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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1921
Page
4
The Athens Banner lists office address at 175 Lumpkin Street and notes daily delivery issues. A column mocks wife shooting headlines from Augusta Chronicle. A traveler encounters a Canadian hotel scene and a waiter’s joke ends with dinner being over.
Athens welcomes the Georgia Tech industrial tour party in a warm, cordial spirit. Georgians tour the state learning of its resources, products, and topography while visiting Athens educational centers and manufacturing hubs. The piece extols Athens as a hub of progress, with impressive plants and institutions and a bright outlook for the state's future.
The Maysville Enterprise praises American grit through a century of fires floods strikes riots wars and pandemics. It urges continued production and commerce to sustain progress, declaring the nation has faced every crisis without defeat and will persist.
The Savannah Press criticizes a high tariff push, arguing it delays tax relief and hurts Georgia farmers. It urges emphasis on European markets, noting America’s economic dependence and Europe’s debts. It cites Senator Harris and Democratic senators as cautious but informed.
Napoleon inspired drummer boys to rally troops and seize victory. The nation now must echo that drum, with optimistic business leaders beating a march, casting off retreat, and leading a renewed charge toward prosperity.
Poem by O G Bickers praises a man who avoids favors, acts with courtesy, and remains completely clean and true. Two names Morale and Esprit de corps describe the same concept across cultures.
The column lists yesterday's Kwiz answers covering topics from Mohammed and Mecca to manners of words and famous figures. It adds new questions on autom obile meaning vocation avocation Valkyrs Mont Pelee Michelangelo Belasco wolverine and the poem Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. A divorce case notes Bonsfeld and Gregory jailed for bigamy after a pact to live as singles.
Costa's advertises a Sunday dinner special featuring toasted Filibert cream dessert or spread. Order by phone 698 for pickup or delivery. The terse offer emphasizes a limited-time dine-in or curbside option.
A collage of brief quotations from multiple papers notes sharpening political rhetoric, a call for stronger phrasing by President Harding and Dawes, a fundraiser for an electric sign in Cape, a potential Ireland solution, a Utah miner’s fatal electric accident, and a scornful quip about spiritualists and pay.
A garbled timetable lists Seaboard Air Line routes with partial times for segments including Atlanta to Monrovia Memphis to Birmingham and Norfolk to Richmond. The fragments show northbound southbound notes and various departure and arrival times amid misread punctuation and missing city pairs.
The comic opera Ruddigore visits the Colonial Theater on the 14th with an all star Broadway cast and a top notch chorus and orchestra. It burlesques melodrama and features George Bogues Alice May Carley Bertram Goltra Marionne Godbout Dan Marble Joseph Florian Eva Quintard and others in a lively study of theatrical truth. Acclaimed by critics and crowds in New York it has run over two hundred performances and drew praise from Alexander Woollcott of the New York Times as the best show he ever saw.
Judge Fortson and Athens Bar association agree to postpone the county superior court civil docket due to conflicts with federal and county trials. Regular docket moves to Monday the 25th, with the Tuesday 26th trial date for cases set originally for Tuesday the 19th. Grand jury timing remains undecided.
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