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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1920
Page
8
A collage of small ads lists insurance transfer storage and car services by Thomas Bros and Belf-starter needs. For sale items include a four room house and a Ford Overland and a 5 passenger touring car in good condition. Lost keys, room rentals, nursery asks and a fundraiser offer details follow.
A denser ad lists lettuce tomatoes celery and assorted vegetables at Piggly Wiggly prices plus citrus fruits such as grapefruit oranges and Winesap apples. Also featured are canned goods flour cocoa pancake flour syrup breakfast meats cheeses breads and baked items from local shops including Costa's Delicatessen Arnold Abney & Co and Maitlard's listed alongside pastries and snack items.
Classified notice promoting home decor pictures 10 by 34 inches in multiple colors. Promises exquisite beauty and customer satisfaction with a money back guarantee. Mentions agents distributing the item.
Thornton's Luncheonette offers a 66 cent plate dinner with brown beef stew roast beef cabbage and ham hock rice stewed corn corn pone snow cake and beverages. First Baptist Church announces next Sunday is the regular time for observing the Lord's Supper per Pastor J. W. Lynch.
The Athens Savings Bank official F A Lipscomb sold the building on Clayton Street to Max Michael. Located in the heart of the business district, the property is described as one of the most desirable business houses in the city and was formerly occupied by the Charles Stern Company.
Augusta adds another standout to the Georgia Wildcats squad as Mangum thrives in right field and at catcher. The Canal City player, once a top batter, shows improved speed and power this season under Coach Stegeman, with a strong chance of earning mythical all southern honors.
In Atlanta, Tech and Georgia display surprising chivalry amid heated rivalries while basketball, football, and baseball spark renewed cordial relations. Alumni and fans watch as the blood and water adage gives way to a handshake after battle and hope for future good times.
A British manufacturing delegation arrives in the United States to study American production methods. Led by Lemuel Mechan and J Y Moyes, the group includes leaders from Mechans Limited Coventry Repetition Lancaster Ordnance Accessories and Willys-Overland Crossley. Their visit, hosted by Willys Overland at Toledo, signals potential future British export expansion as wage pressures shift global production.
North Carolina Democrat and former Democratic leader Representative Kitchen suffered a mild left side paralysis after a speech against the Republican peace resolution. Doctors said he was resting but prognosis and seriousness could not be determined for ten days. this was his second attack.
Mrs. James Carroll Frazer directed a Navy league pageant and ball in Washington on Lincoln's birthday night. The production depicted American history with 600 participants and featured Mrs. Frazer as Mrs. Van Rensselaer in scenes from Dutch settlement of New York.
Willys-Overland announces a new Creasley plant in England to produce thirty thousand cars annually with potential to rise to twenty five thousand by January 1921. The English operation will train in modern production methods and source supplies locally. Strong European orders already exceed the plant’s current yearly capacity.
A compilation notes Wolfskin parchment for banjos, women's suffrage in 21 countries, roasted spiders as a New Caledonia delicacy, and import duties yielding a British profit of over 15 million dollars. It cites Chamberlain and Mrs Blakeney praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Chamberlain's Tablets as cures for cold, cough, constipation, and indigestion.
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