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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1914
Page
8
The Acnena Savings Bank in Athens advertises 4 cent interest on savings deposits compounded semiannually on January 1 and July 1, with deposits accepted from $1.00. The notice urges forming the saving habit and mentions additional local offerings.
A compact classified snippet rushes through Broad Street promotions for fire insurance division, coffee brand Jockey Club Coffee, milk delivery, and a grocery offer. It includes a lost long haired French poodle Fritz reward notice, job ads for agents and salesmen, a room and board purchase, and a home ground meal product at O’Farrell Cash Grocery Co with contact numbers.
Boston April 16. Charles S. Mellen former president of the New Haven system may become the active head of a federated body uniting two million railroad employees. He praised labor organizations in a speech to Boston and Maine Railroad employees and expressed the wish to lead railroad groups.
The Georgia Railroad Commission ordered Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway to explain compliance with engine cinder detectors by May 1. The commission also asks why the one cent charge for paper drinking cups should not be removed so cups become free. New order revamps schedules between Atlanta and Augusta with four faster daytime trains and cuts several small-station stops.
Indictments were voted against Harry V. Whipple Samuel Hemingway Edward I. Field and Samuel Morehouse all of New Haven Conn alleging official ties to the Billard Company through which railroad securities were diverted. The men reportedly refused to testify before the interstate commerce commission last Friday on Billard Company relations. Henry Stoddard counsel for Whipple and Field said they would testify rather than be prosecuted.
Secretary of War Garrison suspends selecting a site for the annual militia encampment for Florida Georgia South Carolina and North Carolina after South Carolina Governor Blease complains he was not consulted about choosing Isle of Pines near Charleston as the encampment location.
Washington April 16 That correspondence with the British government during the Hay-Pauncefote treaty negotiations precludes the idea that American coastwise shipping can be exempted from tolls in the Panama canal. Joseph H Choate then ambassador to London held this view. Taft signing the exemption bill thought it a subsidiary to American shipping and foresaw arbitration if exemption stood. Senate inter oceanic canals committee heard the matter today.
Robert L. Mathews of Hull Georgia dies at 29 after weeks with Brights disease. Funeral at Pleasant Grove church today at 11 with burial in the churchyard cemetery. Survived by wife Emma and two children, three brothers Aubrey, Berrien, Ferrell, and four Madison county sisters. active member of Odd Fellows and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church.
Advertising copy lists Solid Oak refrigerators with 50 Ib ice capacity at $10.00 and 100 Ib capacities at $16.00 to $17.00. Enamel lined versions priced at $17.00. Promotion notes prices valid for 10 days and offers liberal credit for approved buyers.
New crystal glassware includes large vases in fresh patterns priced 35c to 1.25 each. Ice tea tumblers 1.00 to 1.50 per dozen, table tumblers 0.50 to 1.90 per dozen. Water pitchers 5 to 75 each. Also a line of Snow White All steel refrigerators praised for ice saving and sanitation.
Athens Georgia advertisement for H. T. Huggins and Son located on Broad Street features shop details and contact lines for customers seeking goods in the local market.
The Athens Cotton Exchange will not suspend entirely for summer. A pony service replaces the full continuous wire from May 1, with a private wire formerly used by Mr. White to be cut. Quotations on cotton and other markets will be received every fifteen minutes via regular telegraph lines and delivered by messenger at the exchange.
Life embarrassed and disfigured with pimples eruptions and red rough skin. Just ask your Druggist for Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Mild soothing effective relief or money back. 50c at your Druggist. Adv. Cleans eaten skin.
Opelousas La April 16 At the trial of W C Walters charged with kidnaping Robert Dunbar Mrs C P Dunbar positively identified the child found in Walters possession as her son She said she could not be mistaken
A fragment from the Houston Post frames two rivals contesting not just a marriage but a fortune, noting the heated motive as both seek the same heiress and wealth. The line signals melodramatic taste and a focus on personal ambition behind social schemes.
Atlanta April 16 Hon Jesse E Mercer Georgia editor and former game commissioner discusses W and A central property in Chattanooga. He notes current 35000 dollar monthly rent and predicts efforts to secure an easy bargain while railroads seek to bottle up the state road. He urges separate leases and aims for about one million dollars yearly rental.
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