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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1911
Page
2
Erwin and Company provide short notes on real estate and fire insurance offerings. Notices mention auctions, a pasture with water and shade for rent, and various Paint and hardware advertisements from Bondurant Hardware Co. plus a land sale corner of Lumpkin and Hoyt Streets. Other items include a 10 percent August discount on typewriters from McGregor Co and lost or wanted notices for clothing, a 4 to 5 room apartment, and shoe repair services.
A collage of small ads and notices from Athens area including Lipscomb & Co insurance and savings bank rates, rental and sale listings on Franklin and Prince avenues, college trade courses, and a medical ad for Foley Kidney Pills with a testimonial from E M Stewart in Chicago.
The cotton market on August 7 opened quietly with prices 7 to 13 points higher on light offerings. Bear activity aimed to push prices down while private crop news remained bearish. Liverpool market was closed for a holiday, but buyers absorbed offerings, giving a firmer overall tone amid rising damage reports.
Atlanta reports Judge Whipple of the Cordele court will retire permanently from the bench. His resignation is believed to be in Governor Smiths hands with several lawyers vying to fill the vacancy left by the Cordele jurist.
Lot summaries describe four tracts totaling about 524 acres with varied cultivation, timber, and housing. Lot 1 141.8 acres. Lot 2 76 acres. Lot 3 154.4 acres. Lot 4 131.8 acres. Properties on roads from Arnoldsville to Lexington and Winterville provide multiple houses, barns, and water access. H. C. Anderson, Athens and Winterville, Ga. Also an advert for D D D eczema treatment by H R Palmer & Sons Prince Avenue Pharmacy.
Atlanta August 7 The re apportionment sub committee on redistricting the state into twelve congressional districts met this afternoon and organized It will report a plan in a day or two Representative DuBose of Clarke from the Eighth is named There are few changes and Greene county would move from the Eighth to the Fifth district. Lost time means lost pay says a Streator Ill man Kidney trouble and relief after Foley Kidney Pills touted as tonic and fast acting by a local user.
The National Association of Sheet Metal Contractors holds its annual convention in Omaha Nebraska with wide city and nationwide representation. An exhibition of sheet metal goods runs at the Auditorium and features lectures by H M Taylor on tin roofs and Charles Prizer on furnaces as sessions run through Friday.
An advertisement features Hem-Rold tablets by Dr. Leonhardt claiming internal cure for piles with a money back guarantee. It also promotes Foley Kidney Pills, touting quick results for kidney and bladder trouble and urging readers to buy from druggists and Palmer's.
Thos Ariss of Concord Michigan testifies 30 years use of Dr Kings New Discovery as the best cough and cold cure. The ad praises the product as a universal lung medicine for lagrippe asthma hay fever croup quinsy or sore lungs. It notes price 50c and 1.00 with a trial bottle free and guarantees by W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Sons.
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