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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1921
Page
5
Mary Miles Minter appears in a Realjart feature at the Palace Program today with her characteristic curls and demureness. The screening is described as a darling picture with a refreshing love story and a Patho News segment also shown.
Rex Ray is set to thrill Elite Theatre patrons with a Western melodrama filmed in Texas and the Mexican border. The Unknown Ranger features a cast noted for action and dramatic fighting scenes in a reel praised as an unusual treat for Bite patrons.
Light showers fell in central Georgia Texas and Oklahoma with cooler air reaching Athens and a high pressure area over North Carolina. The rest of the cotton belt stayed fair while temperatures remained warm in the central valley and northern regions around Chicago with a mild disturbance in northern Texas.
Southern League games include Birmingham 6 over Memphis and peak New Orleans 3, Nashville 2. American League sees Philadelphia 7 over Washington in 15 innings, Boston 8 8, New York 1, Chicago 3 over Cleveland 6. Detroit and St. Louis rain. National League results St. Louis 17 3, Chicago 5 6, New York 5 over Boston 16, Brooklyn 4, Philadelphia 2.
An ad extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female weakness and premature aging. It claims the remedy helps women with nervousness backache and head pain, enabling them to meet domestic duties and avoid breakdowns. The text cites testimonials from grateful women and mentions a street address.
East Hampton physician Edward G Colton writes June 17 1921 to Chancellor Barrow defending William Crawford Long as the first to use ether anesthesia. Colton narrates early nitrous oxide history and credits Long amid other claimants, asserting the University of Georgia recognition is correct and urging proper credit.
Georgia Railroad Commission will meet in executive session in Atlanta to clear cases on its docket that have already been argued. Read Banner Want Ads for profit, use for results.
Announcement lists subscription terms for Daily Banner offerings including one week one tenth three months six months and twelve months with pricing implied. No further details provided.
Georgia delegates at Blue Ridge participate in the second mile of the student conference with leaders from Tech Wake Forest and Mississippi. Lectures by Dr Moton and Dr Poteat, the singing quartet from Fiske College, and tennis and track events mark a busy program as students contemplate future service in education and missions.
In Washington on June 28 the Attorney General announced the government will sue an open price association in New York within days. He did not name the group but said it is linked to investigations of the Lockwood committees into the tin building trades.
A mammoth Canadian Pacific vessel, relocated from Ree nd Central terminal, has secured a twenty year rental deal in New York. The carrier, part of a historic fleet built by Stephen Donat Smith and William Van Horne, marks a milestone in transcontinental rail and shipping history, continuing the lineage of leaders from the United States and Canada.
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