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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
6
The Athens Daily Banner details mailing rates including 5.00 per year 2.50 for six months 1.25 for three months or 10 cents a week. It explains delivery by carriers and mail options and requests prompt notices to the business office for late or missed deliveries. Remittances may be sent by express post office money order registered letter or cheque.
The Associated Press standard rights statement appears, asserting exclusive republication rights for AP dispatches and local news and reserving rights for special dispatches. The notice emphasizes AP credit for news content and its protected use in the paper.
The State College of Agriculture drives pig clubs among Georgia youths to raise hogs scientifically and cheaply. Records show meat costs lower than Nebraska, with boys expanding production during wartime. The program aims to make Georgia the nation’s leading meat producer and strengthen home economies.
A collage of love quotes from Pope Whittier Byron Shakespeare Coleridge Scott Lamartine Lowell and Beattie references to love’s law blindness and sacred flame. The jumbled phrases show varied tastes and styles without a single narrative.
An editorial argues peace with Germany is unlikely and dangerous. It urges total victory, disarming Germany, returning stolen lands, and paying reparations to Belgium and Serbia, asserting the Kaiser will push no peace terms and that the war must be fought to the end.
A wartime appeal urges Americans to eagerly buy the government six billion dollar liberty bonds. It stresses sacrifice over personal wealth, notes two million more troops to be sent and pledges that Athens has already subscribed about two and a half million dollars, urging a larger present quota.
The speaker declares a single focus over many duties urging collective effort toward victory. Personal pursuits are set aside as parties profits and plans fade while the call to action dominates. The emphasis centers on unity and preparation for an imminent triumph.
A grandmother used Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to darken dull gray hair. The old time recipe, now sold for about 50 cents, claims to restore natural color by morning with simple application using a comb or brush. It emphasizes cosmetic use and disclaims disease treatment.
Weather data notes fair conditions for Atlanta area and the state on Thursday. The report describes a high atmospheric pressure system over the north Atlantic coast bringing northeast winds and cloudiness along the eastern seaboard. Rain and light showers occurred in parts of Florida and around the Great Lakes, with cooler temperatures in the Atlantic states and milder readings in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys reaching 60 degrees or higher as far north as St. Louis, Louisville, and Pittsburgh.
Advertises fast relief for indigestion gas sour stomach and heartburn with a product claim of instant comfort. Mentions belching undigested food and stomach distress with references to headaches.
Consumers are assured that taking a tablet of Pape's Diapepsin ends indigestion and stomach distress at once. The ads tout the tablets as pleasant, harmless, and inexpensive at drug stores.
Mount Vernon Lodge No 22 F and A M will hold a called communication at their hall third floor Max Joseph building on Thursday evening October 3 at 8 30. Work in the M M degree. All qualified brethren invited. By order of W A Capts WL and G Quinn, Sect.
A Boston advertisement touts Eucapline as a mild non poison germicide to sterilize babies noses and throats. Physicians say young children cannot blow their noses leading to catarrh germs spreading to throat ears and lungs. The salve is sold in family jars for a half dollar with directions and is urged for prevention and cure.
Philip Wentworth, a successful young man, contemplates his engagement to Jane while recalling a past village romance with Constance Dare. The pull between his promising country roots and his bustling city career spurs memory and doubt as Jane presses for social life and he longs for thoughtful solitude. He revisits the old Dare garden and encounters Constance as a figure from his past.
A short health blurb urges readers to take Jad Salts to flush and stimulate kidneys when ache or pain appears. It cites jad salts made from grape and lemon acids with lithia, claimed to neutralize urine acids and prevent bladder disorders, endorsing it as harmless and inexpensive.
Special to the Macon paper outlines a ten day Georgia State Fair schedule starting October 20 with daily special events. Highlights include Live stock day County day Children’s day Military and Athletics events Harness races Grounds concerts and Governors day plus many other exhibits. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic is advertised as restoring vitality.
Train timetable for October 6 1918 Eastern Time lists Train No 2 passenger Jeaves Athens at 10 30 a m Train No 12 mixed Jeaves Athens at 7 45 a m Train No 1 passenger arrives Athens at 1 40 a m Train No 11 mixed arrives Athens at 7 15 p m
Elmo Lodge number 40 of the Knights of Pythias meets Mondays at 8 30 p m at Castle Hall Jes ter Building Clayton Street Visiting Knights invited T H Nicker son C C H P Lawrence K of R 8 Williams Lodge 15 I O O F meets Mondays at Odd Fellows Hall Max Joseph Building all brethren invited W P Elrod N G J A Mealor R S Glenn Lodge 75 I O O F meets Tuesdays at Odd Fellows Hall H D Stephens N G J T Galliher R S Mt Vernon Lodge F A M Mt Vernon Lodge 22 F A M meets Thursdays in regular communication at Masonic Hall third floor May Joseph Building Clayton Street T M A Capps W M MO Quinn Sea
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