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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
4
This column notes the growing Buy-a-Bolt movement as campaign funds target retiring five million bales of cotton, with St Louis firms pledging $100,000 each. It also praises cotton goods, urges savings in cotton products, and discusses trade shifts with Europe and Latin America in the wartime era.
A five year old visitor writes from the big desk and asks how to spell Mrs. that ain’t married in an amusing moment captured by the Chicago Tribune.
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A Chicago Herald led plan urges American children to donate toys and gifts to European orphans via a ship loaded with holiday goods. About twenty newspapers back the effort with a Sunday school in Athens, Georgia joining early to participate in this charitable mission ahead of Christmas.
Reports show ongoing U S commerce with France England Germany and other nations. Orders include 500000 socks weekly 1000000 rolls of gauze and 300000 yards cotton duck for export. Packard and Cleveland firms ship hundreds of military trucks to France. bodies to be made in the U S.
The general election on November 3 will feature a lengthy ticket from U S Senator to coroner. Voters face nine constitutional amendments including creating counties Candler Barrow Evans Bacon and changes to county officer terms salaries abolition of county treasurer offices and extending assembly terms. The Savannah justice court system also faces overhaul proposals.
An aged monarch of Roumania dies after choosing to honor his pledge to peace with Germany. The piece questions whether ancestral virtue or political necessity guided his decision as he faced revolution and public pressure.
A rambling reflective meditation contrasts honor and entanglement with the Holenzollern past and the need for forgiveness. It invokes a distant Belgium and a hypothetical monument bearing the line He also was a Hohenzollern nevertheless he kept his word, while a parable about prayer and a giant of Unforgiveness underscores moral vigilance.
An editorial urges a broader Buy a Bolt of Finished Cotton Goods plan aimed at boosting cotton demand. Eastern women clubs and noted figures push wearing cotton, promising cheaper wardrobes and sustained price support for cotton growers and mills.
The reviewer endorses The Clean Heart by A. S. Hutchinson, noting its unfolding plan and moral journey of a man seeking a clean heart with moments of striking truth and art. Also reviewed is Samuel Hopkins Adams’ The Clarion, praised as a vivid, civic minded novel exposing journalism and business ties, with a hopeful, reformist tone.
A short ad touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for severe colds. Mrs. A B Sargent of Peru Indiana endorses the product as valuable and worth its weight in gold. It claims years of trusted use and is available from all dealers.
Governor Slaton proclaims a proposed state constitutional amendment submitted for ratification at the November 3 1914 general election. The amendment would create additional pay from Bibb County to the Superior Court judge, totaling 5000 dollars per year with state salaries.
An elderly patient recounts severe grippe and pneumonia followed by lasting lung trouble. After using Eckman’s Alterative prescribed by a friend, symptoms improved and eventual recovery occurred, with other testimonials and a booklet available from the Eckman Laboratory in Philadelphia.
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