26 Jun 1917
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1917
Page
1
A collage of classified notices incl banner care privacy notes for advertisers Lipscomb's Specialty Insurance and a call to divide fire insurance with J C Jester. Also listings for rent Milledge Ave and rooms at 195 Hill St plus automotive services and lost items with rewards. Includes Green & Michael loan dept and Athens Savings Bank savings offer with 4 percent interest.
An old ad promotes Jackson's Cordial as a positive relief for sleepless nights and digestive complaints including constipation dyspepsia and loss of appetite. It also urges Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic to build up the system with quinine and iron, priced at 68 cents.
Oil of wintergreen thymo glycerine and other ingredients form the D. D. D. prescription. A mild wash penetrates pores soothes burning and gnawing skin diseases and quickly heals inflamed areas. Druggists recommend this soothing cooling liquid soap offered at 25c 50c and 1.00 with a money back guarantee if the first bottle fails to relieve.
Yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock a young Negro named Will Donald, accused by a local merchant of bicycle theft, fled on foot and by bicycle for fourteen miles. He leaped from a railroad trestle into the river island thirty-five feet below, was found unconscious, and taken toward Elberton for treatment.
Sloan's Liniment provides quick relief from rheumatic pains neuralgia toothache lumbago sprains and strains with no rubbing needed. Keeps a bottle at home for nerve pains external aches and overexertion with prices 25c 60c and 1.00 at your druggist.
R L CAUTHEN posts a notice offering to swap new buggies for good mules at his address 167 West Clayton Street. The ad seeks practical exchanges and invites interested parties to contact for arrangements or terms.
Recorder Price yesterday morning placed a $300 bond on Mr. J. 8. Keese in county court after whiskey was found at his Prince avenue store in violation of prohibition laws.
A new firm by Messrs Williams and Shouse, formerly with a leading city house, opens at 151 FE Broad Street. It specializes in tin and sheet metal work with radiator repair and automobile body building as key services, run by experts with substantial experience.
Ernest Harrod of Gainesville Florida was accidentally killed today while hunting in Panama. The Associated Press report states the death was accidental.
American results include Boston 0 Washington 4 and 4 3, New York 1 Philadelphia 0, New York 7 Philadelphia 5, Cleveland 9 St Louis 2. National games feature Brooklyn 3 Boston 2, Brooklyn 4 Boston 2, Philadelphia 2 New York 0, St Louis Cincinnati yesterday, Atlanta 3 Birmingham 4, Chattanooga 9 Little Rock 2, Memphis 13 Nashville 0. South Atlantic shows Charleston 0 Columbia 2 and Augusta 1 Jacksonville 7.
Last night the Y W C A hosted Company E Fifth Georgia Regiment National Guard on duty for two months, delivering a charming evening of progressive conversation games and charades with refreshments, a social on the moonlit lawn, and patriotic decor in the association gym.
The board of county commissioners of roads and revenues will convene in the clerk of the board Tate Wrights office at the courthouse. This adjourned session resumes after last Tuesday’s absence and illness prevented a quorum.
The ad warns that overindulgence in rich foods strains kidneys causing back pain, cloudy urine, and nocturnal urination. It recommends four ounces of Salts with water each morning to flush kidneys, using Uthia based Jad Gaite beverage as a safe home remedy.
Advertisement promotes Calotabs as a tasteless, nausea free calomel remedy for biliousness constipation and digestion with claims of humane refund if not delighted. One tablet nightly with water. twenty doses per package priced at thirty five cents. Bold notes highlight modern advances like smokeless powder and wireless telegraphy alongside Calotabs. Local drugstores sell the sealed original package.
In Winder Georgia on June 25 a monster mass meeting was held at the courthouse to organize the Red Cross drive for the war fund. Speeches were made and a generous subscription plan was formed to rapidly raise contributions.
A quotation reflecting on childhood through Lord Avebury’s lens. It argues that childhood is often anxious and sensitive, challenging the idea of happiness. It cites Marey the horse tamer to illustrate how a single angry word can raise a creature’s pulse, extrapolating the impact to children.
In Gamaliel Bradford’s Portraits of Women an anecdote recounts George Ticknor in conversation with Lady Hoplind about New England’s origins. Ticknor responds that while New England was not settled by convicts, some of the Vassalls were early Massachusetts settlers.
A United States Department of Agriculture bulletin states that celery is not a nerve food and that the belief likely survives from old ideas attributing specific virtues to many plants.
A Serbey quip traces a man's life from elevator boy to mountain climber and finally to balloon ascensions, highlighting a dramatic arc of career pivots and ambition. This compact portrait emphasizes resilient reinvention across varied pursuits.
The text argues that no furniture should block sunlight in any room and every dwelling should have windows that admit sun at some time daily. It stresses sunlight as essential as air for health, advises keeping glare moderate, and recommends sunlit walks with eye protection when needed. It highlights sun baths as vital for a healthful body.
The excerpt argues that in Greece Asia Minor India and Egypt women held divine status before men with goddesses like the Muses Isis and Demeter guiding arts farming and civilization. It contends modern women entering varied vocations reflects an ancient natural order rather than a novelty, citing Havelock Elis.
The piece argues anger damages the body and life, noting red faces and towering rage as unhealthy. It laments extreme passion causing harm, even fatal outcomes, urging restraint and urging readers to avoid letting anger shorten their days. Spurgeon is cited as the source of these cautions.
Fragmented OCR notes reference Ptolemy and early solar observations. Mentions Italy Bohemia and Tiburs with sunrise sunset timing and a noon sun, but text is garbled and uncertain.
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