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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1916
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists subscription rates and delivery notes for Athens readers, with reminders on proper subscription sales and service issues. It reports on Prohibition era debates, international notes, and local Civic topics including the Monroe drainage convention and fabric dye shortages.
The movement to unite the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Protestant Methodist Church with the Methodist Episcopal Church gains momentum. Resolutions favor merger on a common basis, with planned separate jurisdictions under one general management. Some leaders anticipate benefits, while others oppose unification.
Officials in Atlanta pour hundreds of gallons of confiscated liquor into sewers as enforcement of the state prohibition law expands. Officers anticipate uncovering more violations while prohibitionists push for a federal ban on interstate liquor traffic.
Georgia must expand its educational funding and adopt local tax support for schools. Compulsory education is also needed, with lawmakers urged to enact a statewide law. The piece argues four times current spending and local funding, plus mandatory schooling, are essential for real progress.
The Manufacturers Record urges readers to coordinate railways steel industries and highways for war readiness. It warns the nation is untrained unarmed and unorganized and calls on manufacturers to study and adapt business to support national defense, contrasting with union church talk in Saratoga and Atlanta courtroom battles.
Dade county farmer H. H. McCauley reports long stomach trouble improved after Tanlac use. He says appetite returned, weight rose from 138 1/2 to 152 pounds, digestion improved, and he now works from sunrise to sunset. Sold exclusively in Athens and Winterville.
A religious lecture reflects on Acts chapters covering the origin of the term Christian and the conversion of Saul to Paul. It links the name to missionary work, tracing how early followers in Antioch and Athens earned the designation, and how Paul gained his new name after meeting Sergius Paulus.
Last night at the State College of Agriculture teams from Auburn Alabama and North Carolina A M Raleigh debated whether the United States should adopt rural credits on foreign system lines. North Carolina won with the negative side. Georgia defeated Alabama while Georgia beat North Carolina.
The Tallulah Falls Railway Company applies to the Georgia Railroad Commission for authority to raise its local freight rates to full Class D tariff levels. A hearing is scheduled for May 28, 1916 at 10:00 A.M. in the State Capitol Atlanta with interested parties invited to be heard. Signed by H. W. Miller, Vice President.
In Danielsville Georgia Nodh Alewine nineteen died at home from a gunshot after a pistol thought to be unloaded discharged while Paul Alewine fifteen and Noah Alewine played with it. The shot entered above the ear and the victim lived four hours. The Alewine family mourns as parents cope with the loss.
Public health notice warns measles scarlet fever and whooping cough spread among schoolchildren and urges prompt treatment for cold. Foley’s Honey and Tar advertised as a pleasant quick remedy without opiates. Also an information feature for women highlights kidney bladder issues and Foley kidney pills claim to restore healthy kidney and bladder function.
Georgia Railroad announces trains No. 60 departing 8 30 a m No 62 4 00 p m and No 66 4 30 p m on Sundays only No 61 arriving 12 30 p m tally except Sundays No 53 arriving 9 30 p m and No 67 arriving 12 m
Seaboard Air Line timetable shows southbound trains No 11 at 5 30 and No 17 at 7 10 and northbound No 30 at 10 40 am No 6 at 6 17 pm and No 18 at 7 48 pm with other numbers and times unreadable on the page.
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