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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
4
The notice requests prompt reporting of late delivery and failure to deliver with regularity. It warns carriers cannot collect subscriptions or throw copies under any circumstances. The item also reflects on politics, weather, and spring fever with a mix of local notes and humor.
The piece outlines daily food limits under the rationing card system. Bread, meat, fats, eggs, milk, sugar, and vegetables are allotted with specific weekly or daily quotas. Cards mark quantities like 25 grams of war bread per tab and 75 grams of meat per week, with varying bans on meat days.
Congressional probes conclude the leak of the president's peace message resulted from ordinary publicity, not criminal negligence or collusion. Two newspaper men were implicated but found unproven, and charges dismissed. The Democratic Party signals tighter control over state papers in the future.
The piece notes Canada will soon grant women voting rights, a move seen to jar England and provoke scrutiny of suffragette tactics. It argues wartime patriotism has paused militancy, but postwar pressures may revive demands and complicate Britain’s political adjustments.
In a tangle over amendments the house and senate delay a dry laws bill. Some say it may pass later, others doubt this session. The Webb Kenyon framework and state laws shape expectations as national support grows.
An aging man recalls a lost son as he approaches his own fate. He fears the courtroom judge until the moment Destiny appears as his son, forcing a confronting recognition. The tale centers on memory, responsibility, and the irreversible pull of family ties.
A playful verse frames the year’s end with a rough jovial man and the advance of April and May. The speaker notes the roistering figure’s liberty with skirts, yet warmth readers with the freshness and seasonal march toward spring. The piece is signed D G Bickers.
In reporting from farm circles Bee Believes in Efficiency notes Prof. M. B. Waite’s experiment with gauze netting on 2,586 apple flowers yielding only three apples. The piece contrasts with normal fruit set on unobstructed blossoms. Also recounted is a cartoonish angling tale of two novices and a boy carrying a huge fish, who declares the catch is bait.
A doctor measured women in France England and America finding the English woman tallest followed by the American. The French woman averages five feet one inch. The American is nearly two inches shorter than the English and British women about an inch taller than the American. Women weigh about 117 pounds on average.
The Irish World asks readers to recall their first independent earnings and the confidence it sparked. It reflects how earning money through personal initiative can give a sense of conquest, strength, and purpose, replacing fear with a determined resolve to face the world.
A reflective line notes how steady work reveals vast possibilities. The speaker admires the expansive scope of tasks awaiting engagement and growth, portraying activity as a path to awe before endless potential.
A young officer at Queen Alexandra Hospital for Officers in Highgate had four inches of his ulnar nerve destroyed. Surgeons replaced it with a living nerve from an amputated limb. After weeks, sensation and hand movement returned and he left hospital for light duties.
Mme. Simone Puget widow of a famed French publicist photographed arriving in New York. Her husband, a French officer with the British expeditionary forces in France, was mortally wounded in May 1916 at Arras and died in a Belgian military hospital. She disguised herself as a French soldier to reach him and cared for him at his bedside. She plans to tour America lecturing on her husband’s work and her war zone experiences.
Miss Marie Sherwood, 52, of Patterson in Putnam county, lay paralyzed on her cold sitting-room floor for 24 hours after a stroke. A dog’s continual barking alerted James Glenn, who found her near death and summoned a doctor. The fire had gone out and both feet were feared frozen as a nurse was left to care for her.
Richard Moore, a section hand in Iola Kansas, sacrificed his life to avert a collision. He heard the train, noticed timber on the track, rushed to clear it, and was struck by the engine as the train passed Falls. His action saved the train from wrecking.
The Oklahoma House passed a bill making it unlawful to give away sell or smoke cigars in the state. The measure targets all forms of cigar sales and use within Oklahoma City and across the state.
A nostalgic ad contrasts old time laxatives with California Syrup of Figs as a gentle, effective cleanser for stomach liver and bowels. It urges mothers to use the 50 cent bottle made by the California Fig Syrup Company and warns against counterfeit products.
Strand presents Dorothy Dalton in Chick en Casey and Mae Murray in On Rec ord. Elite features Ann Pennington in The Rainbow Princess and Florence Reed in The Cowardly Way along with Bushman and Bayne. Friday adds Mae Murray in On Rec ord and Mrs Vernon Castle. Saturday showcases Charlie Chaplin in Easy Street Viola Dana Threads of Fate and Pearl White in Pearl of the Army with Lyle Comedie ss.
An old advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cures and endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from F J Cheney & Co and a bank underwriter, claims honesty and financial ability, and notes price about 75 to 76 cents per bottle with a note on family pills for constipation.
A recent study shows people with monocular vision experience no eye headaches. Whether one eye is disabled or unused, seeing with a single eye eliminates the effort to coordinate two eyes and reduces cranial nerve reflex influence and pain.
A Kansas boy recounts his father keeping a rattlesnake as a home pet. He recalls a burglary at their house and the snake alarmingly rattling at the intruder before escaping through a window, offering a vivid wartime border contrast with scorpions and tarantulas on duty.
Studies by Hi Sellards and Oliver P. Hay report human bones in Florida with mastodon remains, suggesting a Pleistocene age and possibly the oldest known human presence in North America. But four leading scientists from Chicago, the USGS, the Carnegie Institution, and Yale dispute the early date, awaiting Journal of Geology remarks.
Miss Lolita Armour daughter of Mr and Mrs Ogden Armour of Chicago makes her debut amid Chicago society circles. Once deemed likely to be crippled for life after her illness, she benefited from the bloodless operations of Doctor Koch brought from Berlin by her father. Now a healthy vivacious debutante she joins this season's fashionable entrants.
Johns Hopkins Hospital has started a sun and air exposure method for serious burns. Small burn areas are treated outdoors in temperate weather, reducing the need for skin grafts as tissue stays viable and may regrow over time.
Georgia Railroad approved timetable changes with trains serving Athens. Train 60 runs daily from Athens E36 a.m. Train 62 runs daily except Sunday from Athens 4 p.m. Train 4 runs Sundays at 4:20 p.m. Train 61 arrives Athens at noon on daily except Sunday service. Train 6A arrives Athens at 9:54 a.m. Train 7? arrives Athens 12:40 p.m. Details show Eastern Time adjustments and station times.
Train timetable notes arrival times and connections at Athens and Gainesville. It mentions Train No 5 arriving Athens 11 and Train No 4 arriving 6 40 p.m. Connections at Belmont for Winder and Monroe, with Georgia Railroad routes to all points and Gainesville & Northwestern stations, plus Southern Railway north and south.
Railroad timetable listings for All Points trains at Athens with daily and Sunday exceptions. Local fraternal orders meet weekly in Max Joseph Building and lodge quarters at Broad and Lampkis Streets. notices list meeting nights, officers, and attendance invites.
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