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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1917
Page
8
Short notes of interest list rental rooms and cottages in Athens with phone contacts. sales of Dodge coupe parts. hair tonics. moving services by Bros. savings bank offer. shortening and products. seeds and beans. furniture refinishing. lost diamond pin. eggs for setting. steno and sales help wanted. found keys and pole climber. request for counter cases.
Athens review hails the forceful production Experience as a compelling modern morality play. Paul Gilmore returns to star as the title character with powerful, sympathetic rendition. Leonard Doyle excels as Youth while Clyde Franklin and Lenora Hogarth earn praise for Works and Frailty. Audience hopes for a return engagement with the same cast.
Ten Yamacraw crewmen died last night while attempting to rescue the stranded oil steamer Louisiana off Ocean City Maryland. The coast guard cutter crew responded to the distress call and perished in the rescue effort.
Popular Science Monthly reports a method to extract sand drying the light producing organs of the firefly without reducing glow. When water containing oxygen is added to the powder, it emits the firefly’s golden light.
Yesterday in Athens a mock submarine display featuring a death black U-6 vessel appeared on the streets near Lacy Cobb Institute and State Normal School. The stunt, linked to University figures Neal Gillis and Rolf Sims, aimed to imitate warlike showmanship but was halted by a British blockade preventing their Colonial appearance.
A doctor urges a nurse to keep patients cheerful while she reveals six suitors proposed to her that morning, highlighting a comical clash between duty and romance in a hospital setting.
A quotation urges enjoying shared spaces without envy or greed. It contrasts how possession spoils simple pleasures like a velvet lawn and woodland strip with neighborly harmony. The fragment ends with an appeal to advertise personal wants.
Dr W M Burson a veterinary professor argues against patented stock feeds. He contends scientific analyses show these products mainly contain oil meal grain and tonics and do not lower costs or improve outputs. Proper feeding with good teeth grain roughage salt and clean water suffices to keep stock in good condition.
Horticulture professor McHatton from Georgia State College outlines orchard cover crops to prevent washout, March plowing depths, and opposite year plow directions on level soils. Recommends 100 lb cottonseed meal or equivalent nitrogen with 200 lb acid phosphate, or 400 lb with nitrate or ammonia, applied 600 to 7 pounds per acre, plus regular harrow weeding and late summer cover sowing.
The mature bot fly deposits eggs on horse hairs during hot weather. Eggs hatch, larvae move to the mouth and stomach, attach to the mucous lining for about ten months, then pass with manure as cocooned pupae. Continuous feeding reduces stomach infections in equines.
The three act musical stage adaptation of Geo McManus Bringing Up Father headlines a Colonial Theater show on Friday March 9 with singing dancing and comedy. Also included is a note on Baptists tracing origins in the 17th century and a science snippet on beating egg whites for best texture.
The opera Eurydice, first performed publicly in 1600, drew intense attention. Its score appeared in Florence that year and was dedicated to Marie de Medici. a 1608 Venice edition survives in the British Museum library.
Betty explains twins are babies belonging to the same go cart in a playful family dialogue. Gertrude asks what twins are, and Betty provides the humorous answer about shared father and cart.
An Oklahoma man, rejected by the U S Marine Corps for a missing trigger finger, proved his marksmanship at a local shooting gallery by scoring 26 straight hits on a moving target, demonstrating skill despite disqualification.
Strand-goers enjoyed Marguerite Clark in The Fortunes of Fil as five native Hawaiians made their Athens debut. The company impressed with vocal and instrumental numbers including steel guitar and ukulele, delivering novel and characteristic entertainment.
The piece argues exuberant health surpasses wealth and power, guiding many to success. It notes health discussions are plagued by quackery and superstition, creating widespread distrust and disagreement on practical health rules.
The passage traces early French opera from late 17th century imitators Lulu and Rameau to Gluck shaping French style in the 18th century. It then notes popular successors Meyerbeer Rosini Gounod Thomas and later Massenet and Carpentier as prominent figures.
A compact meditation on fear as a creator of suffering, noting how many personal pains arise from fear itself. The author marks fear as the most malicious demon shaping life, transforming moments into useless, poisonous torment.
A Kansas City Star item notes a Missouri remark about a candidate for the legislature. The line about a two headed girl at the fair sparks a wary laugh as the elderly observer warns that once started down the hill, one tends to worsen with no stop.
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