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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1921
Page
8
Society note reports Mre H B Haywood and children spending the week in Chattanooga. A sensational ad discusses weak, overworked blood causing nerves to fray and appetite to lag. It promotes Gude’s Pepto Mangan as a tonic to restore red corpuscles and vitality.
The item records a string of family and public notices. Congressman C H Brand is slowly improving but confined to bed. Mrs Bolling Bennett will be with her father in Atlanta then return. Lola Johnson departs for Philadelphia for nurse association duties. Mr and Mrs R L Meister announce the birth of a son Robert Meister Jr at General Hospital on Oct 23. Several other health updates and social visits are noted.
Amusements section previews The Wild Goose at the Palace theater on Tuesday with a Fashion Show of 36 fall models by society girls. The film tells of Manners and wife amid a dramatic denouement, with Mary MacLaren and Holmes E Herbert in lead roles and strong support from Dorothy Benard Joseph Smiley and Norman Kerry. Also at the Elite Tom Mix in After Your Own Heart Monday and Tuesday with a Harold Lloyd comedy.
L. L. Brinkley of the Washington Solis Bureau has been named successor to A. H. Mufe signed as soil expert for the College of Agriculture and will assume duties in Athens soon. He is a recognized expert, previously with the soils bureau, and will lead chemical analyses of soils from Richmond and Burke counties. Local college staff M. W. Lowry, W. O. Collins, and Murray Soule will collect samples in these counties for analysis.
Quit tobacco with No-To-Bac tablets claimed to curb cravings and break the habit. The ad promises full recovery from tobacco cravings and a money-back refund via the druggist if ineffective.
A Beaboard Air Line street car No 38 and a large automobile collided at the Thomas and Jackson streets corner Monday around 8 30 am as the street car turned toward the railway station. The car’s left fenders were badly bent but the driver escaped injury. The crash was blamed on the street car brakes failing after the auto stalled on the tracks.
An advertisement promotes a 16 cent box of "Cascarets" promising a thorough liver cleanse overnight with no griping or inconvenience. The copy is fragmented but clearly markets a laxative product aimed at digestion and bowel health.
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