This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 18 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1917
Page
6
Classified snippets include insurance offers from Lipscamp and Jester, savings bank rates at Athens Savings Bank, rental listings for rooms and a 7-room cottage, used car sales from Athens Overland Co, and lost livestock notices. Readers are urged to answer only the published address and not seek advertiser identities.
Judge Chas H Brand congressman elect from the Eighth district of Georgia is active. A bulletin from the Associated Press says an extra session of Congress is called for April 16. Brand reads the notice first as it is posted near the Banner office.
The Phi Kappa debate champions for the year are Dick Courts of Atlanta J E Patterson of Fitzgerald and Madden Hatcher of Atlanta with Hatcher serving as the alternate.
Mr. Willis of the Penn Mutual offices in Atlanta spent yesterday in Athens with local representative B. Wilkins. He addressed the University School of Commerce students Thursday on Insurance. His son attends the university and is making an enviable record.
At a hearing before Judge Walter C. Cornett two Walton county men named Tom Lawson and E Vaughn were bound over to the federal court on a charge of making Moonshine whiskey.
French public entertainers from Opera to variety halls tour rest camps behind the front lines delivering performances for troops. Luien Boyer, a Bohemian poet now private in the Alpine corps, sparked the program. Actresses volunteer, travel free, and performers receive no pay while soldiers receive standard rations and pay.
A government report to the ministries of foreign affairs and the interior cites 35,298,908 Chinese Christians split between Catholics and Protestants. It counts 2,717 churches and 4,288 chapels, eight Bible Societies, 181 mission hospitals and medical schools, 9 missionary colleges, 171 mission middle schools, 2,557 missionary-led primary schools, 1,836 male and 2,716 female foreign missionaries, 902 native preachers and 8,381 native assistant preachers, 1,103 native Bible women, 2,799 mission teachers and 186,130 students, with 832 physicians in mission hospitals.
The representative Japanese organization led by Prince Tokugawa plans to send a special commission to Entente countries to express sympathy and collect public donations across Japan. It notes millions suffer including dead injured orphans widows and other victims and asks contributions to aid Allied forces.
Petrograd reports a large municipal funding push with a one million rouble appropriation for a university foundation in a town. Ekaterinburg will complete mine school facilities and host a School of Road and Bridge Building under the government roads and bridges department, ready before the next term.
Associated Press report from El Paso notes all guardsmen in the district must be en route home by March 21 to be mustered out by April 1. The First Georgia Infantry and the Georgia infantry brigade headquarters are ordered to depart March 14.
The Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery conferred eleven degrees from four p m through midnight with a supper break at the Georgian Hotel. The Red Cross Knights of Malta and the Order of Knighthood were awarded as visiting Sir Knights joined local members in the long session.
Rawson and Culbreath of the University of Georgia, top all Southern stars, are recommended to the Colonels by seasoned baseball men as promising young players. Manager Clymer observes their work at Sanford Field where the Louisville team trains, showing keen interest in their potential.
A blaze yesterday afternoon in Russellville just east of Winder burned three houses. Among the ruined structures were the home of Mr Walker Wright, the combined store and residence of Mr Hadaway, and the adjacent residence beside Hadaway’s, causing heavy losses to the owners.
Samuel Hardman Lever, prominent U S accountant and treasurer official, receives the Most Honorable Order of the Bath from the King. Lever, born in Liverpool but long based in the United States, later served as financial secretary to the Treasury and assistant financial secretary to the Ministry of Munitions. A munitions chief lauds his work saving the country many millions of pounds, noting he did so without pay.
Headed by McMahan and forming local industry, Lipscomb & Co. Fire Insurance Agency invites Athens citizens to buy Athens made clothing to save five to ten dollars per suit. The message urges support for local enterprise, highlighting cheaper prices and community growth.
Winterville Georgia March 9 dedication of a new school building in a two hour program with Chancellor Barrow and Dr Howard W Odum addressing the audience. The structure includes recitation rooms an auditorium seating six hundred plus and modern classrooms with new desks and equipment.
Highth District Agricultural will hold a rally at Bishop on the coming Wednesday drawing thousands from Oconee county and beyond. Sidney Reaves will give a welcome for the society and a miniature State College of Agriculture model farm and a gavel made from the Toombs Oak head the day’s features. Mrs. Bruce Jones of Macon owns the gavel and will loan it for the event. The program lists prayers, welcomes, several addresses, and an afternoon session with handicrafts and lace making demonstrations.
About 1 580 persons passed the Han cock Lumpkin corner yesterday between 9 a m and 3 p m. The Electric Co counted for an estimating contest at the Ten Days Electric Appliance Sale which ends today. The closest guesses were 1516 1500 and 1865 and Mr Moody won the stove. The prize is a $16 machine motor set to be awarded tonight.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.