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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1912
Page
7
Real estate rentals and sales notes appear from Erwin & Company and others. Listings include four room cottages on Barber street and Cobb street, two five room cottages, a Chalmers touring car for sale, poultry and farming supplies, and light wagons. Local sellers promote nails, decorating, and bread products from Arnold Abney and others in Athens.
John Pearson, long affiliated with a top New York City tailoring house and more recently with a leading Atlanta shop, arrived yesterday to join the R. 3 Starick tailoring house on Clayton Street in this city.
Misc classified items list services and ads including deposits at Athens Savings Bank at 4 percent, farm birds from prize winners, rental rooms, barber training, picture framing, prize poultry for sale, table boarders at a hotel, and cottage for sale or rent. Names include G. Birchmore, E. H. Scott, A. H. Davison, Mrs. Ida Chambers.
The notice touts the latest improved freezers offering quicker freezing and guaranteed satisfaction for buyers. It emphasizes efficiency and reliability, encouraging customers to switch to these advanced models.
The Athens Fruit Co. receives a car load of high quality oranges from San Francisco, the shipment completing in ten days and hailed as one of California’s finest lots.
Tonight at 8 oclock in the lodge stallion installation of officers for the new term will take place. Degrees will be conferred and new applications voted on with other matters of interest. A social session will follow. full attendance requested. H Carithers, E R, George H Palmer, Secretary.
Washington April 2 tunneling from a department bulletin shows tick eradication cut losses from 15.3 percent to 1.3 percent in ten years. Reports indicate cattle weights rose about 22 percent and steer values up 56 to 57 percent. A dip method is advised with a Southern Railway folder by W W Finley Washington.
A well known employee was accidentally locked inside his workplace on Clayton street after hours. With doors not spring-locked, he used a phone to summon help as clerks, the proprietor, and foreman searched without success. After about two hours his release came once the missing manager was found. supper had cooled.
Athens leaders and educators journey to Nashville this week for the state educational conference. Attendees include Chancellor Barrow and University professors, State Normal School officials, and leaders from the boys and girls clubs and state agriculture college.
George Thurmond of the 1347th militia district became the first Clarke County resident to file 1912 tax returns with tax receiver J H Dorsey at the city hall. Many local citizens urged filing county and state returns with assessors reports attached.
Special today offers fresh eggs five and a half dozen for one dollar. Fancy Irish potatoes and green cabbage are featured alongside lemons. A few fat hens also listed with the store name Arnold and Abney and the phone line 232.
Cream puffs and chocolate eclairs priced at 30e each appear in the pastry lineup. Arnold and Abney offer a selection of confections.
A historical piece explains that dental licensure now requires formal education in anatomy and surgery, and discusses the link between indigestion and dental health. It urges regular brushing with soft water and antiseptic washes, avoiding extravagances, and visiting a dentist seasonally to prevent tartar and decay.
Special to the Banner reports that about a million Jews in Greater New York observed Passover. The eight day festival celebrates the Exodus from Egypt and the removal of leaven from homes, with matsos baked from flour and water. It is noted that more than 10,090 barrels of flour are used for the matsos in New York during the holiday.
Eighteen additional feet were added to the 149 feet already secured for Kessee Settlement work. The Banner notes this as part of a fundraising scheme to complete the great project, with momentum rising toward the mile post and ongoing appeals for further contributions.
The five year old son of Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Sullivan of Oconee street injured in a fall from a school grounds chute. He broke the bone of his right arm and badly wrenched the other arm but is improving steadily.
Tickets were placed on sale at Palmer's for a suffragette play to be staged next Monday night at the Colonial Theatre. The cast includes prominent Athenan figures in a lively comedy and seats are reserved with early buyers given priority choice.
Advice stresses dental and digestive health to prevent toothaches and decay. Emphasizes daily hygiene and balanced routines to avoid unpleasant consequences of carelessness.
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