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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
8
Advertisements appear in these columns with a technical address care The Banner. The personal address is not provided. ads are treated as confidential. Listings include insurance, real estate, rentals, exchanges, and notices with contact names and phones where given.
The notice list mentions Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest on deposits with midyear compounding, plus ads for Spirella Corsets, a French and German lessons service, milking cows, lost Adelphian pin, and carpet cleaning by Bates Brothers. Returns promised for lost item and contact details provided.
The American Sunday School Union reports 120000+ Sunday schools 500000 teachers and 5 million scholars and plans centennial events. It issued pamphlets on its history and rural pioneering experiences and will mail them on request. Headquarters are 1816 Chestnut Street Philadelphia.
Marguerite Clark appears at the Strand in Molly Make Believe with special score by Dr. Campbell and a tenth chapter of Grip of Evil shown today. At the Elite, Jesse Lasky's The Honorable Friend stars Essie Hayakawa with Tsuri Aoki and a notable supporting cast in a Japanese in America tale.
The Gregorys wowed the Colonial audience with a top notch vaudeville program. Kafka and Sherman impressed with wire work, Cassiday and Langdon dazzled in the hop joint tableau, and King Faul’s painting impressed all. A matinee at 3:30 and an evening show at 8:30 were announced.
President Wilson and Assistant Secretary of Commerce Sweet will hold a conference in Long Branch on September 21 to discuss political conditions in Michigan and neighboring states. A series of talks with state leaders will follow, and a business delegation will visit Shadow Lawn on Sunday.
New London Conn Sept 21 renewed Villa activity is likely to delay the American Mexican commission in reaching a border agreement. Still the commissioners express confidence they can solve the issue affecting US Mexico relations. Today they discussed general conditions in Mexico as Mexicans await official reports on Villa's attack on Chihuahua.
Gwinnett County tax rate fixed at $1.00 per hundred, double the state rate of fifty cents. The county rate and fee details follow, contrasting with Clarke County's lower assessment.
National League results show New York 4 def Chicago 0 Brooklyn 6 over St Louis 3 Philadelphia 3 tied Cincinnati 6 Pittsburgh 8 over Boston 4. American League games include St Louis 4 New York 5 Cleveland 3 Washington 2 in 13 innings Detroit 2 Boston 10 Chicago 0 Philadelphia 8.
A residence occupied by colored residents on Billups street between Broad and Reese was burned last night around 9:30 while the family were at church. Neighbors reported the blaze sent a sky high flame, briefly resembling a fire at Lucy Cobb Institute.
The text notes yesterday as the first autumn day by the almanac not the calendar, with day and night splitting duration. It mentions a temporary twelve-hour day, eventual unequal lengths, and says no usual equinox atmospheric disturbance appeared.
Tax Collector W. A. Mallory will be kept busy for several days as county commissioners fix the rate and he calculates each man's tax for Clarke County. He prepares books and receipts to begin the annual tax gathering.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt notes a character who boasts originality by reusing a familiar bit. He recalls lending five dollars months earlier and asks if he ever repaid the fine, parrying with a sly line that echoes a classic ruse.
In a New York public school a reading class debated the meaning of escort. A small freckled boy offered a colorful East Side definition, describing an escort as a guy who has a girl and takes her out walking.
A classroom exchange features a student joking that all were saved in Noahs ark when asked how many persons were saved. Another apparent trick question about why a blacksmith hammers an iron tire before putting it on a wheel yields the punchline answer He doesnt.
A brief reflection extols living by one’s best standing and truth to self, suggesting happiness follows from steadfast conduct under principles attributed to Marcus Aurelius. The note offers a contemplative, timeless ethos rather than a news event or report.
Capital Gossip reports state highway department chair Tudge T. Patterson outlining regular monthly board meetings in Atlanta and outlines counties lining up prospective projects. Plans aim for county federal cost sharing and early implementation with counties submitting projects for federal review. Primary expense filings show candidates' costs. Denny to run for state senate in the Forty second district, Loftings nominated by the Thirty seventh district convention.
Partly rundown soils lose organic matter as wheat and corn deplete humus. Drought then destroys crops on soil that no longer holds moisture, leading farmers to blame dry weather. Also notes magnesia treatment to extract grease from woolen and silk goods.
On a Monday morning Jennie watched the kitchen assistant place clothes to boil for washing and cried that they would have rolled clothes for dinner, prompting a startled response from mamma.
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