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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1917

Page

6

Advertisements and notices from The Banner rail

A collage of classifieds includes insurance pitches from Lipscomb, savings bank offers from The Athens Savings Bank, rental notices for rooms and a cottage, sales of prints by Curtis Cameron Co, a request for a Pandora 1893 copy, vehicle ads from Athens Overland Co and tire services, sale of Pearl White Shortening, shirt promotions from Levy's, furniture refinishing by Thomas Bros, and various farm and household listings. The items show local business promos and rental and sale notices with multiple phone numbers and addresses.

Lost or Strayed Pups and Local Notices Collide With House Rules

A ragged mix of classified items and legislative notes appears in this clipping. It includes puppy loss notices and rewards for two dogs, a seed and fertilizer ad, factory job openings at Bibb Manufacturing Porterdale, and a dense procedural report on a legislative committee’s actions and a House bill re-referral. The text weaves obituaries of routine notices with political procedural detail and small-town commerce.

Big fight on constitutionality in Georgia House debate

The Georgia House grapples with a governor call and constitutionality as Speaker Burwell excludes noncall topics from consideration. Rep Knight presses debate, Rep Blackburn argues the resolution aligned with prior statements, while a 125 to 16 vote tabling the bill ends a stalled administration prohibition measure.

Byprwell House Blackburn Special Temperance Committee Burwell Representative Swift Muscogee Wohlwender Jackson Chatham Knight Berrien County Sumter Berrien Dorsey Cecil Neill Andrews Arnold Clarke Atkinson Fulton Beck Murray Brinson

No Doubt About This Foley Cathartic Tablets Ad

Foley cathartic tablets are plain physic that act promptly on the bowels without pain or nausea. They keep the stomach sweet and the liver active, banish biliousness headaches sour stomach and indigestion. H R Palmer and Sons ads.

H.R. Palmer & Sons Ady

How to Prevent Croup

When the child is subject to attacks of croup see to it that he eats a light evening meal as an overloaded stomach may bring on an attack also watch for the first symptom hoarseness and give Chamberlains Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse obtainable every where

General and Special Tax Ordinances Passed by Council Remains

List of municipal tax rates for diverse businesses and professions continues from page 1. Entries include cigarette dealers 25 dollars. cigar manufacturers 5 dollars. circuses 500 dollars. coal yards 25 dollars per 3 wagons plus 10 each addl. detectives 100 dollars. dry goods wholesale 75 dollars. electric lighting company 250 dollars. hotel grades 25 to 100 dollars. insurance 10 to 50 dollars. labor agents 500 dollars. moving picture show places 100 dollars. money lenders 76 dollars. newspapers 25 dollars. opera house 100 dollars. oil companies 150 dollars. pawnbrokers 100 dollars. pistol dealers 50 dollars. telegraph companies 100 and 75. street sellers 10 dollars per month. vaudeville 10 dollars per day. wrestling matches 25 dollars per match.

Druys Electric Lighting Company Express Company

Matching tastes seal a wary marriage alliance

The bride and Henry affirm shared tastes while Henry's mother-in-law bluntly notes their mutual fear and obsession. The exchange suggests a tense engagement grounded in controlling affection and ominous anticipation of unity.

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Clarke Farmers Plan Velvet Bean Carload For Seed and Feed

Clarke county farmers arrange to buy a solid carload of velvet beans for seed and forage. At 90 cents a bushel the beans plus expected hay value could yield about 2.60 per unit of forage. County Agent Joe Woodruff notes plans for about a dozen silos to be built this spring to save pasture. The Clarke County Agricultural Club, newly organized, will meet Saturday at 10 in the courthouse to elect officers and draft by laws.

