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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1915
Page
4
The column bursts with notices on delivery issues, circus planning, Harvest Festival exhibits, Queen of the Festival contests, and local sermons. It also references Georgia politics, a marriage on skates, and calls for business leaders to attend chamber meetings, all reflecting Athens social life and public concerns.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce under President Flanigen offers a disciplined lecture series for local business people. Prominent speakers from trade, banking, and industry discuss topics from road funding to rural credit, aiming to help Athens grow. Tonight Hon. G Gunby Jordan speaks on Some Lessons of the Hour with all travel costs covered.
A Public Health Service bulletin frames disease prevention as education about bacteria. It stresses cleanliness as the main weapon and links a cleaner environment to longer life, urging public adherence to sanitary practices and responsible living.
Defending the schoolma’am A C Monahan argues that cartoons insulting the schoolroom and college graduates misrepresent education. He says such satire harms potential students by portraying higher education as futile and the teacher as a demon, risking discouraging youths from pursuing college.
A proposed solution to the servant problem from The October American Magazine suggests paying a servant on a partial commission. A 10 percent bonus on monthly savings from provision bills, with housewife oversight, would raise wages from about 16 to 17 dollars in the first month and increase over time. A semiannual wage uplift is tied to six‑month cumulative commissions, creating a schedule from 4.00 to 7.60 dollars weekly over years.
Circus crowds flocked to Athens as Barnum & Bailey performed at Chase Street ball park. Rain slashed crowds yet attendance remained high with trains, crowds, and special excursions. Performances featured new acts, aerial work, animal stunts, and parade pageantry despite weather and a busy police day.
Mrs. W. A. Woodruff of Athens Ga inside the High Shoals church work dies at a private sanitarium at age thirty three Surviving her are her husband W A Woodruff and her parents Mr and Mrs A S Hays The body was taken to Greenburg Bonds chapel and later moved to Houston Ga for funeral and interment.
The ad claims digestion is mainly mechanical and stomach trouble stems from weak muscles. H. R. Palmer & Sons guarantee Vinci a non secret remedy with iron cod liver extractives beef peptone and wine to strengthen the digestion and enrich the blood. If you suffer from stomach trouble try it.
The forecast from Atlanta indicates Wednesday clearing for Athens and vicinity and cloudy conditions with possible local rains across Georgia. The cotton belt shows cloudy rainy weather with moderate rains and only two stations reporting over one inch in the last day. A disturbance in the middle Gulf area keeps temperatures mild with a likely rain tonight and early Wednesday, followed by clearing after noon Wednesday.
Mrs J N Rose of Verona Pa reports Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has served her family for years for colds and coughs. She gave it to her three and a half year old granddaughter during a winter bout of croup and it broke up the attack at once. She has recommended it to many friends and neighbors. For sale by all dealers.
A New York stock exchange seat sold today for seventy two thousand dollars, two thousand dollars higher than the last sale, signaling price rises from earlier months. Also includes an aspirin-like ad for Chamberlain's Tablets claiming relief from indigestion biliousness and headache with a testimonial from Mrs. Belle Miller of Elida Ohio.
A set of political announcements lists candidates for Athens mayor and city aldermen across the second and fourth wards. Names include E H Youngkin, Robert O Arnold, K A Hill, A G Dudley, T B Jago, Harold T Tuck, Vincent Mathews, Frank Hodgson, Albert E Davison, Hugh H Gordon, E K Lumpkin Jr, and B Dunaway. The notices emphasize candidacy, ward focus, and primary filing. The text also contains an unrelated ad copy for Dr Bell's and pine forest imagery.
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