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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1917
Page
21
Advertisements offer insurance plans, loan services, automobile rentals, and farm financing from local firms. Notices include lost items, criminal records, and sales, with several requests for returns to Banner Office and local addresses in Athens Ga. Readings mention specific names such as Lipscomb, J De Jester, Green & Michael, Weatherly, and Arnold & Abney, plus items like a Ford roadster and Buick car for sale or rent.
Sixty two students, including Will Moore Crane Jr and Flora Franklin, graduate from Athens High School. Dr. Ashley Jones of Augusta delivers the address, praising liberty tied to responsibility and the fight for human freedom.
The high school grounds will glow with 655 lanterns crafted by boys in the manual arts department. An electric sign over the door mirrors the A H 8 pin. Girls in domestic science outfits will serve refreshments they made. The dainty dresses reflect their needlework skills. The play Tomorrow night in the High School Auditorium titled A Scrap of Paper.
Washington May 29 The Italian Commission in the United States says supplies of all kinds are needed not an army Italy has the longest front yet is not asking for help but wants to keep their army in the field To meet Europe’s needs the farms must be stocked with labor and conscription of farm labor may be needed this season Citizens are urged to grow gardens and eat what they can Indigestion remedies are advertised amid the advice.
District Court in the Northern District orders a hearing on all petitions for discharge set for June 23, 1917 at ten in the morning in the United States District Court room in Atlanta Georgia. Creditors and others in interest must appear and show cause why the bankrupt should not be discharged.
A terse, unclear note describes a dog seeming rabid yet references a tobacco chewer and a borrowed pine, presenting mixed, nonspecific details without a clear event or outcome. The item reads like a stray fragment from a local column or street note.
Georgia and Clarke County prepare for the June fifth selective service registration. The list covers 216th to 149th districts with chiefs and registrars, plus rural precincts and supernumerary volunteers, detailing assigned roles for University of Georgia and local volunteers.
A long unreadable fragment lists numerous individuals including Jno Dorsey Elliott Hodgson Bickers Goodwin Ray Richards Price Peeples Buchanan Waiter Hall Flanagan Childs Smith Watson Weet Thomas Cornett Buller Capps Griggs Sledge Cobb Mitchell Wright and Bans for a local notice.
The article notes highly variable tides on the Australian coast where ships canland at piers, while the Bay of Fundy experiences spring tides reaching 60 to 70 feet in height, illustrating extreme tidal ranges.
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