Census Bureaus Second Ginning Report Totals Cotton
The Census Bureau reports 2 498 318 bales ginned before Sept 25, with 60 904 round bales and 18 781 sea island. State totals list Georgia 681 288 and Texas 1 179 406 among others. corrected prior to Sept 1 show 616 597 bales. Also includes a quoted 20 year old interlude attributed to Von Goetz predicting future war and New York seizure.
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Officers of Red Cross To Be Chosen
Athens Red Cross Chapter to elect officers for the year starting November first. A mass meeting will be called by the 15th. An executive nominating committee named Madame Lustrat as chair and several members to submit names to the gathering.
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Athens Red Cross Chapter
the Red Cross
Madame Lustrat
C. M. Snelling
John D. Moss
E. F. Porter
W. T. Bryan
Messia
M.G. Michael
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Mell
W. F. Dorsey
A. G. Richards
Billups Phinisy
D. G. Bickers
Heard Cannonading Two Hundred Miles Away
Reports from Prof. Orr of this city say he heard cannon fire near Charleston that echoed across 200 miles while directing ditching at Jefferson Georgia. He notes an east wind and humid air as factors and recalls the famous first guns of the Civil War.
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Europe
P. Orr
Charleston
Orr
Jefferson
Short Time Certificates Over-Subscribed by Government
The government’s latest issue of short time indebtedness worth 400 million dollars offered to anticipate the second Liberty Loan receipts has been oversubscribed.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
City Cleaning After Storm of Last Week
Pensacola reports storm cleanup underway after a hurricane last week grounds fishing schooners in the harbor. Naval station flying operations have resumed as the city clears debris and resumes normal activity.
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Associated Press
Pensacola
Naval Station
Former Mississippi Governor Hera Noell Visits Athens
Former Mississippi governor Hera Noell, a leading lawyer in the James M. Smith estate litigation, arrived yesterday from Lexington after attending a major sale of the estate’s farm lands. He has frequented Athens and made many friends there.
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Mississippi
James M. Smith
Lexington
Athens
Savannah Billboards Urging Conservation Take City Civic Spaces
Special to the Banner. Savannah Georgia October 2. Mayor Pierpont leads a food conservation drive with large slogans at city hall and the public library urging residents to "Food will win the war" and to avoid waste as part of the wartime effort. Additional billboard sites will spread the campaign citywide.
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Savannah
Pierpont
Food Administration
America’s Object War Speech From Wilson to Pope
A historic quotation from President Wilson responding to the Pope outlines the war aim to free global peoples from a vast military power ruling an aggressive, lawless regime. It denounces secret plans for world domination and the brutal toll on civilians and the helpless.
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Wilson
Red Cross Sanitary Units Protect Civilians Near Camps
Washington Oct 2 Red Cross sanitary units are being established around three more army encampments to safeguard civilian health. Fifteen cities now receive aid, cooperating with Public Health Service State Boards of Health and local authorities to inspect milk and water, control infectious diseases, and oversee general sanitation. In Greenville and Macon malaria mosquitoes are being addressed near the camps.
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Washington, D.C
Red Cross
Macon
Greenville
D. C
Manhattan
Kan
Judge Brand Announces Free Agricultural Bulletins for Farmers
Judge Charles H. Brand states he sent thirty thousand bulletins from the Agricultural Department to constituents and will supply future issues on request. He lists recent bulletins including No. 815 on drainage districts, No. 84 potato storage, 831 on cotton red spider control, 834 cholera prevention, 842 lightning protection, 848 boll weevil, 885 wheat growing in the South, and 868 potato crop spraying.
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Charles H. Brand
Agricultural Department
Foreign Trade Shows Big Improvement During Month
Exports in August rose to 490,009,828, up 115,500,000 from July, with twelve month total exports at 6,200,219,806. Imports August 270,509,379, up 45,000,000 from July. American purchases abroad reached 2,773,751,498 for the twelve months, while free entry merchandise accounted for 72.1 percent of imports. Gold imports were 18,692,170 and exports 46,049.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
German Front Nervous as Haig Forces Advance
An Associated Press report notes extreme German nervousness along the Ypres salient as Crown Prince Rupprecht’s forces launch strong infantry attacks against Haig’s army. French and German duels rage on the Aisne and Verdun fronts, while Russians push in the Riga region. British gains in Mesopotamia reportedly exceed initial estimates, with over 4,000 Turkish soldiers captured, along with guns and war stores.
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Central adds rolling stock for service in Savannah
The Central of Georgia Railway Company announces a major expansion ordering thirteen locomotives at 1.3 million dollars, fourteen passenger cars at 280 thousand dollars, and seven hundred freight cars at 240 thousand dollars, totaling about 2.5 million dollars. Ten locomotives will be Mallet type, with three added as passenger engines.
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Savannah
Central of Georgia Railway Company
Atlantic Coast Line adds trains between Savannah and Waycross
Atlantic Coast Line Railway announces four daily trains between Savannah and Waycross effective October 1. The new schedule aids shoppers, business people, and theatre-goers, and benefits residents along the line who travel to Savannah or into the country.
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Waycross
Atlantic Coast Line
Gavauissians
Umpires Named for 1917 World Series Show Four Officials
The 1917 World Series umpires are William J. Klem, Charles Rigler, Frank O Loughlin, and William G. Evans. All have long World Series experience, with Klem officiating since 1908 and O Loughlin dating to 1906. The group has previously worked together in 1912 and 1915, and are slated to work the 1917 series together with rotating duties.
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Charles Rigler
Frank O'Loughlin
William G. Evans
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Chicago
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Oday
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Navy yard job bids spark scramble for workers
Civil service announces Navy Yard Charleston positions including 264 sewing machine operators 83 shipfitters 32 shipfitters layerout boiler makers 100 shipfitters and 100 woodworker helpers with various trades listed in Norfolk Philadelphia Portsmouth and Puget Sound amid Congress readying to quit on a major career move.
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Norfolk
Virginia
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Portamouth
New Hampshire
Killed By Ford Car Near Crawfordville
Dan Lohr a Pennsylvania native and owner of a local saw mill was instantly killed when his Ford overturned on the road between Crawfordville and Robinson last night about eight o'clock. The car turned turtle and fell on him as it struck a sand-bar. Nearby Black residents heard the engine and found the fatal scene. His remains will be sent to Pennsylvania for interment.
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Anatolia College
Marsovan
Asia Minor
George E. White
Armenia
Arteeecen
Morgenthau
Crawfordville
Dan Lohr
Pennsylvania
Robinson
Emergent Call For Sets Knit Articles
Mrs. Thomas P. Stanley chairs the knitting committee of the Athens Chapter urging all knitters to deliver finished articles to her or Mrs. Welch without delay. A telegram from the Red Cross division requests knit sets for Georgia men in the Rainbow Division in Long Island, noting yarn delays and a goal of five hundred sets.
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Thomas P. Stanley
Athens
Georgia
Long Island
Guy EB. Snavely
The Message by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poem speaks of inner truth and spiritual vision as guiding humanity toward peace. It asserts the ruling Spirit moves history through crises, that peace requires living it, and that humanity will unite in brotherhood as war ends and good emerges. The poet envisions a slow but certain spiritual awakening across ages.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Elysians
Character and integrity in the big world, a man's true test
The speaker argues that character matters above all else. A man who lies or walks crooked loses friends and wrecks his life, while an honest man facing reverses may become broke yet gain new support and eventual prosperity. Character is the most valuable trait, a lesson many youths overlook. Col. Al Fair brother.
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al Fairbrother
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