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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1917
Page
4
The Athens Banner notes newspaper policies and carrier practices while highlighting civic events. It reports Bird Day in Georgia, enlistments, and the Navy recruitment push, alongside a feature urging traders to boost home commerce through advertising and a Chicago mail order house's vast growth in 1916.
In Athens a campaign against the fly pest is urged as seasonal action. Citizens are asked to keep lots kitchens stables and premises clean and to take decisive swats against the fly to reduce typhoid fever and improve city health.
The piece argues the United States’ immigrant mix, especially Germans and Austrians, must prove loyalty if war comes. It predicts most will support the adopted country, while some may plot treachery, urging government vigilance and possible harsh justice to deter others.
College athletics emphasize base ball football and track and field. Georgia records strong in baseball and football while basketball rises with new leadership. Spring opens outdoor sports and field day March 31 with four classes competing. Dual meet with Clemson in April and state meet in Atlanta. I A A meet in Knoxville depends on early meet results. Field Day remains key annual event drawing student athletes and spectators.
A vintage ad touts Pape's Diapepsin promising relief from sour stomach indigestion gas heartburn and belching in five minutes. It urges readers to keep a fifty cent case at home and use it during daytime or night for rapid, sure relief from fermentation and acidity.
Mrs. H. C. Anthony and Miss Mat tie Chandler return from Tampa visits while Cleo England and Ruth Kerlin close Jackson County schools for a break. A teachers meeting at the school drew twenty two, and the Glee Club from the State Normal School will perform Friday night. Athens merchants donate prizes for a two hour track meet with no admission, starting 3 30 and proceeding rapidly.
The article argues naturalization should require a clear willingness to fight for the United States in war. It ridicules German speakers in Fort McPherson as too tolerant of euphemisms and reflects wartime suspicions. It notes Athens hosts the Loulayilla baseball club for spring training and cites regional savings figures with Georgia and South Carolina leading in different metrics.
The listing details Strand programs for Thursday and Friday with Vivian Marti The Spirit of Xopenca and Lockwood Mae Allison The Promise plus a comedy Western and a digestion remedy ad. Lodge notes list several lodges meeting weekly in Athens with officers and meeting places in Max Joseph Building and nearby halls.
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