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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1915
Page
8
Short notes section lists coupons with cash ads and requests readers to ask for them. Contains ads for fire insurance division, lost fraternity pin reward, rental housing needs near business district, farm land loan contact Tate Wright, and insurance notice J F Shepherd. Also mentions typewriter for sale and rooms for rent with contact details.
Advertisements offer 4 percent interest at The Athens Savings Bank and 6 percent LifeLoans with no commissions. Listings mention Elberta Peaches, apartment needs, a piano exchange for a city lot, a lost set of keys, and a Georgia barbecue every Saturday at Booth’s Store. Also notes for a competent stenographer, a 6-room Davenport rental, and various job and exchange requests.
A quoted remark likens a man who demanded a square deal to one of the maddest men seen, noting he finally got the deal he sought amid a Philadelphia aquirer setting.
In Atlanta on August 12 1915 Secretary of State Philip Cook returns the petition for the North Georgia Mineral Railway Company charter and notes a law prohibiting parallel tracks to the Western and Atlantic line. Spalding King & Co will pursue mandamus to compel charter issuance as a legal battle looms.
The article debates whether the Georgia House of Representatives by refusing to act and passing a statutory amendment has worsened the state’s legal position regarding the W. and A. Railroad. It notes prior court rulings and contemplates the impact of constitutional amendments versus statutory changes on the road’s fate. The piece questions the political maneuvering and its effect on construction.
A 1912 JAMA note discusses calcium based therapy for tuberculosis and its reported improvements. It links calcium assimilation to lesion resolution and sputum clearance, and promotes Eckman’s Alterative as a nonaddictive remedy available via Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
Creditors of J. D. Williams late of the county are notified to present their demands to W. F. Dorsey administrator within the legal time limit. Debtors must pay the estate promptly. Dated July 5 1916.
Mr. Stewart P. Stringfeller, a traffic official of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, accompanied by general commercial agent J. Z. Hoke, was in Athens yesterday for sector business.
The Georgia District Grand Lodge of the Colored Odd Fellows elected officers and chose Macon as the 1916 meeting place. About 2000 delegates attended from 135 counties plus 70,000 members statewide. Odd Fellows City owns 231 acres and related property in Atlanta. The crowd was orderly despite large holiday attendance.
The Clarke County Choir will meet next Sunday at Attica on the Gain Ville Midland railway. Attica lies outside Clarke County, but the group may convene beyond its borders to gain help from Jackson County singers. The choir organized recently at Prospect Church near the county line.
Wheat is described as the most perfect food containing every element of the human system. Whole wheat alone is stated to sustain human life indefinitely.
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