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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1921
Page
8
Athens area notices list savings rates from The Athens Savings Bank and New York Life Insurance services. Also advertised are collection agencies, cabbage plants, seed canaries, canning items, heaters, and used piano lessons resuming January 10 for John B. Gamble's piano program.
Cable from Col. A H Wallace states famine district Chinese can be fed for 1.50 monthly per person. Army transports Manila to deliver several hundred tons of relief. Merritt expected soon with more supplies for famine sufferers. Eskimos in Alaska declining in population. Wisconsin leads in dairy products. U S tea use reported higher in black than green.
Local business Fleming and Oliver promote home roasted coffee and sliced meats. They list phones 1046 and 1047 and advertise sliced beef ham tongue and breakfast bacon.
Sunday afternoon at the Young Men’s Christian Association the Sunday Y club will host P. B. Trigg university general secretary. He will speak on An Athlete Who Achieved the Strength of Ten and mention Georgia football star Bob McWhorter. All boys are invited to attend at 3 o clock. The river Elbe tide rises about ten feet.
Attorney General Payne says blue laws must be repealed or amended to be enforceable. He notes lack of definition for gainful occupations lets baseball, motion pictures and other Sunday amusements slip through. Public opinion splits between broad repeal and targeted expansion of prohibitions.
Market quotations show steady tone in cotton with middling around 16.75 cents in New York and New Orleans 12 1 4 cents. Chicago wheat corn oats pork lard rib prices listed with open high low and close figures. Also notes Liberty Bonds values and Michigan plan to plant Victory Highway with apple trees and beaver dam findings plus 18 000 disabled veterans in U S hospitals.
Washington January 7 A million dollar federal fund to fight forest fires urged before the house committee by representatives of commercial groups forest conservation societies and others.
Milledgeville Georgia January 7 fire destroyed several sections of Dr P D Allen s private sanitarium this afternoon. More than one hundred patients many of them wounded soldiers were carried out. No lives were lost.
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