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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1915
Page
2
In Athens the fall season marketing push begins with ads urging investment and consumer action as prices for Island cotton trend high. The city forecasts growth across business and farming, noting improved outlook and confident sentiment among merchants and residents. The World Series opened with a split victory, typical of early rounds.
A reflective poem of memory and work as a seamstress recalls childhood play, wedding dress sewing, and aging. The speaker links stitching to life’s toil and faith, imagining divine reward after crossing the Jordan. The piece blends past and present with images of clocks, fruit, cake, and the call to persevere in duty.
The commentary that Russia would tire of the great war and seek peace with the Teutonic powers proved unfounded. Russia remains determined to fight to the end, as shown by its ultimatum to Bulgaria. The bear is in the ring, bearing the brunt of eastern front warfare alongside the Allies.
The text states Germany must accept President Wilson's stance over the Arabic incident. It insists on arbitration for damages to heirs from the sinking but rejects arbitration of the German commander's responsibility or German government disavowal. It warns Kaiser William to decide now whether to break with the United States, noting Wilson's firm, non negotiable position.
The press notes a Banks County woman aged over ninety who has already picked more than a half bale of cotton this season. Her busy, healthful habit is praised as an example to able bodied men who shirk work, urging them to imitate her energy rather than idle bystanders.
Georgia should avoid reducing state appropriations in the upcoming special session. Officials argue the state is financially able to sustain and even increase funding for education and state services. Instead, focus on raising sufficient taxes by broadening the tax base rather than cutting funds to common schools, universities, or state facilities.
The text discusses types of courtesy as business intangibles influencing success. It contrasts dependable references and guaranteed profits with aggressive promotion, noting active attention to prospects and existing customers as a crucial, nonmaterial asset in competition.
A column urges shops to train clerks and owners in hearty welcome attentive service and genuine courtesy. It argues that personal treatment outweighs price differences for standard goods, noting the sunshine store and cheerful office attract crowds.
The canal faces a major slide requiring about a million cubic yards of earth and rock to be moved. A proposed remedy suggests closing the canal for a month, refunding tolls to ninety ships, and transporting cargoes by rail across the continent. Builders expect eventual stabilization and a permanent, satisfactory condition.
New York observes Fire Prevention Week with school programs and business safety actions to reduce home and factory fires. Officials cite child fire deaths, urge education, hazard removal, and ready extinguishing means to lower insurance costs and the city’s fire toll.
Americans shift focus to the World Series as Red Sox face the Phillies while war and politics recede. The piece notes sports offer national energy with no lasting wartime aftermath, contrasting worldly cable fears with fan fervor.
Charles Speare discusses a remarkable year in American business as Europe’s geography shifts and wartime upheavals ripple worldwide. He notes a swift move from dependence to independence, a dramatic economic transformation unseen in prior eras, marking a fairy tale-like rebound in American commerce.
A year after the war the United States faced large debts to Europe with shortages and bank strain. England sent commissioners urging payment in gold, while American dollars traded at deep discounts. Trade collapsed, unemployment rose, and gold hoarding spread as exchanges fell in London Paris Berlin and Frankfurt.
Prof Charles Holmes Herty former University of Georgia faculty member and local resident was honored as president of the American Chemical Society. His presidential address urged chemical preparedness and cooperation between Congress and industry, stressing the nation’s dependence on imported sodium nitrate and Germany’s impact on domestic supplies amid wartime tensions.
Alfred P. Thom argues that the compact binding states grants each state the right to protection against trade selfishness by sister states. He cites the commerce clause as intended to guard against exclusion and embargoes, urging that no single Congress or state should monopolize justice in inter state and foreign trade.
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