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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1914
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner outlines delivery rates and payment methods, instructs subscribers to report delivery issues, and warns carriers not to collect subscriptions. It laments war taxation and cites World Series commentary, plus local growth news including a new road to Ila funded by farmers and merchants.
The article argues that federal aid is unlikely and that Southern farmers must rely on themselves. It outlines how bankers, merchants, and farmers must cooperate to ease the distress, with Athens merchants offering to buy cotton at one cent above market to settle debts. It notes President Wilson’s reluctance to direct loan relief and calls for mutual concessions amid an emergency.
Boston pennant winners topple Philadelphia American league champions 7 to 1 in the first World Series game. Gowdy stars with a double a triple and a single in three trips. Moranville and McInnis contribute as Cleveland’s Moran and others fail to stop Boston’s bats.
Atlanta shut down for the opening game in Philadelphia as Braves fans cheered George Stallings while Red Smith suffered a broken leg. Mrs Smith in Boston rushed to her husband after learning the news and joined him at the hospital by private phone.
The North Carolina Christian Advocate argues for the U S as a leader in world education amid European war. It notes American universities now rival abroad, urges strengthening older institutions and establishing new ones to seize the opportunity.
French medical officers and field hospital personnel taken by Germans near the Upper Vosges were handed to Swiss authorities at Leopoldshoehe on August 30 and sent to Belfort via Basle. A Lausanne dispatch claimed the Germans seized supplies, but a Swiss report says officers kept their decorations and money, and bought champagne in Basle, while not debarking their men.
Chicago and New York price action mixed as wheat slipped at open then rose above prior levels on bull cash receipts. export demand cooled later, closing nervous. Corn opened flat to down and drifted lower, oats steady. Spot cotton in Atlanta and New Orleans quoted steady to quiet with Liverpool and Galveston showing middling around 7 to 7.5 cents. Cotton Oil market notes include local patient buyers and a removal of rheumatic pain claims for Foley Kidney Pills.
Letters from Mrs J F Johnson of Princeton Illinois and a nurse Mrs Horace Newman of Poland New York praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles and change of life advising others to use it and seek confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
Local lodge listings show Keystone Chapter Royal Arch Masons Mt. Vernon Lodge F and A M Williams Lodge I O O F Glenn Lodge St Elmo Knights of Pythias Geo Davis Camp W O W Athens B P O E Classic City Council U C T and a Sloan's Liniment advertisement with meeting nights, locations, and contact details.
A dated 1914 Eastern Time timetable lists trains No. 50 and No. 64 departing at 6 45 a m and other numbered services. It records arrivals for No. 51 and No. 68 at 1 20 p m and mentions daily operation except Sunday with partial notes and noisy OCR.
Announcement of candidates seeking alderman seats in four wards. R T Wright and H R Palmer announce for ward one and two respectively, with J Z Hord R O Arnold for ward three, and J A Pitner and J F Tibbetts for ward four pending Democratic primary action.
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