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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1915
Page
4
The Athens Banner outlines subscription rates and delivery notes for local readers. It notes growing activity in Athens schools and colleges as the new term begins, along with rising business, church attendance, and plans for First of October festivities, while mentioning wartime updates.
The YWCA in Athens hosts a banquet for several hundred, showcasing a robust, growing institution with an ample, well equipped plant. The article praises its ongoing expansion and impact, noting training, recreation, social life, aid to the sick, and guidance by officers and supporters.
Beverly Harris of National City Bank of New York reports on improving business conditions in the South and Southwest. He predicts a new era of prosperity driven by better farming, diversified crops, improved marketing, and stronger credit, with rising population and wealth over the next decade.
Describes the French town of Bailleul near the front as war’s harvest, with ambulances and wounded soldiers in motion. The narrator recalls blood stained boots, stretchers as drawers, and the grim scene of casualties arriving from the front in motor ambulances.
A St. James Missouri writer from the St. James News urges Foley’s Honey and Tar for a severe lung cold warning of pneumonia. The ad claims immediate relief and praises the cough and lung medicine as a healing soothing remedy endorsed by thousands of hay fever and asthma sufferers.
A Madison attorney asked the U S commissioner here for naturalization blanks for Tony Terressi. The Italian government drafts men for the army and Terressi fears conscription. He has lived in the United States for years and wishes to become naturalized quickly.
Mr. Arthur Tillinghast, a Georgia law school graduate, has returned from a business trip in Tennessee and Kentucky and will be permanently located in Athens. He maintains offices in the Southern Mutual Building, as for the past year.
The friends of Mr Walter E Johnson of Michaels are glad to know he is resting well after a successful appendicitis operation Sunday at St Marys Hospital. He is doing nicely.
The Colonial will stage A Pair of Sixes on Friday evening featuring Coddles, a new and original comic character. The angular quaint housemaid inflames Boggs as he poses as a butler in his partner's home, a hit first praised in New York papers.
A vintage advertisement urges youths to prepare for business careers at Athens Business College. It touts a first class literary teacher, math knowledge, and job prospects, led by Prof. S. P. Orr and Mr. Carter. The message stresses urgency to enroll now at 133% Clayton St, May, with assurances of satisfaction and a good paying position.
A tale of Julia Page rising from poverty in San Francisco through determination and love. The story centers on her struggle for a better life, her choice between passion and truth, and her devotion to Dr. Studdiford. It glowingly praises the author’s craftsmanship and the novel’s humane themes.
In the four regular classes of the University of Georgia School of Commerce 164 students enrolled. An additional 40 joined the special courses in statistics and special lines, bringing total enrollment to 204. The program aims to train young men in business administration and industrial organization for broader state development.
Old Man Good Geo W Clough of Prentiss Mississippi, age seventy seven, reports Foley Kidney Pills relieved his long kidney trouble after trying many remedies. He warns no one should neglect kidney symptoms and credits the product from H R Palmer and Sons.
A set of notices announces candidacies for mayor and aldermen in Athens across several wards. Names include E H Youngkin, A G Dudley, T Be Jago, Harold Tuck, Vincent Mathews, Albert E Davison, Hugh H Gordon, and E K Lumpkin Jr, all subject to the Democratic primary. An evening banquet at the YWCA marks a notable local event.
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