinas, with a high pressure area retreating toward fair conditions ahead.
Fire crews answered a blaze at the two and a half story brick and frame structure at West Broad and Newton streets. The building housed William Brown’s cafe on the first floor and residences above owned by Jim Perry Davis. Josie Sherman occupied the upper floors. Much of the roof burned and contents suffered smoke and water damage. Sherman’s household goods were insured.
Mrs. S. W. Gladwell of Watoga reports severe headaches backache and weakness from female trouble starting at age 15. After three bottles of Cardus she improved greatly and has remained healthy, never needing a doctor for female troubles. Cardui is recommended by physicians and in use over 40 years as a tonic for women.
Text argues neighbors buy out of town hurting the local economy and questions community future. Mentions Athens and links despondency to digestion with a medical ad for Chamberlain's to aid digestion and bowel movement.
Eastern Time timetable lists Train 60 leaves Athens at 6:35 am daily. Train 62 runs daily except Sunday from Athens at 4 pm. Train 54 operates Sundays only from Athens at 4:20 pm. Train 51 arrives Athens at 12 59 pm daily except Sunday. Train 63 arrives Athens at 9 40 pm daily. Train 58 arrives Athens Sundays at 12 40 pm.
Train arrivals include No 1 Sunday at 11 40 a m No 3 daily at 6 40 p m No 11 daily except Sunday mixed at 10 00 a m Departures list No 2 daily 7 20 a m No 4 Sunday 2 20 p m No 12 daily except Sunday mixed 11 00 a m Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder Monroe intermediate points with Georgia Railroad for all points and at Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern and with Southern Railway north and south
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