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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
4
H. J. Rowe, editor announces Athens Daily Banner rates and delivery methods. Subscriptions run five dollars yearly, two fifty for six months, one twenty five for three months, or ten cents weekly. Payment by express, money order, registered letter or check.
U S ships claim success against U boats and a new word battleplane appears in war coverage. The text references Georgia bars everywhere and a strong push to fix coal prices, stressing wartime measures and home front effects.
The Red Cross must accompany 100000 American troops in the trenches by Christmas. A Red Cross Information Bureau will inform families about casualties, missing, wounded, or deaths. Citizens are urged to donate every dollar and seat to support the Red Cross fund as Athens launches the campaign next week.
The piece urges Athens to subscribe twenty five thousand dollars to the national Red Cross drive as part of a one hundred million fund. It argues government funding would tax citizens, praising Red Cross efficiency and linking giving to church values, duty, and support for soldiers. It stresses collective effort, local pride, and a campaign next week to exceed local pledges.
Georgia faces serious labor shortages as many Black workers move North and many young men enlist. Calls grow for a state employment bureau and labor exchange under the State Labor Commissioner, plus heavy taxation and strict supervision of labor agencies to stop outflow of workers.
A brief cartoon caption notes that certain items could not be delivered to anyone other than the addressed recipient, reflecting postal or handling rules. The fragment references misdelivery constraints and a person or entity abbreviated as GW is mentioned.
The International Sunday School plan for tomorrow uses Acts 17 1 12 to show how the WORD became life and light. Christianity as a revolution transforms individuals and nations turning Greeks and women toward faith, liberty, and higher life, with the WORD translated into living action.
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