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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1917
Page
4
The Athens Banner outlines subscription rates for the Athens Daily Banner from 1832 and explains delivery methods. It notes annual, semiannual, and quarterly prices, plus a weekly rate, with payment options by express, money order, registered letter, or check. It also requests timely notice to the business office for delivery failures or late service.
The piece urges public support for the American army with notes on liberty loan contributions by Uncle John D and others, calls for registration of army age men, mentions submarine losses easing, and notes political shifts in Russia while urging civic actions like gardening, Red Cross support, and liberty bond purchases. It cites a local draft canvassing showing only 1,175 of 32,000 enlisted in a given area.
The piece argues for harsh penalties including lengthy prison terms for food speculators who raise prices on essential goods. It frames the food question as wartime urgency, calling speculators enemies and criminals, urging Congress to act before famine worsens and poor households suffer further.
County voters are urged to support a new local tax law to improve rural school funding, arguing current state funds are inadequate. The piece notes past profits from the Athens dispensary aided nine month terms and warns that its abolition reduced school lengths. It appeals to residents to consider cost versus benefit and to vote yes in the upcoming election.
The University of Georgia contributes fully to wartime needs. Fifty students entered the Atlanta officers training camp, with nearly three hundred alumni having attended it. Seventy students remain on campus to grow crops, while over a dozen agricultural students serve as farm demonstrators. The university runs special wartime classes and its faculty stands ready for government service. Next session it aims to lead Georgia's military training and education, producing leaders among graduates and students.
A type cartoon depicts a man planting a garden where Liberty seed is sown. The ground is poorly prepared, allowing cultivation to fail and revert to license as the crop matures. D. G. signs the caption, framing the date of the joke.
A young speaker weighs patriotic duty against personal cost. He doubts fighting for national disputes yet feels ancestral resolve and a claim to honor. The poem contrasts fear of death with inherited duty and the eventual readiness to join if necessity dictates.
An article promotes tonoline as a flesh building aid for thin individuals. It urges drinking cold water several times daily and consuming tonoline tablets with meals to improve digestion and convert food into fat laden blood. It claims 15 to 30 pounds gain and offers store guarantees.
A New York university freshman recalls his first city impression on the ferry crossing the Hudson. He describes the skyline as an amazing sight and notes such optical illusions of relative motion as not uncommon, highlighting Edwin B. Slosson’s observation in the New York Independent.
A reader from Spencerport New York extols Chamberlains Tablets claiming positive lasting relief after years of stomach trouble. The column also includes cheerful reminders to stay cheerful and warnings about gambling, plus a speech urging preservation of distinctively colored folk songs and a dated poem by Frederick H. McDonald.
W M Acworth, English railway authority, told the Newlands Interstate Commerce Committee that US transport costs must rise with production and that railroads require more credit to expand. He urged ending centralized regulation for a single agency and warned democratic governments rarely run railways efficiently. He contrasted Prussia and Australia with private US railways, praising American private enterprise as superior to government ownership.
Dick Myers plans to meet a sister’s guest but learns on the Glendale train that the intended Margaret Osborne is Elizabeth Winants. The encounter leads to a homecoming mix up with Elizabeth posing as a substitute guest and Dick realizing duty may bring unexpected rewards.
Gainesville Midland By timetable for January 23 1916 lists Athens departures and arrivals with trains 2 4 and 1. Train 2 leaves Athens at 7 20 am Train 4 leaves Athens at 2 20 pm Train 1 arrives Athens 11 40 am Train 4 arrives Athens 6 40 pm Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder Monroe and intermediate points with Georgia Railroad for all points and with Southern Railway north and south.
Southern Railway Athens Branch trains depart daily at 8 20 am 1 00 pm 3 15 pm sun only 3 15 pm daily except Sun 3 20 pm trains arrive 11 40 pm 12 40 pm 6 50 pm 9 45 am for information contact H Williams commercial agent and R L Johnson ticket agent Lodge Directory lists St Elmo Lodge Knights of Pythias St Elmo Lodge 40 meets Mondays 8 30 pm at Castle Hall Clayton Street. Williams Lodge 16 meets Mondays Odd Fellows Hall Max Joseph Building. Glenn Lodge 75 meets Tuesdays Odd Fellows Hall Max Joseph Building. Athens BPC E no 790 meets second and fourth Wednesdays 8 30 pm at lodge quarters Broad and Lampkin Sts. Mt Vernon Lodge 22 F and A M meets Thursdays Masonic Hall Max Joseph Building Clayton St. Geo B Davis Camp 292 W O W meets Wednesdays Woodmen Hall Max Joseph Building 8 00 pm first third business second fourth degree team. Woodmen signs cordial invitations note.
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