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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1917
Page
8
Advertisements and notices calling attention to services and goods. Local references include insurance promotions, loan offers, moving services, a found cameo brooch on Lumpkin Street, a Studebaker car for sale or trade, room rentals, a route boy needed, and an insurance pitch from New England Mutual via M. J. Abney.
An old advertisement touts Sloan's liniment for sprains bruises and muscle soreness. It promises quick relief from rheumatic pains neuralgia gout and grippe with easy application no staining or pore clogging and a 25 cent price at druggists.
Mr C J O Farrell, long associated with Atlanta Milling Co, has been ill at the Hull street home of Mr and Mrs W R Booth but is steadily improving. He has worked through North and South Carolina, building a wholesale merchant network and strong memories among friends in Georgia and the Carolinas.
A Brandon Springs Alabama reader reports a baby with severe whooping cough improved quickly after using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The note claims the remedy is widely obtainable and highly successful.
Last night the city hall tower fire bell rang irregularly and intermittently due to electrical disturbances in the atmosphere triggering the telephonic alarm system. The bell tapped arbitrarily as shocks disrupted the line.
At a special Athens Chamber of Commerce meeting, directors adopted resolutions defending Athens support for the State Normal School. They rebut Col. B S Miller’s remarks alleging Athens neglect, outlining local funding and civic aid from 1891 onward and urging an apology or correction for the record. The document details initial financing, university and state support, building projects, scholarships, and civic involvement that sustained the school.
The Redpath Chautauqua finished a seven day series with Creatore leading his band in a concert before thousands despite bad weather. A second concert yesterday afternoon met Creature standard. Organizers hope to return to Athens next year.
Tonight the University of Georgia Athletic Board will decide whether to continue in inter-collegiate football and baseball for fall 1917 and spring 1918. With many students in officer training and potential drafts, action likely to suspend or modify athletics this war season, signaling a pause in Southern intercollegiate competition.
Hon H J Fullbright of Waynesboro is appointed to the Normal School board in Augusta, filling the vacancy caused by Prof Lawton B Evans resignation due to ill health. Fullbright has long been active in state politics, chairing appropriations at times and supporting higher education, especially teachers training at this college.
A school committee discusses a sailing party planned for students. Some fear the event conflicts with school interests and a resolution is proposed to guide trustees and the Governor. The chairman presents the report as a formal recommendation from the committee for adoption.
Predictions were made that work will begin this week to rebuild the fire swept area in Atlanta where the loss runs to about 3.5 million dollars. The blaze destroyed roughly 1,560 buildings, with a hail storm and heavy rain raising further property damage in the stricken district.
The Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia continues to underwrite life insurance without war restrictions. All policies become incontestable one year after issue. Founded in 1865, it is among America’s strongest firms with low rates and a fair record for policyholders. Local agent H. P. Lawrence invites calls at phone 716 to secure these contracts before withdrawal.
A wire from Dick Jemison proposes Athens consider joining the Georgia Alabama league to finish the season in Gadsden’s spot. Athens leaders doubt wartime conditions and spring college interest will support a pro team, noting prior mixed results with summer and semi pro clubs.
The text contrasts Biblical manna with natural desert products named manna from the Arab and Oriental regions and asserts Biblical manna as miraculous, not a natural product. It ends with an instruction to advertise wants.
The Liverpool director of education proclaims a new finding likened to Columbus's voyage. He says boys have a strong passion for watching men at work, a phenomenon also observed in many men.
A family tale recounts Donald climbing a cherry tree to pick scarce fruit and tossing them to Buster below. Buster boasted about twenty cherries in his hat, and Donald urged him to descend saying they could share what remained for a stomach ache.
The text proclaims a supreme ruler, blessed above all others, who governs the kingdom of Self-Respect from an unchallenged throne. It asserts his dominion remains secure within benign boundaries, immune to invasion, and that he is the master and maker of destinies eternal and abiding.
The English favor playful sobriquets, once naming a chambermaid Abigail and a man servant a flunky and a soldier a lobster for his red coat. Now the soldier is called Tommy. The name Thomas is popular in Ireland and in the old army many soldiers were from that country.
A reflective meditation on striving for noble aims. The speaker asks if constant effort toward heroism and truth can be considered vain. It ponders whether steadfast pursuit and fidelity, though unaccompanied by visible reward, elevate a person and affirm meaningful endeavor.
City aims to improve efficiency by installing a wireless system at police headquarters with a 500 mile range and plans to outfit every police station in the near future, creating a citywide wire less communications network.
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