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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
4
The Athens Banner urges careful driving and pedestrian caution in traffic. It emphasizes pedestrians and drivers should cross streets and turn corners with extreme care and that haste should be avoided to protect lives.
A long discussion warns cotton farmers not to rush sales as prices are expected to rise to forty to fifty cents per pound with the sun. It cites crop projections of 11 to 17 million bales, critiques World Cotton Conference predictions, and urges planters to store cotton while seeking diversified crops to protect against market manipulation and maintain food supplies.
City officials vow systematic enforcement to curb deadly driving patterns. Drivers face stricter penalties, higher fines, and stepped up patrols to protect pedestrians amid rising auto fatalities.
A jumble of sample questions covering caste, Thermopylae, Bulwer-Lytton, Cooper, speedometers, chiropractors, mythic monsters, duce, and Waterloo. Includes items on the Lion of Lucerne, golf, pitty, Sinbad, Smithsonian, and Helen of Troy with stray garbled letters.
A fragment of quotation and commentary critiques lofty ambitions and venality in leadership. The speaker contrasts ancient Latin phrasing with modern views on office, noting how pride and aspirations for status resemble the past.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a crime or accident scene with unclear names and roles. Readable elements mention a life taken and a possible hospital or place of incident. Details are too garbled to identify involved persons or organizations with certainty.
Atlanta public schools chief W F Dykes plans transfers of students from crowded campuses to nearby vacant schools to ease the worst classroom congestion in history. The program aims to balance enrollment by moving many pupils to less crowded facilities.
The piece stresses unselfishness as Christ’s keynote and warns that control by the devil leads to hatred. It urges genuine faith over talk, personal example over words, and steady faithfulness before greater duties. The message centers on prayer, meditation, and balancing attachment to worldly power with devotion to Christ.
A mixed reader letter column offers casual guidance on weight expectations, hair curlers, and nose massage, with further queries about marriages of Hollywood figures and general etiquette. Answers mix health tips with opinion, noting ideal weight ranges and cautioning about risky practices.
Special to The Baptier reports in Atlanta during September on fashionable seminary students who formed riding clubs. They bought riding breeches and derbies, visited a village stable, tried horses believed gentle, but the ponies balked at riders astride. The outing ended with no injuries, and the ladies retreated from campus without incident.
The ad touts GHOVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC as strengthening the body against summer heat. It claims to purify and enrich the system, with readers urged to feel increased vigor and invigoration after use.
Advertises a blood purifier as a treatment for rheumatism urging early action. Promotes a mail order adviser at 280 Switvatory AUlaint with claims of curing through eliminating impurities from blood. Contains garbled text and dubious medical claims typical of old ads.
In Atlanta a business leader voices the why of safety urging firm safeguards for workers. The Georgia Railway and Power Company runs a centralized safety program with a safety director, committees, weekly bulletins, and regular meetings to keep every employee focused on preventing accidents.
Colonel William B. Greeley predicts Alaska Tongass National Forest could supply 1.6 million tons of paper annually in a long term plan. He urges on the ground management of Alaska resources and warns against full transfer to local commissions.
Atlanta readers are warned of a swindler selling false pure apple vinegar at $3 a gallon. The scheme involved offering a sample and a “wink” to convince buyers, who later discovered the product was cheap vinegar worth about 40 cents a quart.
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