Noted Public Notices and Political Aims Across Athens
A collection of brief items notes that carriers cannot collect subscriptions, cotton prices stay high, and Wilson supports germ theory with towel changes. It also mentions Judge Speer’s impeachment stance, the Ladies Garden Club exhibit, and Georgia cities’ governance critique. Voter registration urges lines up for elections Saturday, with emphasis on a larger turnout. Diphtheria culture halts state health work, capitol disinfection planned. Building boom and divorce suit highlight local life, while U.S. stance on Huerta Mexico remains firm and forthcoming elections in Mexico unlikely to be recognized.
Study of the Athens Negro Fellowship Aids UGA Research
Under a Phelps-Stokes Fund grant of 12500 dollars the University of Georgia funds yearly graduate work on the negro question. The first Wooster fellowship thesis, about Athens negro industrial habits and labor success, runs to about one hundred pages and will soon be published. The study promises new insights and will enrich the wider body of information on the topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phelps-Stokes Fund
University of Georgia
Jack Woolter
Athens Negra
Get Them To Athens For A Day
Promote Athens by literal goods showing approach. Urges bringing settlers home-makers investors to visit for a day in fall, seeing the city as it is this week or next. Argues mountains cannot move to Mahomet, so a trip scheme must draw desirable people to Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Mahomet
Solemn Court Oath Emphasized In Clarke County Grand Jury
Judge Brand urges citizens and court participants to honor the oath binding all involved in the Clarke County courts. The article highlights the solemn compact with God to act honestly, uphold rights, and judge by truth, duty, and law, urging reflection among readers and professionals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brand
Grand Jury
Clarke County
Supreme Court
This Date in History and Birthdays Highlight 50th Birthday
A collage notes October 16 events from 1758 to 1912 including Noah Webster birth in Connecticut, Leipzig battle start, Westminster fire, ether first used publicly, Harper's Ferry raid, Grant's western command, Milwaukee's incorporation milestone, and Mrs. Jefferson Davis death. It also marks Dr Beverly T Galloway 50th birthday and lists other notable birthdays and public concerns such as grandfather clause debates and the Panama-Pacific Exposition statuary views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah Webster
West Hartford
Conn
New Haven
Leipsic
Westminster
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
John Brown
Harper's Ferry
Grant
Milwaukee
Jefferson Davis
New York City
Natchez
Miss
Felix Diaz
Madera
Mexico
Cars and churches clash in old Athens talk
At a country church gathering elders compare past poverty to modern wealth driven by automobiles. They note seven cars in the yard worth around seven thousand dollars, say a $4000 church could be rebuilt with two and a half autos, and argue autos are luxury while churches and schools suffer for funds.
Parisian Sage Hair Tonic Ad Warns Husbands
An advertisement urges men to treat thinning hair and dandruff with Parisian Sage. It promises rapid dandruff removal and new growth, recommends nightly scalp application, and notes use until thick and abundant. The tonic is touted as scientific and suitable for all ages, with the Girl with Auburn Hair trademark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Social notices and local visits fill Athens page
Personal and social items report dances, club meetings, and a parade of visitors in Athens. The Y W C A Sewing and Cooking Club gathers, Civic Club plans a meeting, and S A E hosts a Friday evening dance. Numerous residents from Atlanta, Comer, Maxeys, Watkinsville, and Cincinnati are noted visiting or traveling, with wedding attendance and upcoming events highlighted.
Santa Fe opens new union station and yards in Wichita
Special from Ber Wichita Kas Oct 15 Santa Fe railroad begins use of the new union station and yards in Wichita marking complete and informal opening of the great terminal system with a cost of over 2 1/2 million dollars Indiana librarians meet Marion Oct 15 The Indiana Library Association opens its annual convention with librarians from across the state gathering for three days of sessions A J Bailey of Gary presided at the opening session Subscriptions should be liberal to the new 100 000 improvement company being organized through the Athens Chamber of Commerce which will aid city upbuilding
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ber
Wichita
Kas
Santa Fe Railroad
Union
Indiana Librarians
Marion
Ind
Indiana Library Association
A. J. Bailey
Gary
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wilson
Emory Speer
Ladies’ Garden Club
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Pankhurst
Wgger
Commission
State Board of Health
State Capitol
Board of Health
Macon
Huerta
United States
B. T. Galloway
Beverly T. Galloway
Millersburg
University of Missouri
University
Galloway
Andrew H. Dunn
Quebec
Walter S. Buckmaster
England
Albert R. Taylor
James Milikin University
Frederick H. Gillett
Masachusetts
United States Supreme Court
South
Popular Mechanics
N. P.M
Stone Mountain
Y. W. C. A. Lyceum
Killarney
Y. W. C. A. Sewing and Cooking Club
East Athens
The
Civic Club
Rudolph Brandt
Dearing Street
S A. E
S. A. E. Fraternity
Pulaski Street
Mrs. C. Berry
Hutchins
City
Floyd Foster
Madison
Margaret Williams
Miss Pearl Williams
Neese
Sterday
Jessie Osborn
Watkinsville
F. R. Howard
Grace Howard
Comer
T. J. Syfan
Kathleen Syfan
Gainesville
Fred Cox
Ethel Cox
Farmington
Fred J. Orr
Atlanta
Birmingham
Mr. “Buz" Blaiock
Richard Johnston
George, D. Thomas
R. T. DuBose
Edgeworth Lamkin
Columbia County
Ruth Weatherly
Conservatory
Gus Brightwell
Bessie Brightwell
Maxeys
Lula Ash
Mamie Arnold of
A. H. Morton
C. B. Harris
Walter C. Ham
Longstreet
Antebons
Queen City
G. Clif Reed
Southern Bell Telephone Company
John A. Cobb
Americus
Lamar Rutherford Lipscomb
Washington, D. C
Vassar Woolley
Spring Road
J. W. Smith
Raleigh, N.C
Blanche Heywood
Chattanooga, Tenn
Dr. Heywood
Heywood
South Lumpkin Street
Elizabeth Shippen
Cincinnati
Ruth Wells
Rszy
Cardus
Amelia Wilson
Alma, Ark
Union Station
Erwbiinn & CO
College Avenue
Y. W. C. A. Athletic Building
Lyceum
Rita
Palmer's Drug Store
Costa’s
Battle Creek
Mich
Athens Railway & Electric Co
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