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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1915
Page
8
A promotional piece urges joining Erwin's list of Bags for the Bride satisfied policy holders. It promotes efficient service and low-cost policies while outlining a bag shower idea at a luncheon to equip the future bride with dust rag, broom, laundry and closet bags among others.
A compact page of classified fills with mileage coupon notices, rental listings, sale items, and local business ads. Highlights include a 4 percent Athens Savings Bank note, For Sale items such as a Wales Visible Adding and Listing Machine and a Fine Diamond Ring, a 6 room rental, and various services from Davison Nicholson Co and Athens Jewelry. Also a playful trivia question about frogs’ legs.
A business property in Athens changed hands for 2000 dollars. The unit was rented for 25 dollars per month to a reliable tenant for a 12 month term.
A Washington Star note explains a simple to make semievening frock design. The gown uses a white chiffon guimpe over a soft bust and a full skirt with minimal bodice material. The verbal diagram and sketch show how to reuse taffeta for a similar style.
A bridal party custom features a large decorative bag hung in the bride’s room. Friends donate gifts dropped into the bag as the bride parades among guests. The bag’s silk cover, lace trim, and ribbon hooks reflect a festive, intimate pre wedding ritual.
A 1920s style note declares the ankle to be stylish again with longer skirts. Hosiery shops preview champagne and burgundy stockings and patent leather boots with cream uppers. Spats are fading, and women welcome the ankle while a man criticizes the trend.
The description details a white chiffon peasant bodice with shoulder straps, high waist corded line, narrow frill, and tiny bows or lacing. A long sleeves guimpe in true peasant style sits over the bust with a neck ruffle. Sleeves are shirted at wrists with ruffles. the skirt features deep scallops, taffeta trimming, and rose accents between scallops filled with lace.
Mothers facing meals away from home can place a napkin without a bib by tying two knots in one corner of the napkin and tucking the knotted end into the dress at the neck. The knotted end weights the napkin so it stays in place, a handy improvised method for guardians.
Fashion notes liken belts on jackets to a form of militarism and mark a shift toward a traditional waistline. Empire lines reappear with evening gowns echoing Josephine era ornament, returning to a single large front adornment.
Mr. R F Maddox prominent banker and former Atlanta mayor will speak at the Athens Chamber of Commerce June meeting. The event date was moved to the evening of the 8th during commencement period. Maddox will present a substantial business topic of interest to the trade group.
Delegates from across the South arrive for the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Houston with V S Masters reporting about two and a half million church members, an increase of over sixty three thousand since the last convention.
A sermon extols five proofs of Jesus divinity and urges immediate personal acceptance. It contrasts rejecting Christ with quiet ingratitude and warns that failure to confess him meals spiritual peril. The talk emphasizes prayer in Jesus name and asserts believers draw on divine riches through faith.
A heated exchange unfolds as an amateur and a testy old woman exchange barbs. The reporter parries insults and maintains composure amid a tense confrontation captured in the scene.
Judge Smith of Rabun county enlists the University of Georgia School of Engineering and the state road supervisor for extensive road improvements. Engineering crews surveyed the route from Wiley to the North Carolina line and reduced mileage toward the railroad. The project aims to link Asheville Franklin Athens and Atlanta with a north south main road and an east west route Clayton Blue Ridge Rabun Towns Union and Blue Ridge users expect better produce outlets and quicker transport.
Chicago May 11 Jacob M Dick inson secretary of war under President Taft says he believes Germany will not disavow its aim to destroy the Lusitania and that if war comes it should be only in the right. He warns that actions against Germany will affect the world and public opinion. Mrs C E Drecker of Toledo will visit Athens a few weeks. George Harrison and Pau Barnes plan a tea dansant after the Georgia Tech games at Holman Hall. Proof Positive Dont you be afraid Fritz.
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