Clarke Clarke County Joe Woodruff Oconee Clarke County Agricultural Club James W. Morton We. Woodruff John T. Pitta J. G. Woodruff du Prep

YMCA Builds Huts on Mexican Border Camps

A photo shows a YMCA building amid border camp structures with a report noting four months of work. Thirty eight association buildings or huts were erected, six cars used for supervision, and 145 secretaries from city and student associations served. Ten million sheets of paper five million envelopes and ten thousand quarts of ink were furnished free to soldiers.

Bible Work Progress Tally from Mission Assembly

Thirty moving picture machines in constant use. Fifty-three grafanolas with 2,200 records provided. Three thousand checker boards, quoits and other games. Sixty tons of magazines gathered and distributed. Ten thousand hymn books provided. Twenty thousand New Testaments and portions given away. One hundred Gospel meetings a week held and crowded. Scores of Bible players with secre tarial and volunteer Bible and Prayer League. Soldiers and officers say, Could not go without you.

Bible and Prayer League

Through Rail Link Boosts South to New England Travel

Special to the Banner reports that the Hell Gate bridge completion in New York will connect the Pennsylvania and New Haven systems, enabling through service from Boston to Washington and potentially to New Orleans and other southern cities. The $27 million bridge promises faster south to New England travel and broader trade and tourism.

Washington, D. C South Boston New England Hell Gate East River New York Pennsylvania New Haven Washington Southern Railway New Orleans Mobile Montgomery Atlanta Birmingham Memphis Chattanooga Knoxville Great Cotton Mill District Piedmont East River Tubes Long Island Hell Gate Bridge

Cavalry Guard German Escorts to Forts

The Seventeenth United States Infantry, assigned to guard German escorts, left El Paso yesterday for transportation from Philadelphia to Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia and Fort McPherson.

Associated Press el Paso Seventeenth United States Infantry Philadelphia Ft. Oglethorpe Ft. McPherson

Good Salesmen and Their temperaments in Industry

The text discusses the efficient salesman as a man who, with his tendency and ideas, uniquely understands the more temperamental and emotional sales type. It notes the salesman seeks a looser role than the toolmaker, laborer, and office clerk, and gains it because he can go where he can have it.

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Mot In the American Jour? of the necessity

A compact note in a historic journal discusses the practical need to wring out excessively hot cloths, outlining the ritualistic care and improvised methods used to temper fabrics. The piece emphasizes endurance and resourcefulness in domestic tasks during challenging conditions.

Misplaced Comma Leads to Printer’s Cautionary Tale

A printer’s anecdote highlights the danger of a stray comma in a short story. The line reads that two young men and two young ladies spend the early evening together and, after they left, the girls got drunk. The misplacement risk underscores precision in punctuation.

Moths Hated by Wrapping Winter Clothes in Newspapers

Wrap winter garments in newspapers before storing for summer to deter moth damage. The method emphasizes using paper as a protective barrier to keep moths from harming the fabrics.

Also Mentioned on This Page

Prince Avenue Mr. Stark Athens E. K. Lumpkin Erwin & Company J. D. Bradwell Lipscomb Insurance J. C. Jester Athens Savings Bank D. G. Bickers Copley McGregor Co Williams Bros Atheny Overland Co Gale J. Banner R. H Milledge Ave Louis Camak Athens Overland Co Ath Curtis & Cameron Co Pandora CC. E. Brunson Perry, Ga Athens Tire Service Co Washington St McGregor Curtis & Cameron Ead Levy Thomas Bros Cobb St Erwin & Co Tuthueu M. G. Dearing T. Anderson oouLuadae Ava Gracedale Greenhouses D. G. Anderson & Co Clayton Street Athens Engineering Co Reid Drug Co Porterdale W. A. Woodruff Bibb Manufacturing Company ITIES SUPT Bigg Manufacturing Company Southern Cotton Oil Company John B. Wier Pulaski Street Lipscomb & Co Frank A. Lipscomb Thia Svu Mre Anna Byrd Tuscumbia Ala Foley H. R. Palmer & Sons Sam C. Small Clayton, N. M Adv
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