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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1912
Page
5
An old advertisement touts Perspi-No as a superior underarm powder that keeps dress shields dry and fabrics free from staining. It claims long lasting freshness, prevents rubbing and fading, and offers a money back satisfaction guarantee. The ad notes application with a pad included in each box and directs to Chicago drug stores for purchase.
July Woman's Companion reports Francesca Redding returning to vaudeville on the silver screen stage. Richard Harlow, famed for Isabella in 1492, now earns success as a Wall Street broker.
The Industrial Index notes Southeast cities voting or planning bond issues totaling 2,105,000 for public improvements. St Petersburg votes 200,000 for municipal work, Tampa weighs 1,700,000 bonds, with Adel 15,000 Conyers 60,000 Leesburg 30,000 and Valdosta 100,000. Construction projects include three educational buildings.
The Georgia Alumni funded Alumni Hall has opened its doors, with a completed swimming pool and gymnasium, and a promise to finish the remaining sections promptly. The pool features tile surroundings and depths from five to eight feet, while the gymnasium offers a full set of apparatus and a basketball court. The building is touted as among the finest of its kind and expected to become a central student hub next year.
Capt J W Arnold formerly with Griffith and Welch and commander of Clarke Rifles will join a new Memphis based cotton venture with two other experienced cotton men. He is expected to help build the enterprise into a successful business next season. Meanwhile theater news notes revivals and new productions in New York and London, including David Warfield reassembling the original Peter Grimm company and plans for songs and plays by Hopwood Luders and others, with Ethel Barrymore and Barrie works among upcoming engagements.
Seven graduates from the State College of Agriculture have secured prominent, well paid posts. Names include Milton Cleveland Gay of Athens as principal of the Ninth District A and M school in Clarkesville, Walter Green Acree of Blue Springs as principal in Madison, and Robert Fred Whelcher guiding Pebble Hill Plantations near Thomasville. Others take leadership on farms near Stillmore, Madison, Round Oak, and an EMS forestry post.
The Red and Black lauds the Athens girls for kindness hospitality and campus spirit. They cheered freshmen aided sophomores inspired athletic and chapel efforts and left a lasting campus impression. A second note compares daily wages for steel workers in China seven cents to one dollar seventy six in the United States.
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