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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
6
Miscellaneous ads list services and sales including insurance inquiries, loan offers, moving services, rental listings, mineral water, dairy products, and a district agent post. It notes a June 1917 diocesan meeting addendum and a Studebaker sale or trade option embedded among rental and sale notices.
Readers note a simple remedy for coal oil odor in parlor lamps. Place a few small bits of gum camphor into the lamp bowl to completely neutralize the smell and improve the atmosphere.
Martin J. Abney district manager for New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. writes $160 000 in life insurance in the first four days of the week. He urges friends to see him Friday before the window closes to secure liberal policy terms without war clauses.
Crawford Coggin, son of Dr and Mrs Coggin of this city and nephew of Clerk Elmer J Crawford of Clarke superior court, has returned home on furlough from the navy. He has served several years and expresses strong faith in the navy as the United States enters the great war. The Delaware displaces 20000 tons and is 551.5 feet long with ten twelve inch guns.
The landlord persuading his tenants to oppose a fair tax that would fund school improvements faces a moral misstep by depriving tenants of promised benefits. Advertisements for mill properties in Atlanta stress fine school buildings and playgrounds, highlighting the public education angle.
Mr. R F Carbutt of the H L Doherty Company visited the city for a few hours before continuing a tour of towns where Doherty owned city service plants operate Islands Well What of It A newspaper report on a police mob clash noted women among rioters and a rioter biting a policeman The piece questions public opinion and mill owner attitudes toward education for workers children and tenants and urges landlords to support county taxes to fund schools for tenant families The argument compares mill and farming needs for public facilities and educated labor.
Washington article urges preserving fruits and vegetables by saving glass and stoneware containers and sending them to Southern farms. The U S Department of Agriculture along with Southern Railway development service experts promote city consumer and farm producer cooperation to guard against tin can shortages.
The speaker Uncle Eben argues that a man cannot rely solely on money for value, saying only effort and character give true worth. He notes money alone cannot make a person complete or independent.
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