Rally Day Observed Across Local Churches
Churches announce Rally Day events and Sunday school at 9:45 to 10:30 with sermons at 11:15 or 11:09. Services cover Prince Avenue Presbyterian Oconee Street Methodist First Baptist First Presbyterian First Methodist with promotions, confirmations, and special programs led by ministers and visiting clergy.
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Christian Church
Stanley R. Grubb
Pulaski St
Prince Avenue Presbyterian
Oconeest
E. P. Clark
First Baptist Church
James William Lynch
Young Harris Memorial Methodist Church
R. England
Horace M. Williamson
First Presbyterian Church
E. L. Hill
J. D. McPhail
Lane Chapel
Hoyt Chapel
First Church
First Methodist, Co
C. Jarrell
Small Luxuries of Wiring and Electric Convenience
A household guest praises switches and lighting as simple luxuries that save lives and money. The piece argues extra switches and outlets quickly pay for themselves through efficiency, then shifts to Baghdad railway news with concession sales, multiple surveyed routes, and planned imperial approval.
Electric railway proposed for Bagdad survey begins
Two English engineers arrived in Bagdad to survey three routes for an electric railway. They will study possible lines, costs, and urban impact as part of the project development.
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Moazzem
Bagdad
Gazara
Mahmoud Shabander
Shabander
Europe
The
Tigris
West Bagdad
Constantinople
Bagdid
Illuminating Engineering Society Convention Set for Pittsburgh
The Illuminating Engineering Society plans its Pittsburgh convention at Hotel Schenley from September 22 to 26. The program includes technical papers and entertainment for delegates and ladies such as golf tennis baseball automobile titles theater and card parties plus a banquet with promised innovations. Chattanooga merchants raise 26000 for a Great White Way project half a mile long.
ElectroJokes From Thirty Years Ago
A fragment notes a humorous section titled ElectroJokes from thirty years past. It hints at telephone transmitters needing a dramatic color description and mentions X-RAYS WANTED as a cheeky subtitle, reflecting a playful era tone.
Edison urged to craft X rays from eyepieces
The piece notes a New England request asking Edison to fit opera glass eyepieces with X rays and return them. A Pennsylvania correspondent asks Edison to send one pound of X rays and bill promptly. The tone treats Edison as capable of miraculous feats.
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Edison
New England
Pennsylvania
Thomas A. Edison
Luminous Band Lights Up Ohio Concerts With Miniaura Headlights
A band in an Ohio town adopts a cap mounted lighting system to illuminate the music on stage after dark. A Mazda battery lamp sits above the visor, directing light onto the lyre via a reflector. Wires run inside the sweatband to a battery pocket under the cap brim, controlled by a switch.
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Ohio
Mazda
Mount Tamalpais to Light Panama Exposition Grounds
Mount Tamalpais Railroads plan a giant searchlight for the Panama Pacific Exposition. A mirror and lens will focus the lamp onto a 100 by 100 foot area nine miles away, aiming to illuminate the exposition grounds significantly.
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Mount Tamalpais
San Francisco
Exposition Grounds
Twelve Club entertains at Lumpkin home in Athens
At the hospitable home of Judge and Mrs E K Lumpkin the Twelve Club met with twelve members present and invited guests. Prof S V Sanford read a paper on Epoch Making Decisions of the U S Supreme Court. Guests and social notes follow with local visits and church group plans. Many names and addresses from Athens and nearby towns appear in the society paragraph.
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E. K. Lumpkin
Rey
E. L. Hill
H. H. Linton
C. M. Snelling
J. J. Strickland
Chancellor Barrow
Andrew J. Cobb
S. V. Sanford
W. T. Bryan
R. T. BuBose
Sylvanus Morris
Hamilton McWhorter
Horace Holden
E. R. Hodgesn, Jr
S. C. Upson
Joseph H. Lumpkin
Alanta
E. R. Lumpkin, Jr
Jos H. Lumpkin, Jr
Morris
U. S. Supreme Court
Paint Better Paint Best and Save in the End
The ad argues cheap paint costs more in the long run, claiming a buyer saves little per gallon yet buys far more gallons and still loses money on labor and paint. It promotes Devoe as the long lasting, cost efficient choice. Miss Etta Mae Mathews of Comet visits the city while Talmadge Hardware shows the ad.
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Devoe
California Irrigation Expands With Electric Pumps
In San Joaquin County California near Stockton water level makes irrigation cheap by electric pumping. Over 300 pumping plots powered by electric motors have been installed in the adjacent area. Churches use electric signs to draw attention to the public.
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California
Stockton
San Joaquin County
Norman Field Players Return to Colonial Theatre in New Week
Norman Field and company reopen at the Colonial Theatre for a week with eight new bills and a new repertoire led by Alaska with Field as Captain Burrel U S A. Three new performers join the troupe and Happy Jack Kearney will perform new songs and monologue. Bargain matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 3 30 offer any seat for 10 cents with night prices 10 20 and 30 cents. Tickets at Palmer's until 6 pm then box office.
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Norman Field
Colonial Theater
Mr. Field
Alaska
Captain Burrel
Jack Kearney
Palmer's
A Notre Dame Lady Offers Free Rheumatic Cure
A Mrs. M Summers of Notre Dame Indiana advertises a home remedy for rheumatism sciatica lumbago backache kidney pains and neuralgia claiming it cures at home without climate change. The note promises proof by letter and asks sufferers to write to Box R Notre Dame for details and free treatment.
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Notre Dame
M. Summers
Box R
Notre Dame, Ind
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Athes Engineering Co
Clayton
James Smith Building
Taylor Electric CO
College Ave
Baptist Tabernacle
Neighbour
T. W. Callaway
Macon
Atheny
Tabernacle
Onconee Street
Order OF Services Emmanuel Church
Troy Beatty
Mary Mortimer
East Side
Engineering Society
Merchants of
Chattanooga
Panama
Twelve Club
D. P. Haselton
Miriam Haselton
Atlanta
E. J. Murphy
Barnesville
Jere Pound
State Normal School
Henderson
Tampa, Florida
Gray Hopkins
Milledge Avenue
A. W. Ashford
W. H. Ashford
Watkinsville
City
S. F. Porter
Bishop
Emmanuel Church Guild
H. J. Rowe
Geo. Clifton
Colorado
Athens
W. D. Beacham
Harry Woodruff
Athanta
Mrs. W. A. Carlton
New York
Raiford Wood
Robert Robson
Tallulah Falls
John Hill Moss
Lucy
Annie Linton
Etta Park
Mrs. McBride Howell
Master William Howell
White Plains
Annie May Smith
Lucy Cobb
Commerce
W. A. Shackelford
John Booth
John Spivey
Thomas E. Green
Twelth Street
Mrs. Morristow
Immanuel Baptist
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
China
Northern Baptist Convention
H O. Bourhard
Greenwood Advertising Co
Athens Railway and Electric Company
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