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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
8
Classified items show personal ads kept confidential with reader discretion. Listings include insurance, bank notices, loan offers, moving services, paint sales, furnished rooms, animal for sale, rental cottage, cafe for sale, and household furniture. Names and addresses are sparse. some contact info provided.
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The Athens Business College announces a new night class for bookkeepers and stenographers to meet rising demand as Civil Service entries and military service pull workers from day classes. It urges both girls and boys under 21 to enroll, noting small cost and future security. Classes begin Monday night, May 14. for information call 877.
Gainesville farmer and merchant Arthur E. Smith visited the State College of Agriculture for guidance and inspection. He predicted food production will be the rule in Hall and nearby counties, with more corn planted than ever before.
Two groups divide their friends into organets and liabilities in a terse, fragmentary note. The source lists no clear events, dates, or named entities beyond generic terms. The passage resembles a shorthand social ledger or a draft outlining group roles and obligations.
A brief humorous exchange about fairness ends with the notion of reversing fortunes. The Lamb notes one player once held all the money, while the other now holds it, illustrating the idea of being even in a playful wagers summary.
Stella Bell eight year old daughter of Mr and Mrs J Austin Bell was struck by an auto on Princes Avenue Wednesday. She rests well with painful but not serious injuries. The car owned by Claude Lockhart and driven by Charlie Ware. Cot Woolver Smith was in the car. Parents were away in Macon on urgent business. Mr Bell plans to press charges citing likely reckless driving.
The round trip to Atlanta for the Georgia Tech game tomorrow costs $1.50 on the S A L. The special rate serves the Athens crowd for the event. Depart Athens 7 10 city time return Atlanta 9 30 Eastern time. An overnighter option is available at $2.00 to stay until Sunday night.
Mr H Cutler operating a market at Hoyt and River Streets was fined 10.75 by the recorder for violating a long standing ordinance barring slaughter or sale of veal below a specified dressed weight. Investigating officers found several small veal halves and quarters showing weights far under the 100 pound calf minimum. They pledged strict enforcement amid concerns over food conservation and shipments of undersized calves into the city.
Edmund Candler calls the Potala the only imposing structure in Lhasa Tibet noting its massive walls terraced bastions rise from plain to crest like a hillside fortress. The description emphasizes its blend of palace and fortress standing on a rock bluff.
A Cleveland Leader brief recalls a family quarrel between a four year old niece and an eight year old nephew before sleep. Linn recites his prayer and asks God not to bless Gretta, saying she isn’t a goor. The anecdote captures a child's mispronunciation and humor from a domestic moment.
Maude praises Gertie’s engagement ring while Gertie admits she must marry or return the ring, highlighting a decisive, fate’s at stake moment in a light social scene. The dialogue pivots on pressure to wed and personal choice within a betrothal context.
Athens youths received notices that their applications for admittance to the officers training camp at Fort McPherson were accepted. They were ordered to report today or tomorrow for service in the school for prospective officers. From Athens and Atlanta, named individuals were instructed to report by Sunday, with others expected to be notified.
Mr R M Guess the University Y M C A student secretary, who planned to resign in June for two years of college work, will instead go this week to Atlanta to join Y M C A activities for the officers training camp at Fort McPherson. He has served two terms on the Mexican border and is familiar with the military side of the association work.
Two new members were yesterday added to the Athens chapter list by the membership committee chairwoman Mrs A R Nicholson and Mrs Willis Cook. Miss Rube Southworth of New York, a traveling visitor, also named as a subscribing member after already joining as a regular member weeks ago.
John Bell alias Red Bell a colored man was yesterday bound over by Judge Carlisle Cobb to appear in the higher court to answer a charge for having had on hand a quantity of liquor The Marable colored man will also be given a preliminary hearing Saturday on the same charge Both cases were originally made by city police officers.
The Godfrey De Bouillon Commandery No. 14 Knights Tem ples T. will hold a regular conclave this Friday evening May 11 1917 at eight oclock. Asylum is on the third floor Max Joseph building. H L Stewart MO G Quinn Recorder.
A contemplative fragment reflecting on love and strife as perpetual forces that cyclically rise and fall in human life. The passage suggests these opposing powers govern fate and recur through endless time.
A reflective note from the Ohio State Journal contemplates the cost of regrets after a spill in a garage and its effects on clothing and self. It weighs how life might have been different without the incident.
A longtime user, Mrs. J A Conyers, credits Jackson's Cordial with curing her springtime stomach pains after many medicines failed. She reports color returning and restored health, adding neighbors also benefited. The ad claims the cordial purifies blood, acts as a tonic, and recommends its use for various stomach liver kidney and blood troubles. It asserts universal availability from all druggists.
The New Era Club hosted an enjoyable dance last night on Clayton street with visitors from Jefferson, Comer, Watkinsville, Royston and Crawford. The Home School Club met at Mrs. Cox's home for a paper on Austria-Hungary by Mrs. Strahan, followed by discussion and refreshments. Mrs. J. B. Brooks's guest Mrs. D. J. Hamilton, tax collector Mr. Walter A. Mallory, and Mr. Arthur Burch were noted. Miss Mary A. Bacon returned from Raleigh, and Mrs. Cyprian Willcox visits Athens with former pupils.
In 1831 the Times labelled the Earl of Limerick as a person with human pretensions, triggering a libel case. The printer faced a £100 fine and confinement for an indefinite period in Newgate, as noted by the London Observer.
A concise reflection on human fallibility and resilience, noting that error is natural yet perseverance defines character. The piece weighs the tension between fault and effort, urging steady progress despite slips.
Robert Bowman Yale graduate and son of a Chicago businessman, served eighteen months with the American Ambulance Corps at Verdun. He earned the Croix de Guerre for bravery during a thirty six hour gas attack rescue. Bowman, who carried an American flag mother gave him, will recount front line experiences with stereopticon views at the sixth night of the Redpath Chautauqua in Athens.
Athens physicians envision a self run medical school with about a dozen doctors organizing lectures and exams among themselves. They will select topics and texts, hold two weekly meetings, and rotate teaching duties to share expertise and mutual benefit.
President Wilson backs a nationwide Red Cross effort led by Cleveland Dodge and Seward Prosser of New York to raise a war fund through local chapters. Chapters must mobilize finance committees, host campaigns, and allocate up to 25 percent for local needs while sending the rest to National HQ. War council to authorize chapter purchases and later assess local civilian relief as mobilization grows. Immediate executive committee meetings requested with telegraphic confirmation of cooperation.
A reader notes that about twenty percent of a potato is pared away by typical home prep, wasting salts and vitamins. Boiled or baked potatoes eaten with the skin left on preserve more of their food value, while skinless cooking loses much of the potato’s soluble salts and nutrients.
A young man tells a father he has his daughter's consent to marry. The father remarks that the daughter's yes settles it, leaving the suitor to wonder if he is too young to wed such a girl.
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