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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1915
Page
7
A wealthy New Zealand resident offers a free gift of prime mining land to fund wounded soldiers. The scheelite deposit could yield about 30,000 tons of tungsten worth around 75 million dollars, with all mineral profits directed to veterans’ support. Also note a quip about snakes’ poor eyesight.
Brussels residents endure constant German surveillance and fear deportation as secret agents monitor every remark. Unemployment soars with 88 000 jobless in Brussels and suburbs, 27 000 women and 42 000 children on relief, while many skilled workers flee or fail to pass Dutch frontier gates.
A Japanese embassy official in Washington declares Japan seeks no territorial gains. He emphasizes Japan aims for universal peace and China is Japan's Mexico, denying any plan to annex or conquer China while favoring joint world peace and improved relations with Russia and the United States.
Executors of the estate of Mrs. S J V Johnson offer 300 acres in Oglethorpe County near Winterville and Arnoldsville. About 100 to 125 acres cultivated. rest timbered. Flat, well watered, no waste land, near churches and markets. Cash terms. Title perfect. J T Pittard Winterville and T H Dozier Athens listed as executors. 6t w fr su
A chatty note contrasts past and present reading habits citing Mrs. McGudley on dancing and reading. It then presents a rough world religion ranking: Buddhists about 500 million, Muslims 200 million, Hindus 80 million, Christians 400 million, Confucianists 250 million, and pagans about 200 million.
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