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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1920
Page
4
The Athens Banner publishes from 175 Lumpkin Street with H J Rowe as editor. It requests prompt delivery reports and notes Associated Press rights for republication of dispatches and local news.
A Turner county representative proposes dividing Georgia into two states. The idea draws sharp ridicule from Savannah Press and statewide readers. The plan aims to gain attention and free publicity for the sponsor, while others warn it would never pass.
A local call urges Athens to establish a Boy Scout chapter with hundreds of youths. The piece argues scouts would aid civic and church work, support food administration efforts, and build character through directed training led by a paid supervisor, suggesting minimal tax burden and strong community benefits. It stresses organizing and uniting youths for city welfare and postwar duties.
A list of miscellaneous trivia items and questions extracted from a damaged source. Topics include digit meaning, foxglove, cat-o-nine-tails, George III, Chinese oatmeal uses, Santa Catalina Island, gingham origin, The Woman in White, chickadee name, Victoria Falls height, and a batch of future quiz prompts about Niagara Falls, explorers, flag display, quotable lines, wind jammer, frigate bird, potato soil, Old Folks at Home, and daylight saving law.
A reflection on Mother’s Day recalling childhood faith and the first measures of Christ’s story. It ponders a mother’s blessing at Calvary and asks who steadies a life through night. The Arbiter ends with a line about mothers deciding peace on Earth.
The piece argues true life centers on God and Christ not worldly wealth or pleasures. It cites Solomon’s vanity and the heliocentric shift as analogies, urging readers to center ambitions on Christ, live selflessly, and accept eternal life through devotion, warning against missing life by neglecting faith.
A collection of reader inquiries covers graduation gifts such as fountain pens watches and dictionaries, Mary Baker Eddy’s passing attributed to old age, cautions against bleeding for whitening the skin, honey recipes with USDA guides, rumors of lepers in a New York cigarette factory, where to obtain a book on the award shawl family, typing stories for magazines costs and sources, London papers, and humane euthanasia for a pet with veterinary contact suggestions.
A daily health talk reviews a Journal of the American Medical Association report on typhoid deaths in cities with populations over 100000. Nine largest cities show a drop, now averaging ten per hundred thousand, with Philadelphia higher and Chicago New York Detroit Boston Cleveland remarkably low. Water and milk inspection drive safety. board of health seen as guardian of welfare rather than a nuisance.
Evangelize Georgia recounts Chapman's tale of a church officer admitting failure to share salvation with his four sons and a notorious sinner who later recognizes the officer as a church member to his surprise. The anecdote underscores personal evangelism duties.
A speaker recalls Verdi directing attention not to applause but to the master, Jesus, and urges believers to seek divine approval in all work. A Princeton summer conference memory echoes the call to supernatural work through faith, urging church officers and parents to lead souls to Christ and to ask their pastors for guidance.
Cloudy conditions with probable showers and unsettled weather across the region. A trough of low pressure moved from the lakes to North Carolina bringing colder air in the east and scattered showers across the southern states. Frost reported in the lake region with temperatures rising slightly in Texas and the west but remaining cool.
Palmer & Son offers a refund if Wendall's Pills Ambition Brand do not restore energy and vigor after one box. The ad promises quicker relief in two days and two weeks, cites nervous troubles, headaches, and appetite loss, and urges buying a 50 cent box from Imer & Son and dealers nationwide.
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