Meeting and social notes from a 1917 community page
A run of social items, notices, and verse including a 5 o'clock meeting for a young ladies missionary society at First Methodist, Miss Louise Ash hosting the Philharmonic Club gathering, engagements of Corrine Goodwin to O T Goodwin, reflections on a World War era fence of class and duty, and summer school activities at State College of Agriculture with visits by University of North Carolina summer students and Mrs Hunnicutt's sewing party.
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S. R. Belk
Louise Ash
Philharmonic Club
Costa's
Miss Ash
Dot Haselton
Hazel Hodgson
Katherine Park
Katherine Ashford
Alice Chandler
Nina Davis
E. F. Walderton
Tonia, Mich
Corrine
O. T. Goodwin
Athens
Georgia
Agricultural College
Goodwin
State AG. College
Universityn
State College of Agriculture
Soule
State Normal
Harold Hinton
John White Morton
Daisy McDonald
Atlanta
Isabel Thomas
Mary Hunnicutt
Anne Crawford
Nellie Sprout
Anne Brumby
Circulating libraries bill moves to general assembly
A proposed appropriation of 5000 dollars to the Georgia State Library Commission aims to establish and sustain traveling libraries for rural areas. The measure has been endorsed by the Georgia State Federation of Women's Clubs and tied to broader library access efforts during the current session.
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General Assembly
Georgia State Library Commission
Georgia State Federation of Women’s
Rural libraries bill eyed to extend book loans statewide
A proposed bill would let rural Georgia communities borrow 50 or more books for three to six months and swap for new titles, delivering city library access to 80 percent of the state's rural population. Backers cite Kentucky and North Carolina successes, Georgia’s $2,700,000 annual school reading effort, and leaders Jones Dorris Ellis and Law pushing the measure through the Public Library Committee.
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Nellie Peters Black
Georgia Library Association
Barrow
University of Georgia
Georgia
Kentucky
North Carola
North Carolina
Garland H. Jones
Coweta County
W. H. Dorris
Crisp
R. C. Ellis
Tift
Public Library Committee
Joseph Law
The Cook of Canyon Camp at the Strand
George Beban stars as a French Canadian lumber camp cook in The Cook of Canyon Camp at the Strand with Helen Jerome Edy and Donald Crisp. Elite shows Fires of Rebellion starring Dorothy Philips, with Bluebird backing and a moral drama about a factory girl who seeks social betterment. Saturday programs feature Ethel Barrymore in The Greatest Power at the Strand and Pearl White in The Fatal Ring at the Elite.
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George Beban
Cook
Canyon Camp
Strand
Lfe
Mr. Beban
Helen Jerome Edy
Paramount
Donald Crisp
Beban
Monroe Salisbury
John Burton
Florence Vidtor
Canadian Woods
Dorothy Philips
Bluebird
Lou Chaney
Wm. Stowell
Ethel Barrymore
Metro
Fatty Arbuckle
Elite
Pearl White
Helen Holmes
Daily menus urge thrift and green veggie use in homes
A home economy piece urges saving by trimming waste in potato peeling and overgenerous servings. It highlights cooking greens from tops, using surplus foods, and following a strict eat what you need guideline. Includes a Hartford pie recipe using cold meat, potatoes, onions, stock, and a flour mixture.
How to bake meat pie with crust on top
Instructions describe mixing pieces in Nour with water to form a stiff paste, rolling on a floured board, shaping a top crust, covering the meat in a casserole, sealing edges, and baking until crust is done. Estimated cost 26 cents, serves six.
Virginia Corn Bread Recipe From H C L
A clipped cookbook note offers Virginia cornbread instructions for six, using sour milk butter salt soda egg and cornmeal. It yields twelve cents per batch, bakes twenty minutes in a shallow pan, and serves six people.
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Virginia
Freckles Remedy Pledge Pushes Athens Consumers
An advertisement urges residents to buy a freckle removal formula sold by druggists with a money back guarantee. It claims visible results after first uses with double strength ethine and promotes supporting local Athens business through a Buy in Athens pledge.
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Robert Underwood Johnson
The
Vigilantes
Mr. Mason
Chicago
France
M. C
Lafayette
August Woman's Home Companion
Dorothy Phillips
Ida May Park
Fatty Arbuckle Strand
Brandt’s Jewelers Insurance
Athens, Georgia
Mrs. McLain and Sons
Savannah
W. M. Fite
Ruth Fite
Moselle Wiggins
Statham
Mary Lou Wier
Hendersonville
Mamie Hilsman
Mrs. S. H. Goss
Mrs. McClellan
Memphis
Maine
I. F. White
Daniels“ile
City
Vernon Hall
Vernon Mall, Jr
J. N. Webb
George Giles
Liberty
A. R. Nicholson
Macon
Fred Wilson Carruth
Ruth Frederick
Toccoa
Ed Woodside
Vincent-Dobbs
Greenville
Andrew Erwin
White Sulphur Springs
R. T. DuBose
Mattie Wilson DuBose
the Majestic
Virginia Lott
Columbiana
Alabama
J. T. Franklin
Herbert Choate
Nell Choate
W. H. Davis
Prince Avenue
John Chipley
Washington
Jim Elliott
Emmett McKenzie
Valdosta
Montezuma
J. C. Douglas
Annie Mc ,Donald
J. C. Davis
J. 8. Gaston
Argyle, Florida
Georgian
Mary Ann Rucker
William Smith
W. C. Ash
Louise J
Jeannette Ash
Earnest Howell
Virginia Howell
E. M. Howell, Jr
Verdery, S. C
Billups Phinizy
Chattanooga
Tate Springs
Mr. Buford Gaines
Sandersville
Allen Holliday
Rosa Waite
J. P. Ingram
Eastman
J. C. McClain
Frank Harold
Americus
Lineville
Ala
Mrs. Smith
Royston
J. C. Graham
Bloomfield Street
J. B. Wilbanks
Jackson
H. T. Huggins & Son
Broad St
Clayton St
Madame Lustrat
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Hartford
H.C
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Palm Beach
Athens Empire Laundry Co
Styles
Palmers
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