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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
8
Classified page fragment lists Lipscomb's Specialty-Fire Insurance and Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest on savings deposits with compounding twice a year. Also mentions various local services, moving and storage, plumbing, painting, furniture storage, lost items, and several sales and rental notices across Athens.
A crop of grocery notices lists fresh lettuce celery cucumbers tomatoes peppers and beans from Costa's Del Fleming Oliver Arnold Abney Co Skelton Brothers and Piggly Wiggly. It markets strawberries Florida fruit oranges lemons bananas and Georgia products with daily fresh shipments and phone numbers for orders.
Furman piled up four early runs as Georgia rallied, then tied the score in the seventh. Clarke homered for Georgia, and McCloud worked to hold Furman, with Fitts and Hutcheson contributing for Georgia and Furman tying late before Clarke sealed the big inning with a homer to the scoreboard. Box score follows.
Harrison Arkansas April 6 Union leaders directing a strike along the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad agreed to leave the issue after a mass meeting of citizens from towns along the line. The move came at the urging of a committee of local residents and with 100 men awaiting their decision.
Tokio April 6 Fire in the Asakua section spread through the day injuring fifty people and destroying about 1,700 houses. The blaze began early this morning and continued to burn into the afternoon.
A called communication of Mt. Vernon Lodge No. 22 F and A M will be held at the K of P Hall Thursday evening April 7 at 7 oclock. The MMM degree will be conferred on a large class. Kindly and fraternally invited to meet with us by order of Hl G Story W M M O Quinn Rec. Use Georgia Producta.
Lt. J. S. Stewart son of Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Stewart of Georgia University is expected to arrive in his hometown soon after his release from Turkish captivity. He was held from August until February while aiding an American relief effort in the Near East and will escort six Armenian girls to the Red Cross before traveling to Athens to see his parents and share his experiences.
C H Ashford prominent religious and educational worker formerly of Watkinsville died in Atlanta after a ten day illness He was 66 and survived by a wife two children and several siblings A funeral will be held in Watkinsville with services led by Bishop Candler in Atlanta and a short service at the family cemetery Dunbar Dunaway Co handles arrangements
A program of legislation for farmers will be mapped out next week by the senate and house agricultural committees in cooperation with national agricultural association representatives in session here. Senator Capper said many senators and representatives will attend as they seek to evolve an agrarian legislative budget upon which all would agree.
Washington lawmakers announced plans to bring the immigration bill to the new congress. The measure, vetoed by Wilson last session, would limit foreign-born residents to 3 percent of the existing alien population for one year, with May 1 set for a floor action. Senator Dillingham had prepared the immediate introduction of the bill.
A Buick roadster was sold by Federal Prohibition Agent Miller for 302 dollars to aid anti illicit distillery efforts. The raid that captured the car occurred weeks earlier when 8, Dawson was found with a supply of spirits. Will Bryant purchased the machine.
A Southern Railway Royal Palm derailed near New River Tennessee injuring many. Five perished including two at the scene and three later in Somerset Hospital, caused by spreading rails, officials said.
London April 6. Bermer Emperor Charles arrived at Lucerne tonight, according to a Zurich dispatch and appeared very exhausted.
Washington April 6 tugboat workers agreed at a conference with employers and Secretary Davis to accept no reductions before May 1 and to preserve old scales under the new agreement. They also consented to a roughly 25 percent cut effective March 10, pending a broader pact adoption.
Washington reports March unemployment rose again despite renewed auto plant activity and partial reopenings of three to four other industries. Labor Department statistics show continuing rise in unemployment across the United States, with persistent jobless numbers despite some industry gains.
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