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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1918
Page
2
The notice lists hours and locations for rooms in the Holman Building and features selections urging Liberty and national sacrifice. It includes poems about liberty and a Browning thought for the day, plus announcements of a gym frolic at the YWCA and a Junior Auxiliary meeting. It closes with a wedding notice for Mrs. Elfen Stevens and Herschel Carithers.
Athens residents recall Mr. Carithers a longtime business leader and former bookkeeper who will host friends at his Meigs street home. A tiny pair of patriotic youths led yesterday’s Athens parade, sons of local veterans from the famed Second Division. The Red Cross seeks tin and platinum for the war effort urging collection of tin foil tubes and old pewter items, with Mrs. Mildred Rhodes coordinating conservation efforts and National Red Cross guidance stressing material conservation.
The article outlines a nationwide Earn and Give drive led by the YWCA and allied groups to mobilize women and girls in support of the war effort. It contrasts earning and giving with street soliciting, highlighting age limits for canvassing and inviting groups such as Victory Girls to participate alongside Victory Joys in a service campaign to aid soldiers and allies.
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