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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1915
Page
11
Athens scenes feature police praise for crowd control during Georgia Tech baseball games. Lisbon hostilities raise fears as battleships strike. Pensacola bankers face trial for bank suspension. German note and American response remain unsettled.
A mistress finds her new maid seated in the library and scolds her for not dusting. The maid replies she has lost luster and sits on each gabibe chsion in tarot, revealing a curious, unfinished claim as to her tasks and state of work.
Athens is urged to keep the Georgia High School Association annual meeting and state contests in Athens. A University committee will inform residents that hosts will entertain high school superintendents principals and teachers and contestants from each district June 9 to 11. Other cities seek to host, but Athens is seen as the logical durable site with community cooperation and support promised.
A National Geographic study of Courland Livonia and Esthenia outlines the Baltic Provinces as a coastal, German-influenced borderland with 2.5 million inhabitants. It notes German settlers, schools, and press, Russian assimilation efforts, centuries of crusades, and the region’s role in trade and manufacture.
A compact verse urges a knight to live with beauty in life and fill days with kind deeds. It calls for calm, restraint, and fraternity, aiming to model true friendship through daily conduct.
A Harrisburg couple Mr and Mrs T B Carpenter aged in the seventies praise Foley Kidney Pills for curing kidney trouble and claim renewed vigor. The ad also promotes Foley Kidney Pills for bladder issues backache rheumatism and joint pain. Dr Kings New Life Pills are advertised to improve digestion and bowel movement with nightly use and morning relief.
In a high scoring fraternal game Delta Tau Delta defeated Chi Phi 18 to 13 as Pope was knocked out in the sixth and Coleman allowed many runs. Lippett pitched for Chi Phi with heavy hits by Delta Tau Delta in a game halted after seven innings due to darkness. Other frats saw Sigma Nu 6 Sigma Chi 4.
An advertisement touts Rheuma as a scientific remedy that dissolves uric acid, purging joints, kidneys, stomach, liver, and blood to end rheumatic pain. It cites Judge John Barhorst of Fort Loramie Ohio, cured after two bottles, as proof, and notes H R Palmer & Sons offer a no cure no pay plan at 50 cents.
Classic early 20th century ad copy promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonial note from F. J. Cheney and Company, Toledo Ohio. Includes claims of cure and price, plus Sloan's Liniment for rheumatic pain and a money back promise.
The D A R presented the flag for a ceremonial raise at the new Athens high school. Chancellor Barrow led in prayer, followed by a mandolin club performance and a talk by President Pound of the State Normal School on the flag’s history and meaning. A D A R resolution on flag reverence and a reading urged careful, upright display, ending with a Star Spangled Banner performance and a public pledge to flag sacredness.
Mrs Callie Richards of 546 Pulaski St Athens reports back pain easing and kidneys acting properly after using one box of Dean's Kidney Pills. She says she previously felt languid and worn out with irregular kidney action and occasional blurred vision. Price 50 cents at all dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The market opened lower on easier Liverpool cables but soon rallied as limited selling kept prices steady. Active months rose midmorning and afternoon, with private wires citing 40,000 bales awaiting Orient shipment from San Francisco. New Orleans and Atlantic exchanges showed varied toning while Georgia rail rules and tariff notes appeared in the same feed.
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