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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists subscription rates and urges prompt business office reports for late or missing deliveries. It warns carriers cannot collect subscriptions and notes neutrality while commenting on current events and local sports, education programs, and a Galveston News souvenir.
Practical June advice urges porch meals in pleasant weather and planning work for cool mornings. It suggests putting up early fruits for winter, washing yellowed linens and bleaching in sunlight, and dedicating part of each day to gardening.
Seventy Athens Chamber of Commerce members will tour the Gainesville region on the 25th, visiting Helen in White county. The trip aims to foster business ties with Gainesville and other line towns, enjoy the mountain air and barbecue, and promote retail wholesale trade discussions. Wives may accompany, creating a larger social gathering.
Southern Baptist Convention in Houston reports 24,338 churches with 2,588,633 members. Texas leads with 336,678 members. Georgia 293,244. Global totals reach 7,096,471 Baptists in 83 regions, with missions giving $1,759,821 and overall contributions $13,073,939.
The South offers low priced land in the humid belt near markets with strong soil, climate, and moisture. Census figures show 255,684,980 acres undeveloped and 18.79 percent cultivated. Farmland averages $18.47 an acre while net profit per acre averages 100.4 percent, far above many states.
A poem in which the speaker contemplates moral vanity and self righteousness. The narrator hears the Tempter extolling minor sins while visions of mother and pious friends, and Christ reveal that a blameless life still wounds those who love the speaker most.
The Memorial Association of the South and the Daughters of the Confederacy are non political in meetings. UDC founder work includes monuments, cemeteries, scholarships, and memorials honoring Confederate dead across the South. Judge Ross praised Southern women for inspiring soldiers and preserving Southern ideals through memorial work.
A whimsical fable from Egypt’s animal conference ends with two unlikely climbers, the eagle and the snail, reaching the Pyramid summit. The tale by D. G. B. presents a playful moral on patience and perseverance.
Athens residents endorse Doan's Kidney Pills for weak kidneys and backache after trial failures. A traveling salesman, G. A. Boone of 130 Barrow St., testifies the remedy helped his family member since childhood, with continued good results and relief from backache. Price 50c at dealers.
A Westminster Teacher notes how a child speaks of Bruce as dastardly, reflecting the playful, associative thought of youth. The piece contrasts this with Love as a beautifier that elevates life, calling love’s words blessings and its every breath inspirational.
Special to the Banner reports that State Game Commissioner Charles L. Davis plans to publish in the department's upcoming annual report the names of Georgians indicted and convicted for violations of state game and fish laws. The list is said to include many well known residents.
European researchers introduce a new flashlight powder made of peroxide of lanthanum with gas lamp mantle additives. It produces excellent light while generating less than one tenth the smoke and fumes of prior powders, reducing danger and odor.
Detailed sewing notes describe gathering ruffles to the width of bands and positioning at the waist. Instructions note upper edge gathers between double TT perforations, a small o perforation under the arm seam, and a large O on the girdle to guide upper edge and boning. Finish with a narrow taffeta band. Pattern No 6210 for ages 14 to 20 years, price 15 cents. sold by J Boley on Broad Street.
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