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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
8
Local ads list banking rates, shoe repairs, dental and medical contacts, rentals, sales of goods, livestock, and services. Specifics include Athens Savings Bank notices, Oldham's Shoe Rennery offers, dental and medical services, rental listings, Ford car sales, and employment/house notices among community notices.
Advert shows daily specials at Piggly Wiggly and nearby shops. Fresh produce includes tomatoes asparagus lettuce and celery, with fruit like grapefruits oranges cherr ies. Baked goods and coffee promotions note Corby’s Cakes and Peaberry coffee offers alongside department store items and other meats.
A historic menu from Thornton's Luncheonette offers a plate dinner at 85 cents with soup, fricasse chicken or roast beef, sides, and desserts. Supper features breaded veal chops, French fries, pearl grits, stewed apples, and peach a la merangue, plus beverages.
Special to The Banner reports that all indictments in the north Georgia district federal court for alleged profiteering under the Lever Act have been dismissed. The action follows telegraphic instructions from the attorney general and a Supreme Court ruling deeming Lever Act provisions unconstitutional. Cases including the Standard Oil Company were among those not pressed.
A local grocery firm faces profiteering charges over alleged sugar price gouging. The case, framed as a test matter, goes before the supreme court for ruling on excess pricing practices.
Letters discuss how Easter Sunday is determined as the first Sunday after Good Friday and after the first full moon following March 21. The writer explains the sequence of events from the crucifixion to resurrection and notes scenarios where the timing shifts. The letter reflects a reader’s effort to explain the ecclesiastical rule and its reliance on lunar and solar dates.
At a commitment trial before Judge Carlyle Cobb on Wednesday afternoon Will Dye alias Nude Dye, a black man, was ordered held to the grand jury at the April term of the superior court on a charge of assault with intent to murder. His bond was fixed at $1000. Dye allegedly cut George Moore on the night of February 26, a white man and University of Georgia student. Dye denied the charges and claimed an alibi, though Moore and witnesses identified him.
Atlanta to Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic railroad officials report a switch near Thalmann Georgia was cocked with a bolt wedged between points and rail but a passenger train engineer observed it in time to stop.
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