Our Country's Flag Sermon on Duty and Devotion
A church ceremony extols Old Glory as a symbol of liberty and justice. The speaker links the flag to democracy, Christian faith, and national duty, urging support for troops, wartime bonds, and moral purity, praising loyalty over pacifism and recalling Allied allies and historic battles.
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Emmanuel Church
United States Army
America
Washington
Bursoyne
New Jersey
Delaware
Cornwallis
York Town
Francis Scott Key
Old Fort McHenry
Europe
Tripoli
Mexico
Santa Anna
Peary
North Pole
Stanley
Africa
Earth
China
Citi Sens
Reu
Ben
Gad
Reuben
Unlke
God of Old
Meroz
Angel of the Lord
Germany
France
Pledge of Allegiance Recalled in 1917 Letter
In a November 1 1917 letter A G Richards extols royal patriotism and pledged allegiance to the flag. He urges unity and loyalty to the Republic and to liberty and justice for all praising the President and the nation’s colors.
Jackson Farms See 700 Percent Gain in Land Value
Messrs. A. M. Shankle B. Shankle and W. D. Sheppard administrators of Seaborn M. Shankle estate sold 557 12 acres near Nicholson Ga at public auction before the Jefferson court house for 35091.00. The land, bought from Billy Smith about thirty years ago for 5000.00, shows a seven hundred percent rise, illustrating the county's rising farm values over the past three to four decades.
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Commerce
A. M. Shankle
B. Shankle
W. D. Sheppard
Seaborn M. Shankle
Court House
Jefferson
Nicholson
S. M. Shankle
3. M. Shankle
Billy Smith
Jackson County
The Volunteer by Faith Baldwin and Loyal Causes
A Wartime prose piece extols patriotic commitment and personal sacrifice. It frames love and duty, notes the unity of soldiers and civilians, and lauds women of Athens for driving fundraisers for the Y M C A Red Cross and Liberty Bonds, urging men to respond with support and effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faith Baldwin
the Vigilantes
Athens
Red Cross
Doan's Kidney Pills Advise Athens Readers
Athens resident Mrs. 8 F Davis of Cobb Street testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills eased her back pain and fatigue caused by kidney disease. The ad urges quick action in kidney danger and notes price 60 cents at all dealers. Foster Milburn Company, Buffalo, N Y, distributes the remedy.
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Athens
Dean
F. Davis
Cobb St. Athens
Doan
Davis
Foster-Milburo Co. Props
Buffalo
N. Y
Welch Served On Yesterday
J L Welch of Crawford Oglethorpe county was arrested on perjury charges tied to the Boatwright claimants in the Smith case. He gave temporary $2500 surety. committal hearing set for Thursday before Commissioner W G Cornett.
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J. L. Welch
Crawford
Oglethorpe County
Boatwright
Smith
W. W. Ballew
Ogtethorpe County
Little
Powell
W. G. Cornett
Welch
Col. Smith
Phoebe Boatwright
General Toombs
Zadock
Zadoc Smith
Gen. Toombs
College Club in Paris Grows Quickly for American Servicemen
The American University Union in Paris, a club for American college men serving the country, has drawn members from eighty four colleges in just three weeks. Initial quarters at the Royal Palace Hotel proved too small and space was expanded at a nearby hotel.
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College Club
Paris
University of Georgia
France
New York Times
Cambridge
American University Union In
Roger Pierce
Board of
George H.nettleton
Union
Royal Palace Hotel
Loans to farm youths spread through midwest publishers
Last spring the publisher of Successful Farming in Des Moines offered loans to boys and girls to buy and raise calves pigs or chickens or grow crops. Loans are being repaid from sales. The same publication helped fund seed wheat for Oklahoma wheat clubs shipping two carloads to 4560 young farmers. Similar efforts are by Bradley Knitting Co Delevan Wis and F A Patrick Duluth Minn lending money to youths for sheep purchases repaid from wool sales. The Battle Cry of Feed em also 6 national af r.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Oklahoma
Bradley Knitting Co
Delevan
Wis
F. A. Patrick
Duluth
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A. G. Richards
Emmanual Church
Psalm 60
R. V
The
Red
Galt
Doctor Keate
Eton
Ola Keate
India
Keate
Emma Goldman
Prussia
Roby Berg
Belrium
Congo
Belgium
Leopold
Bernhardi
Tila
South West Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Cape
Cairo
England
Flanders
Rome
Italy
Y. M.C.A
Navy
You
Apollo
Egypt
Greece
Scandinavia
Woden
Friga
Thor
Olympus
Poland
Serbia
Roumania
Ife
Jesus Christ
Hrutus
Macbeth
Benedict Arnold
Judas Iscariot
Heaven
Hell
Onathema
Theodore Roosevelt
Micah
Turkey
Moloch
Beelzebub
God of Justice
Neitzche
Bernhardt
Bissing
Hindenburg
Kaiser
Daimonides
Raimonides
Jackson
Froyer
Lowell
Mustang
Liniment
Afr
Alabama
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