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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Oct 25, 1916

Page

7

Great Dominion Shows to headline Georgia State Fair attractions

Macon Georgia October 24 special to the Banner announces the Great Dominion Shows as premier midway attractions at the Georgia State Fair. The company will perform in Macon after engagements in Memphis Birmingham and Atlanta with acts including Essie Fays Society Horse Show Gilmans Illusion Show and Monkey Speedway among others.

Macon Memphis Tenn Birmingham Atlanta Dominion Essie Fay Gilman LaBelle Doc Turner Friscoe Julius Otto Harry Robert Dominion Company Ore

Strand Amusements Offers Mixed Reel Lineup Through Saturday

Wednesday through Saturday programs list Virginia Pearson in Dare Devil Kate and Beatrice Fairfax at Strand Elite editions. Wm S Hart stars in The Dawn Maker with a New Keystone Comedy and Mae Murray in Sweet Kitty Bellaire at Elite. Friday features Owen Moore in The Kiss and Lillian Lorane in Should a Wife Forgive with The Shielding Shadow as first chapter. Saturday presents Charlie Chaplin in The

Virginia Pearson Wm. S. Hart Keystone Mae Murray Owen Moore Elite Lillian Lorane

Wheel of the Law hosts Emily Stevens at Pawnshop

Emily Stevens performs in The Wheel of the Law at a local venue while Elite: Liberty presents acts by L KO and Lond along with Luke Comedy.

Emily Stevens Wheel of the Law Elite Liberty

Special Notice City Taxes Due October 11 to November 1

The last installment of city tax is due from October 11 through November 1, inclusive. Taxpayers missing the deadline by November 1 incur a $1.50 cost on life. G. E. O'Farrell, City Marshal. Choose Your Own Plan.

Fife G. E. O'Farrell John Stuart Mill

Defining an Optimist in a Wolf Hunt

An optimist may be described as a person who believes a wolf will be captured during a big wolf hunt according to the Atchison Globe.

Atchison Globe

Foley Kidney Pills Help Backache Sufferers Say

Chas M Fox of Him rod endorses Foley Kidney Pills claiming relief from backache and other pains. The ad urges sufferers to try the pills, noting they aid middle aged and elderly with backache stiff joints rheumatic pains and urinary troubles and mentions H R Palmer & Sons as sellers.

Foley Chas. M. Fox Himrod, M H. R. Palmer & Sons

Virginia Enacts Mapp Act to Enforce Dry State

Virginia joins prohibition states effective November 1 as the Mapp act bans ardent spirits except by bonded drug stores. About 650 liquor dealers close, while consumers stock up. The law restricts manufacture transport sale and advertising of alcohol, with penalties from fines to prison. The Anti Saloon League led a four year campaign culminating in enactment and a prohibition commissioner appointed.

Associated Press Richmond Virginia Sisterhood of Prohibition Mapp Norfolk Newport ‘News Anti-Saloon League AntiSaloon League General Assembly

Food for Horse and Sheep Costs for Livestock

A historical note explains horse feeding costs based on weight, estimating a healthy horse requires nine times its weight in annual feed. The fragment hints at sheep and other livestock feeding calculations, reflecting farm economics of the era.

Weather Forecast for Atlanta Area and Georgia

Forecast through Wednesday evening calls for fair weather in Athens and nearby areas. Georgiawide conditions remain fair with coastal rain possible, as a large high pressure region keeps temperatures moderately cool. A low pressure system in Manitoba brings warmer readings to Montana and North Dakota, while Wyoming and Colorado stay cold with subfreezing lows.

Georgia Mississippi River Rocky Mountain Illinois Cotton Belt Central Valley Manitoba Montana North Dakota Havre Helena Wyoming Colorado Sheridan Athens Vicinity W. W. Reed

Palmer files for re election as Second Ward alderman

H R Palmer announces candidacy for re election to the office of alderman in the Second ward, subject to the democratic primary, and mentions R T Wright as a man from the First ward.

H. R. Palmer R. T. Wright

Cured Her Children of Colds with Cough Remedy

Mrs. Myron J. Pickard of Memphis New York reports giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to her two children during severe colds and notes it proved the medicine they needed. Obtainable everywhere. Adv.

Chamberlain

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