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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
4
Announcement of subscription rates for The Athens Daily Banner including annual, six month, and three month options with weekly pricing. Instructions for payment methods and how subscribers should report delivery issues to the business office to ensure proper handling.
The piece urges Americans to join the war effort with quotes about Uncle Sam and liberty, emphasizing unity and resolve after wartime entry. It highlights the University of Athens summer school designed to serve teachers statewide, offering regular courses, equipment emphasis, and wartime adapted programs alongside entertaining musical and dramatic events for locals staying home in Athens.
The Rev. A G Richards rector of Emmanuel church suggests the label The First Army of The Republic for the American forces deploying to France. He notes it as the first and essential army of the Republic and calls it the trusted army of THE Republic.
General Leonard Wood received a Doctor of Laws from the University of Georgia Chancellor Barrow amid a large ovation. In a brief three minute address he urged rapid preparation for the war effort, laws to safeguard morals, and support for the troops headed to the front, earning belief he can lead Southern volunteers.
Commencement at the University of Georgia was one of its most interesting in history with record alumni turnout and three class reunions. Despite war concerns, the event proceeded smoothly and inspired renewed support for education and plans to increase future enrollment across Georgia institutions.
A Macon Telegraph text extols three nation pillars: equality and liberty as sturdy supports, plus a third pillar of fraternity. The speaker argues for strengthening this third pillar to secure the republic and ensure a perfect, well-contrived government. Fraternal unity is urged as essential to real American safety and national perpetuity.
A speaker this week urged support for a campaign to raise 100 million dollars for the major medical department of the United States Army. Ted Cross was cited as a charter member in the push to invest in medical services and readiness.
Cincinnati authority touts freezone for corn removal claiming drops applied directly lift corns without pain or infection. Drug stores offer a quarter ounce at low cost sufficient to remove corns and calluses, with the product drying quickly and not irritating surrounding tissue. The ad notes high heels contribute to corn formation and targets women readers.
The Strand shows Dorothy Dalton in Wild Winship Widow and a Fox comedy Six Cylinder Love. Elite Alice Joyce stars in The Courage of Silence with Triangle Comedy.
An advertisement touts Calotabs as a improved de nauseated calomel tablet that is pleasant to take yet preserves liver cleansing effects. One tablet at bedtime with water purports to purge biliousness constipation and indigestion by morning. Sold in sealed twenty dose packages for thirty five cents with refund option.
Forecast till 6 p m Thursday calls for thunder showers in Athens and vicinity and in Georgia as a whole. Local showers reported in Florida, southern and southeastern Georgia, northern Georgia, and adjoining Tennessee and North Carolina. Overall fair weather expected with slight shower chances Thursday. Meteorologist C F von Herrmann notes no major disturbances on the map.
A passage notes reversals in social roles across cultures. It argues no position is exclusively for one sex and cites Panpuan courtship, gendered dress, and domestic duties to illustrate how different societies assign initiative and skill, with moral judgments varying by region.
Sloans Liniment relieves rheumatic pains neuralgia toothache lumbago sprains and strains quickly without rubbing. Penetrates and soothes, cleaner than plasters or ointments. Keep a bottle at home for prompt relief from nerve pains, bruises, overexertion. At your druggist 25c 50c 1.00.
How to craft an inexpensive lemon lotion by mixing juice from two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint. Strain well to avoid pulp, keep refrigerated, and use daily on face neck arms and hands to bleach freckles sallowness and tan for a softer whiter skin tone.
Georgia business leaders must organize to create consuming markets for state crops both at home and abroad. Farmers alone cannot build these markets. the State College of Agriculture and county agents can aid diversification, but businessmen must back the effort and tell farmers to grow needed foods.
Ga State College agronomy professor John R. Fain discusses using soy beans as a hog grazing crop in the South. On heavy soils soy beans can outperform peanuts, yielding 200 to 600 pounds of pork per acre. pods burst after ripening, so rapid grazing is needed. About sixteen 100-pound hogs per acre suit the crop, with a 2 to 4 week grazing window once beans reach the dough stage.
Assistant State Supervisor Home Economics Miss Lois Dowdle explains wartime bread substitutions to cut wheat flour use. Peanut meal replacing 25 percent of flour yields a tasty, lighter mufn and soy bean meat offers another option. A blend of 80 percent whole wheat, 25 percent corn meal, and 3 percent peanut meal improves nutrition and appeal.
Andrew M Soule of the Georgia College of Agriculture argues against a fixed system, noting diversification faces slow progress due to cotton warehouses, limited credit, stall capital, tenant farmers, and poorly organized markets. He calls for farmer and business cooperation to advance diversified crops.
A black cat locked inside a safe in Athens Georgia emerged white the next morning. The incident compared to Marie Antoinette among others, according to a Buffalo Sexpress dispatch. The cat walked out unharmed and was fully white.
Train No 2 leaves Athens 7 20 am Train No 4 leaves Athens 2 20 pm Train No 1 arrives Athens 11 40 am Train No 4 arrives Athens 6 40 pm Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder Monroe and intermediate points with the Georgia Railroad for all points and at Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern stations and with Southern Railway north and south.
Daily departures from Athens Branch for All Points 608 miles daily. All Points daily except San 1:00 p m. 411 Points Bun Only 8:15 p m. All Points daily except San 3:30 p m. Train arrives All Points daily 13:40 p m All Points daily 6:50 p m All Points daily except Gun 10:30 p m. For information call BH Williams Commercial Agent phone 81 or R Johnson Ticket Agent phone 1024.
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