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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1916
Page
8
Advertisements list items for sale and services with local addresses and phone numbers. It includes fire insurance pitches, farm and city loans, car sales like a 1917 Chevrolet Roadster, real estate leases, peach trees and pecan nursery stock, paper shell pecan orders, and a note on a cooking oil claim. The ads reference Athens and nearby locales with several names and contact points.
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings with compounding on January 1 and July 1. Other notices include sales of hot blast heaters, furniture, and a three room rental on Prince Ave. plus requests for a Ford car and supplies from Klein & Martin Co.
New York October 9 The Associated Press traffic department completed an unprecedented telegraphic feat. One operator at the Braves field dictated the World Series story to 300 AP offices, delivering tick for tick reports from coast to coast. The relay covered over 5,000 additional miles of leased wire.
After the night service Evangelist Cross led singing at three services and preached three sermons at the Christian church. He stressed that God cannot forgive without forgiveness and that prayer is hindered by sin in the heart. The meeting included officers from the church Sunday school and Christian Endeavor Society.
Messrs Jerre and Mike Bely expert coat-makers from a Baltimore establishment have moved to Athens and joined Hi and McMahan in their tailoring and manufacturing department. They specialize in coats and will enhance Athens-made men’s goods with finished artistic work. The piece ends with The End of the World Will Come What Plans Have You Made for It.
The Men’s League, a interdenominational religious group, resumes Friday night services at the Tabernacle with Dr. L. H. Crowe as president, Dr. J. L. Pendley as vice president, Prof. John B. Vaughan as organist and chorister, and A. J. Patterson as secretary. The first fall meeting, led by Thomas C. Moore, is tonight and all city residents of various faiths are invited.
Pettijohn Breakfast Food varieties Buckwheat Gra ham and flap Jack flour are advertised at Wliatamson's with emphasis on breakfast products and grocery options.
Forty six faculty members gathered at Peabody Hall for an informal social aimed at better acquainting new members with veterans. Prof Joseph B Stewart chaired the event as the faculty discussed campus life and social matters. A committee was named to form a wives club with plans for November meetings and a subsequent faculty gathering and banquet. An oyster supper concluded the evening.
The city union of Baraca and Philathea classes from churches of various denominations will hold a regular meeting this evening at First Baptist Church at 8 o clock. An interesting program has been arranged and all members are urged to attend.
At West End Baptist church Rev J A Bell and Dr H Buchholz lead a series of special services. The sermons aim to revive interest and convert sinners while reinvigorating inactive members. Services are daily at 8:30 pm and 7:00 pm.
One dollar was contributed yesterday for the Wilson campaign fund by Mr. Baxter Henry, bringing the total raised, with previously acknowledged sums, to 392.00 dollars in the Banner.
W F Richardson, president of the General Convention of the Churches of Christ, opens the fourth annual meeting in Des Moines on October 9. He cites division and waste as church reproaches, urges convocation for reform, and advocates missionary society unity to fulfill church duties while urging national unity and assimilation of a polyglot population.
Rev. Troy Beatty rector of Emmanuel Church Athens and H. Nickerson senior warden left yesterday for St Louis to attend the general convention the highest organized body of the church convening there tomorrow. The convention governs the church and meets once in three years. They will be away for several days.
The Department of Agriculture's October crop report shows declining yields in most crops except corn, flax, rice, and kaffir. Wheat is estimated at 609,067,000 bushels while corn rises to 2,717,992,000 bushels but remains below last year. potatoes will be the smallest since 1911 and tobacco is forecast to set a new record.
Mr. P B Crow is now with Mr Dave Dailey on Broad street where he will be glad to meet friends Rev and Mrs C Jarrell arrived in the city last night and spent the night with Rev and Mrs S P Wiggins at the parsonage they will leave this afternoon
Easier to stop now than later. Coughs worsen the longer they last. Fo ley's Honey and Tar stops tickling in throat, soothes irritation, clears congested passages, and provides relief. Palmer's Sons. ads indicate advertising wants.
The court will not hold tomorrow due to circus crowds and disruption, while the city council plans a 6:30 p m adjourned meeting to keep proceedings legal. News notes mention Joe H Lumpkin’s return from appendicitis and Dr J L Pendley family visits Flowery Branch Gainesville and Forsyth county.
A garbled clipping cites gasoline uses from powering livestock to farm work and lighting. It also presents a misquoted Daily Thought about pleasure, wealth, and virtue, with fragmented phrases about rich men and poverty.
The piece argues that the man who keeps kicking for old times lacks standing similar to a stubborn horse clinging to outdated habits. It frames the subject as resisting change and clinging to tradition in a humorous, pointed tone.
A fragmented quote urges a person to measure progress not against the few above but against the crowd below. Samuel Johnson’s echo of self-improvement through humble comparison appears amidst garbled text.
Fragmented OCR like text hints at a study of happiness linked to imagination and position. It mentions palmi x inde jenote impulsive and song hands as symbols of detail. The readable content suggests a psychology or linguistics note on emotion and perception patterns.
A fragmented OCR item references an old Japanese prophecy and a judge’s remark about a man and his daughter. The readable text includes coarse captions about women chasing new vods and a hostile exchange. It remains unclear and lacks cohesive context.
The text hints at a reflective mood about home and travel with a line about going away for a time and returning homesick. It reads like a fragment from a column or essay in a historical page. The source is fragmented and lacks clear names or dates.
A fragment notes a tarantula bred in Mexico that grows to six or seven inches, causing concern for travelers. The brief hints at danger from the large spider and its regional origin.
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