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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
8
Commerce public school reports a record attendance early in the session and expects over 600 students before Christmas holidays. Superintendent H B Carreker and his teaching staff are credited for the strong showing, with rising popularity noted locally.
The Thalians dramatic club of the University chose ten men at a Tuesday evening tryout in Phi Kappa hall. Selected are Austin Dean Roy Jones J B Johnson Freeman Jelks Chas Anderson T J Sasser Briggs Carson G G Finch O W Chandler and E S Baldwin Jr. They join returning Kalijans to form the nucleus for year round dramatic offerings including a Homecoming play on November 4 during the Georgia Virginia game. G T Conyers presides Jimmie Fagan manages H Kassowitz is advertising manager. A later women tryout at Peabody Hall will select University Co-eds for the female cast.
A new National Picture titled Who am I will play at the Strand Friday. The film follows a young woman seeking her parents and uncovering that her father was a professional gambler. She enters a world of gambling debts and danger, then finds a path to happiness under Henry Kolker's direction with stars Claire Anderson Niles Welch.
Local grocer notes fresh produce including turnips salad carrots and onions with oysters fresh corn and citrus. Fleming Oliver listed with phone numbers 1046 and 1047 offering these items. Skelton Brothers provide fresh rolls daily.
Governor Thomas W. Hardwick, visiting Athens, says his goal is to place the University of Georgia on par with other leading American universities. He urges replacing the ad valorem tax with a state income tax and cites Georgia tax figures and wealth concentrations to argue for tax reform. He also hopes to attend the Georgia Harvard game in Cambridge if scheduling allows.
In Spartanburg North Carolina a light frost touched the area Wednesday morning but caused no material damage. The coldest reading on Tuesday night dropped to 38 degrees. Also notes dried orange peel as an effective moth preventive with no odor.
Sermon at Young Harris on Second Corinthians 5:14 argues that the love of Christ constrains believers to zealous, self denying Christian work. It contrasts worldly amotives with Christ like compassion, urging mission work, helping the needy, and spreading the gospel through self sacrifice and unity with Christ’s mind.
Chairman of Hoover Engineers’ Committee on Elimination of Industrial Waste notes multiple factors behind unemployment. He cites postwar copper mine shutdowns after wartime production, Europe’s delayed demand, and domestic slumps. He warns industry remains disorganized and aims for stabilization to flatten peaks and valleys in production and employment.
A kitchen tip suggests swapping pineapple juice for half the vinegar when making French dressing to alter the flavor. The note promises a noticeable difference and encourages readers to try the modification.
If very acid fruits such as cranberries currants and the like are cooked until nearly finished and then sweetened they will not require so much sugar.
The text urges coordinating efforts to restore normal conditions and cites Mr. Hoover calling for full monthly statistics on the status of every industry. It argues that such data, if possible, should be gathered without contravening the Sherman Anti-trust Act to aid recovery.
A fragmented text fragment discusses increasing cooperation among wealthy individuals and firms to ensure smooth operation of industry, avoiding fits and starts. The note mentions tomorrow and William Fellowey Morgan, president of the Me Association of New York, but the sentence is incomplete and unclear.
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