Pellagra Crisis Looms Over South as Prices Fall
The Athens Banner discusses the U S Public Health Service Pellagra report showing widespread dietary deficiency in the South with an estimated 100000 cases and at least 1000 deaths. It links poverty from cotton prices to the starvation diet and urges financial aid to tenants to restore work and stability. It also covers veterans relief and proposed consolidation of war risk, vocational education, and health service bureaus into a single Veterans Bureau.
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United States Public Health Service
Gove’ T Bureau
Andt
Oldory
Congress
United States
Bureau of
Plea for Nature Study Moves Congressional Hearing
A 15 year old Preshington boy Jimmie Bradley told a congressional committee that nature study in schools awakens interest in learning. He argued that when students seek more knowledge after engaging with birds, flowers, and stones they improve and become prepared for life, and urged nature study in all Athens schools and beyond.
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Preshington
Jimmie Bradley
Congressional ‘Committee
Hss
Athens
Editorial comment on Georgia cane in Florida trade
A Palatka sugar firm plans to import cane from South Georgia, contracting with Bay City growers for next season and leveraging favorable Ray City to Palatka freight rates. The piece argues for reciprocal trade, suggests Savannah as a storage route if refinery output continues, and criticizes rising railroad costs and broader nonsense in public discourse.
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Georgia
Florida
Palatka
Fla
South Georgia
Bay City
Ray City
Valdosta Times
Savannah
Answers to Yester day's Kwiz card list update
Answers cover 10 items on weddings membranes anatomy capitals and history. Includes definitions of pleura pericardium Sault Ste Marie canal and parchments plus a new set of questions on mahout capitals of Central American nations San Jose Managua Sunna George Fox and terms china silver ophiology and horology.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Missouri
Booker
San Jose
Managua
George Fox
Montana
Prosperous Commerce Towns Around Athens Focus of Feature
The piece profiles Commerce Georgia, its editor, local publishers, and prominent leaders. It notes Shannon as a long-serving editor, P T Harber of the Commercial Observers, and Hatcher’s involvement in Georgia press affairs. It lists four banks in Commerce, major merchants, several garages, theaters, churches, and a 700-student accredited high school under Superintendent H B Carreker and Principal N G Long.
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Harber
Florida
National Editorial Association
Hatcher
Commerce
Northeastern Banking Company
L. G. Hardman
C. J. Hood
First National Bank
W. W. Stark
J. B. Hardman
G.L. Hubbard
H. B. Carreker
N. G. Long
Social fabric and fraternal life in Commerce Georgia
The article outlines local social life in Commerce Georgia with details on women’s organizations Daughters of the Revolution United Daughters of the Confederacy and fraternal groups including Masonic Knights of Pythias and Odd Fellows. It lists Hudson Lodge 294 F and A M Commerce Lodge 75 Knights of Pythias Harmony Grove Lodge 30 I C O F and notes about 260 members. City Board of Trade activity and leadership by L L Davis are mentioned along with municipal officers including Mayor W W Stark and councilmen J L Duson L L Davis Claude Montgomery T J Susan A D Harriss and T C Hardman.
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Te Daughters of the Revolution
United Daughters, of the Confederacy
Masonic
Knights of Pythias
Odd Fellow
Hudson Lodge
A. M
J. D. Waddell
J. Sysan
A. D. Bolton
City Board of Trade
Commerce Board of Trade
Georgia
L. L. Davis
Commerce
Board of Trade
City of Commerce
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the Athens Banner
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Act of Congress
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Audit ‘Bureau
Wally Banner
Daily
Tenner
Dolly Hanner
Hanner
Abe
Dally
Sunday Banner
Sunday Herald
Swinton
Nina Pat
Illitch
Russia
Film Trust
Forester
Commerce Bank and Trust Company
G. T. Rice
O. Walton
E. B. Anderson
Williford-Burns-Rice Co
Montgomery & Co
Harber Merchandise Co
W. Y
G. J. Harber
Sheppard-Davis-Nix Co
W. D. Mann
T. Z. Lee Nix
Arcane
Commerce, GA
Banner-Herald i
Aroun
Lipscomb Fire Insurance Agency
Holman Bldg
Hubert M. Rylee
Athens, GA
TEL
Green & Michael Loan Department i
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Savannah Avenue
Mr. Martin, Erwin & CO
Ulock
the Banner-Herald
the Herald Evening
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