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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1921
Page
2
An advertisement urges women to dye worn dresses coats and draperies using Diamond Dyes. It promises simple instructions and no streaking or fading. The copy specifies choosing dye type for wool silk linen cotton or mixed fabrics and notes a druggist can help with material color compatibility.
A fragment discusses blood color from red cells and how overwork illness or strain weakens blood, reducing red cell counts and causing fatigue. It notes nutrition and physical activity affect vigor, appetite, sleep, and sex drive, and hints at remedies and vitality themes from a historical medical view.
Advertisement copy touts Solvax as a quick relief for aches and pains caused by sick kidneys, with a bold claim of swift benefit and a 50 cent price point. The text frames the product as sold and guaranteed by druggists.
In Oyster Bay a commemorative event honors Theodore Roosevelt with references to his Rough Rider era. A flag draped stage and a campaign address are depicted as crowds travel from the cemetery toward Campleton, honoring soldiers and the legacy of service in France.
A wartime memory sketches Roosevelt’s funeral era, detailing Italian mourners at a Baltimore plot, the sea hemmed cove, and a soldierly figure laid beneath a conical grave mound. The piece recalls public life, past integrity, and a call to be steadfast. Thousands of visitors, scouts, and veterans are listed as attenders from New York and New Jersey in a solemn ceremony.
A detailed account from Athens outlines how prohibition fuels a widespread bootlegging network. It notes Detroit as a major center with rings, corruption at the top, and small runners arrested for being less seasoned. Enforcers face disappearing evidence, easy bond payouts, and huge seizures that vanish, while liquor travelers cross from Canada by boat and from the Bahamas by vessel, delivering liquor to homes and offices nationwide.
Large-scale liquor thefts drained warehouses with 4,501,176 gallons lost in a year due to leakage and miscounts. Watchmen earn meager pay while enforcement agents face corruption and political pressure. A bootlegger claims 30,000 profit in 13 months, with women increasingly active in the rum trade and Panama's islands supplying much of the contraband to Miami and Savannah ports.
McKee Drug Co advertises Hyomet as a fast acting cold remedy that goes to the spot to kill germs, promising relief in six hours and describing it as a money brick.
Ruth Agnes Abeling speculates on a future where men rule and dresses become practical. Letters from Mrs. Leon Stern and Mabel Washburn discuss women in work and modest, functional attire over fashionable reform. They argue women should value service and capability, not merely appearance, in shaping society.
Mrs C 1B Hippie of Fall River argues against women wearing mannish garments and copying male attire. She emphasizes motherhood and staying within traditional womanly roles while acknowledging certain sports or occupations may require specific cuts.
Tucker Guinn, a leading Athens businessman, joins BE and Sporting Goods Co as partner and will head the new modern showroom on Washington and Lumpkin streets. The firm plans auto accessories tires oils and related services at the new building and continues operations at College and Broad and Prince avenues with Walter Lanter and Arthur Kitle in charge respectively. The Sporting Goods Co will operate all stores under one name with a vulcanizing plant and tire retreading as specialties.
Chronic constipation linked to many diseases is said to stem from bile and intestinal secretion insufficiency. A pleasant salt blend, Jacobs Liver Salt, allegedly increases bile flow and intestinal secretions, flushing the tract. Sold at drug stores with a free simple trial offered by Jacobs Pharmacy, Atlanta, GA.
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