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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
2
A meditation on inner artistry and divine influence urges all to seek perfect form without overstraining. It critiques forcing women into relentless competition and argues for balanced education, leisure, and homemaking as honorable paths for women.
The note shows a Saturday birthday party at the Wright home with decorations in ferns and red and green. Attendees include Effie Teat, Ezzie Bradley, Golden Hardeman, Florence Payne, and many others, with a full dining room and hall display and refreshments served.
Women suffering from any form of female ills are urged to communicate privately to a woman. A confidential correspondence extends over years with consented letters. The Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co offers advice and a free 80 page Text Book by mail from Lynn Massachusetts.
Local society items list visits and guests in Athens and Comer. Households hosting include Mrs E C Branson and families, with travelers from Atlanta Commerce West Point and Elberton visiting or returning home. Clergy and church groups attend Presbytery and meet in Comer while others travel to Brusels and Atlanta.
Club forms to start a circulating library aiming to become the city library. All can help through active membership or cooperation. A full movement report with officers and charter members will be published soon. Miss Corinne Gerdine hosts a five o'clock tea for Miss Willie Pound, inviting only the unmarried. Gossip notes several upcoming weddings and visits in Athens Georgia with dates and hosts.
The Georgia Baptist state mission board projects 75 000 for the year and reports great growth with new fields churches and many baptisms. By April 30 local churches contributed 47 000 to Home and Foreign Missions while the board faces nearly 20 000 debt and urges liberal offerings in October and November. Dr J J Berniett is listed as contact.
A 14 year old boy avoided a serious leg injury after all remedies failed. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured burns boils skin eruptions and piles. Sold by W. J. Smith & Bros H. R. Palmer & Sons.
Atlanta, Oct. 2. The Rev. Ferdin and Ruge of St Philips Cathedral, now transferred to Cedartown, issues an apology on a card about the ankles of Peachtree Street girls. He also confesses to reading illustrated French papers, implying interest in ankles and feminine garb.
Harrisburg October 2. A meeting of third class cities and boroughs discussed the advantages of the commission form of government. A. M. Fuller, president of Allied Civic Bodies, presided and spoke on Efficiency in City Government.
In Atlanta on October 2, interest in woman suffrage faded after earlier stirrings. Militant demonstrations and library meetings yielded little local support as women return to bridge, charity work, and other pursuits, suggesting Georgia moved away from the movement.
The Fire Underwriters Association of the Northwest opens its forty third annual meeting in Chicago at the Hotel La Salle. Alfred B. Duncan of Philadelphia presents the annual address on Present-Day Underwriting. Afternoon papers by B. F. Burwell Geo Bailey and Eugene Warren cover fire insurance topics. sessions continue to tomorrow.
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