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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1906
Page
6
Monday sale from the McClure 10c Company lists carpet slippers at 15 cents, Japanese fans including 15 and 25 cent values, a 36 inch gingham apron sale, embroidery and insertion at 1 1/2 cents per yard, 10 cent oil cloth and children’s muslin skirts worth 25 cents, plus hair and cloth brushes to close out.
The listing offers frames with glass covers, mouse traps, bread boxes, feather dusters, white enamel curtain poles four feet long, galvanized 14 quart pails, heavy pressed glass lamps, tinted china cake plates and berry dishes, oriental decorations, Buster Brown dinnerware, 10c goblets and more at low prices for tomorrow’s sale.
A humorous anecdote from the theatre ticket line describes a well dressed woman and a friend in disagreement with a man smoking nearby. The argument escalates as smoke envelops her, then reveals her husband behind her in line. The piece ends with a quip about the couple's misfortune and a brief joke about digestion and a cough remedy.
Columbus Ga Aug 18 Dr A M Wynne longtime Methodist leader died after years of ill health He joined the Georgia Methodist conference in 1849 served over half a century and spent years as a missionary to California He led St Luke s church in Savannah before the war and later across the South Georgia conference His open Confederate sympathy during the wartime Savannah years drew both praise and controversy The Banner-Leadz notes locally sold Chamberlains remedy and other items with brief anecdotes.
Judge Pendleton’s decree upholding Richmond County and other municipalities in the back taxes case against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. The court ruled the 15000 shares of Western of Alabama stock taxable to Augusta and Richmond, denying mandamus to compel payment and affirming tax situs. Back taxes for 1905 to 1905 were affirmed as due.
A damaged OCR passage pieces together a dated exchange about dating norms and a Catholic perspective. The text switches between lines about not passing ice cream shops with a girl and a woman who insists on going somewhere, ending with unclear attributions.
A collection of pithy maxims on work leisure and social judgment. The piece jokes about luck, wealth, popularity, and irony in human behavior, noting how ambitions and excuses unfold in everyday life. It closes with a reflection on planning marriage and self-restraint.
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