Local Folks Share Visits and Meetings in Watkinsville
Miss Mozelle and Katherine Ashford of Athens visit grandparents Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Ashford in Watkinsville. Isabel Hutchinson Frances Carroll of Lucy Cobb join home folks for George Washington's birthday. Rev W W Carroll attends a Sunday school institute in Macon. Mrs. Alice Bishop returns from Ashburn visit. International Study Class discusses World Missions and Peace led by Mrs. Carroll. District social hour hosts include Mrs. Carroll and Mrs. Duggan. Reverend Burger outlines church path.
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Mises Isabel Hutchinson
Frances Carroll
Lucy Cobb
George Washington
W. W. Carroll
Laconia tragedy spurs Hoy to urge U S action against assassins
Austin Y Hoy son of Laconia victims appeals to President Wilson from Washington. He claims obligation to defend American honor and invites service against Germany amid wartime outrage. He cites loss of his mother and sister aboard the torpedoed liner.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Austin Y. Hoy
Sullivan Machinery Company
Chicago
Lving
Beloven
Laconia
Jackson's Cordial promoted for children’s health
Public health notice urges mothers to use Jackson's Cordial for children with stomach issues and spring colds. It claims the tonic cleanses the stomach bowels and helps feverish or irritable infants, endorsed by local druggists and pharmacies.
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Dr. Jackson
Jackson
H. R. Palmer & Sons
W. J. Smith & Bro. Reid Drug Co
Royal Pharmacy
Citizens Pharmacy
Prince Avenue Pharmacy
Normal School Pharmacy
W. W. Edwards
Harris Drug Co
I. N. Butler
Booth Brothers
Joe Hawks
A. M. Center Co
Martin Grocery Co
Weather forecast for Atlanta region and cotton belt
Special to the Banner reports: Atlanta area rain likely Thursday with a drop in temperature, northwest to central Georgia colder. cotton belt remains cloudy with possible rain and cooler conditions. US-wide notes include heavy northern cold with temps from 32 in Louisville to 18 below in Sault Ste. Marie. barometer high, Texas storm referenced. Meteorologist von Herrmann signs. Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey ad promotes cold relief.
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The
Banner
Atlanta
Athens
Vicinity
Georgia
Cotton Belt
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Kentucky
Atlantic
Hatteray
Philadelphia
Louisville
St. Louis
Oklahoma
Chicago
Sault Ste. Marie
Co. F. von Herrmann
Georgia sheriffs threaten arrest for 1917 auto tax delinquents
Georgia sheriffs including Fulton County's Sheriff Lowry threaten to arrest about 35,000 automobile owners who lack 1917 license tags after March 1 the deadline. The move follows a letter from sheriffs to Secretary of State Phil Cook urging enforcement.
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Georgia
Phil Cook
Lowry
Fulton County
Oldest Christian Bell Cast in 1247 Found in Riverside Collection
A London discovered bell cast in 1247 in Santiago Spain bears a Latin inscription naming James Jesus Christ Mary Quintana and Salvador. It resides with a Riverside California innkeeper who owns a vast bell collection after being brought to the U S from a London foundry.
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Santiago
Spain
James
Jesus Christ
Mary
Quintana
Salvador
Riverside
Cal
London
Bank Robber Band Targeting Northern Oklahoma
Oklahoma bankers and chambers join to curb an organized outlaw gang blamed for two deaths and three injuries in Delaware Oklahoma. Big rewards offered dead or alive. Legislature may enact death penalty for bank robbers as insurance rates rise and six detectives probe the bandit network and a hired fixer salary of five thousand dollars a year.
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Bartlesville
Okla
Oklahoma
Bankers’ Associations
Chambers of Commerce
Delaware
Ocean Casualty Company
American Bankers’ Association
Man fears madness from counting razor strokes
Edgar R. Braton of Moultrie Georgia reports he fears going crazy if he cannot stop counting strokes while shaving. He began counting to reduce each shave and had reduced daily strokes, but now he cannot stop counting at all.
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Ah Dike
Moultrie
Edgar R. Braton
Pittsburgh Leads World in Freight Tonnage Output
Statistics show Pittsburgh leads the world in origination of freight tonnage. The city's mines mills and industrial plants generate a tonnage 2.5 times larger than that of London New York and Hamburg combined. Twelve railroads and three rivers move this tonnage, surpassing Suez canal and the New York London Liverpool Hamburg ports in normal times.
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Pittsburgh
London
New York
Hamburg
Ohio
Allegheny
Monongahela
Suez Canal
Liverpool
Ward Off Flirts in Shop
In New York a high class women’s clothing shop requires all women customers to wear wedding bands while trying on dresses. The proprietor offers gold rings to sales clerks who lack bands to curb flirting by husbands while customers shop. The policy has not yet had time to show results.
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New York
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Mozelle
Katherine Ashford
Mrs
A. W. Ashford
Sue Ashford
Elizabeth
Weyman Dooly
University
Mrs. W. S. Dooly
Macdonough
Alice Bishop
Prof
Claud and
Dr. Bishop
Ashburn, Ga
Lucy Elder
Courtney Elder
J. W. Athon
Nelle
Parent-Teacher Association
Frank Thrasher
Madison
C. A. Duggan, Jr
Morton
John Wilson
Gok
U. S
M. E. Church
Shmaster & Aluen and
Crea
Roan
Evenito Journal
By C. Gardner Sullivan
N.Y
Journal
Chas Darton
N. Y
Louis Sherwin
GLOBE
Tribune
Burns Mantle
Eve
Ward Off
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