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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1916
Page
2
A Lyceum speaker urges residents to improve their towns through positive conduct. Boost local projects, support neighbors, invest locally, and refrain from knocking others. Be courteous to strangers, back public improvements, and foster a hopeful, communal spirit for lasting growth.
A writer tours the Milledge Avenue area linking Calloway and Brittain lands to a modern Athens expansion. He notes vast land changes, new streets, palatial homes, and portions now part of the State Agricultural College. The city’s growth promises extension toward Princeton and Whitehall.
A writer touring the United States praises Athens for a decade of rapid improvement. Magnificent private homes line avenues once rural, business districts expand, and new churches rise on Prince Avenue amid growing farming nabes.
A regional forest ranger reports wild burros increasing in number from Supal to the Little Colorado mouth, viewing them as a nuisance. The text contemplates land values and farm land sales, mentioning $4,000 to $6,000 and a future growth of Athens.
Athens showcases its pivotal role in the fertilizer industry highlighting acid phosphate, phosphate rock, and sulfuric acid production. The piece traces historic milestones from Peruvian guano to modern plants, notes regional production leaders, and explains how the Southern Fertilizer Association educates farmers through Fertilizer Facts and bulletins to boost productivity.
The article argues that early Prussians diverged from the South German and Teutonic groups. It notes their likely Hunnish or Mongolian origin, while English Dutch Scandinavian and South German shares are described as indisputable. Prussians are described as ethnologically distinct from the Teutonic circle.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. So you will have calm days, drowsy nights and all the good business you have now, and none of the bad.
A compact reflection on how even benevolent individuals may be viewed with doubt about their share of heavenly reward, suggesting moral scrutiny and the tension between virtue and perception.
The Athens article urges extending city limits westward beyond the Normal School toward the Tom Lester area. It highlights 140 acres owned by W S Holman and land held by the Dozier brothers and Mrs. Lamar Cobb as ideal for subdivision. The piece touts elevated ground, wide views, proximity to the Normal School, and tax advantages, urging a land company to develop the property for affluent residential uses.
A fragmentary item discusses Roman lighting and ancient ideas about illumination. The readable text hints at commentary on historical lighting methods and associations with ancient Rome.
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