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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1914
Page
8
Local classifieds list Insurance and real estate notices including a suggestion to split fire insurance with J C Jester and a note that Clarke County Bank pays 4 percent on savings. Also small ads for stamps, oats for sale, furnished room seeks roommate, rental houses on Milledge and Cobb streets, and a stenographer seeking part time work.
An advertisement touts Citrolax as the best remedy for constipation with rapid relief, praising its thorough flushing, no pain or nausea, and a cleansed feeling. Distributed by H.R. Palmer & Sons with the ad urging readers to ask for Citrolax.
Hindus revere the banyan for its age broad canopy and perceived blessing. They plant it near temples and in villages without temples place an image under a banyan for daily morning and evening offerings.
London relief effort by Americans in August and September reports total aid figures. Hoover chaired the committee with Ambassador Page, loans issued from the consulate, and a benevolent fund of about 16 3333 plus 11 983 for banking guarantees. About 135000 drawn from Congress aided roughly 40000 people, with 9200 financed home. Daily operations moved up to 2000 lodged tourists at Victoria station and 1500 plus in lodgings. 3000 register and indexed for friends.
The recorder's court docket shows 59 white and 60 colored male defendants in offenses against municipal law. There were 11 colored females and no white females. Police reports total 130 cases with 109 pleas or verdicts. Fines for the month amounted to 964.99 dollars with past due items bringing in more.
Bill Carey, a Black man living on Chagesit Rest, was arrested on a complaint by neighbors. He reportedly cut or hurt his wife with a sharp object after a quarrel, with the disorder ending as another cutting affair.
New stock arriving daily includes Chita Dinner Ware in open stocks Gold Band dinner ware in three patterns Crystal glass table ware and onyx enameled cooking ware. Also Beaten Biscuit machinery Bread mixers Ocedar mops and polish mop wringers clockware coal items toys and children's wagons velocipedes and tricycles. War in Europe may limit future doll availability so shoppers stock up for holidays.
An agreement in Atlanta redirects the Georgia versus North Carolina football game to Grant Field Tech Flats from Ponce de Leon. The game scheduled for the 17th with Georgia led by Prof. Sapford and Coaches Cunningham and Peacock, traveled through Atlanta en route to Sewanee for tomorrow’s Tigers contest.
Mr. Castleberry, business manager for Annette Kellermann in Neptune's Daughter, visits the city arranging engagement with Manager Flynn for Miss Kellermann at the Colonial theater on Friday and Saturday October 16 and 17.
City may lease the Hugh Rowe Park building now used by Sheriff Walter E Jackson to Campbell Jackson, likely at year start or earlier. Sheriff to move out soon and Jackson has applied if terms fit. Board of Education not expected to use the building before year end. Clarke County lender notes borrower via email.
Five tiger cases today appear on the docket at police headquarters. Four were carried over from early week and late last week. Policeman Cooper, out with lumbago for several days, worked three to keep his hand in while off duty. One case turned yesterday, a negro on Foundry street named Geo. Golstein.
The city finance committee and the city attorney, after meeting with the Postal Telegraph Company manager and reviewing intrastate business data, cut the special license tax from 100 to 50 for the Postal Telegraph and from 125 to 100 for Western Union. The council ratified the agreement, deeming the settlement fair given business volume and higher increases in other city taxes this year.
A reader asks a lawyer whether they can sue a woman for slander even if the woman proves what she said about the reader did not say. The question centers on defamation liability and evidentiary standards.
President Harrison of the Southern Railway notes a silver lining for cotton and cottonseed markets. With Europe’s demand shrinking due to war, prices for cottonseed meal and hulls fall, offering Southern farmers a chance to profit by feeding cattle and dairy cows while boosting manure supply and farm productivity. He urges focusing on regional livestock instead of shipping cattle out of the Cotton Belt.
Berlin reports describe First Lieutenant Count Wedel leading twelve Uhlans from Bouillon toward Sedan on August 25. They entered the city under fire from French infantry, routed a patrol, and found Sedan largely deserted with residents in panic. Wedel declared Sedan free of organized enemy forces aside from a few stragglers.
A man rises just after the day breaks, yet the question remains if that moment grants him a whole day ahead. The inquiry turns on perception of time and the boundary between dawn and full daylight.
The article states that so called Chinese rice paper is produced from the pith of a Formosa tree, clarifying the material source rather than true rice paper. It notes the claim of Chinese origin while identifying the actual plant basis used in production.
Major von Hoefer, acting chief of the Austro Hungarian general staff, refutes English reports of mutinies among Bohemian regiments and asserts all troops from Germans to Romanians fight with equal courage and loyalty in every front from Russo Galician to the Balkan theater.
The text notes shops used painted marks or signs to distinguish themselves, giving the streets a lively and grotesque appearance.
The statistics claim Newfoundland has an exceptionally crimeless year with no murders manslaughter for the last fiscal year and no serious crimes reported in a population around 200 000.
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