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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1921
Page
6
The page includes The Athens Savings Bank promoting 4 percent savings deposits with compounding on January 1 and July 1, and a variety of small ads: printing, dental services, renting offices in Holman Building, sewer pipe supply, house painting, plumbing, selling Ford cars, lost traveling bag, shoe hospital, pure Georgia cane syrup, furniture and hardware items, rooms for rent, and job offers.
A bustling market notice lists English peas turnips radishes Irish potatoes cucumbers squash beans lettuce and more with prices. Vendors Fleming Oliver Skelton Brothers Arnold Abney Clarke County Yates and others advertise fruits, berries, potatoes chips and rolls with contact numbers 1086 1047. The note ends with a warning about a lethal wound from a poisoned arrow tip.
Daily ruling prices in the exchange show spot cotton varying by city with Athens at 12.25c and New York quiet at 12c while Atlanta remains steady at 10.95c and New Orleans at lic. CITIES SERVICE QUOTATIONS note Henry L. Doherty comments on wealth creation benefiting others.
Elon College defeats N. 2 AL & M 4 by 16 to 4 in Elon North Carolina. Virginia Holy beats Carnegie Tech 5 to 4 in Blacksburg Virginia. Cornell tops Virginia 3 to 1 in Charlottesville. Florida beats Trinity 6 to 2 in Durham. Maryland edged by Western New Co 4 to 1 in Chapel Hill. Erskine over South Carolina 13 to 31 in Columbia. Wake Forest defeats Wofford 12 to 3 in Wake Forest.
A Banner correction fixes Mildred Thompson death notice to read that she was survived by forty five grandchildren and twenty six great grandchildren. The item notes clarifications about survivor counts and cites Hull Georgia.
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