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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1911
Page
8
Real estate listings from Erwin & Company and W M Pittman promote insurance and savings on furniture possessions. Lost keys offer a reward from Banner office. Rentals include Cobb Street apartment and 4 room house on Clayton Street plus farms near Bogart. Shoe repairs by Martin Bros and Maz M Hubert with delivery service.
An advertisement from Liverpool Cotton notes rising kidney and bladder troubles and promotes Foley's Kidney Remedy as an effective treatment. It claims quick relief and lasting benefit and states the product is for sale by all the state outlets.
Fire insurance and real estate ads for Lipscomb and Co. promote cheap policies while Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest. Rentals list a 4 room cottage on N Finley St and boarder requests at 115 Hancock Ave. Moler Barber College seeks men to learn the trade with pay up to 20 dollars weekly. Hack service advertises reliable night hacks and compensation for damage.
Atlanta officials report the Savannah Chamber of Commerce and agricultural committee allocated 1000 to back Chatham County’s Georgia Exhibit at the Chicago Land Show. Although Chatham’s share in the statewide fund is 350, the group aims to have a local representative and distribute literature on Georgia’s seaport and trucking capabilities. Joseph F Gray calls the exhibit a cheap, direct community advertisement with clear benefits.
Yesterday's ball games listed with scores for Atlanta Nashville and Chattanooga. Umpires named for each game and notes of batteries and officials. No Memphis Birmingham game scheduled.
Atlanta August 18 announcement from Governor Smith's office states Jesse E. Mercer of Fitzgerald will be the first state game warden under the new fish and game law. Mercer, editor of the Fitzgerald Enterprise, veteran state legislator, is in his late forties and highly regarded.
The advertisement markets Mason jars automatic sealing jars and rubber jar tops with prompt delivery. It also promotes a full line of China and table glassware plus enamel tin aluminum wooden wares for the housekeeper, claiming the most varied line in Athens and inviting wholesale and retail orders.
Riverside cadets about forty strong under Captain Anderson depart Gainesville on No 12 to Tallulah Falls for Camp Grady as Riverside summer session winds down. A marching detail of ten travels sixty miles yesterday. Dr. McCoy joins the group.
Greensboro Georgia reports that Union Point has seen two new banks in 30 days with Farmers' Bank led by John D. Walker of Sparta and a third bank named Our Bank capitalized at $25,000. Fifteen dollars of its capital has already been paid in.
In Chicago Philadelphia drops 7 to 5 after a late rally while Detroit defeats Boston 9 to 3. The games featured multiple pitcher changes and lineup shuffles as Morgan Thomas Scott and Payne worked for Philadelphia and Kellaley Nagle Corrigan Willettes Stanage paired for Detroit.
A dated advertisement claims Foley Kidney Pills ease backache headache nervousness loss of appetite and insomnia caused by kidney and bladder problems. It urges women not to overlook the remedy and promises quick relief and renewed health.
Pawtucket R I August 18 The J and P Coats Company big plant will shut down at close of business tomorrow and not resume for at least four weeks. Twenty six hundred employees will be out of work temporarily due to lack of orders.
Outfielder Biltz of Peoria leads the Three I circuit in hitting while Dale, once with Boston and Providence, returns to Dallas in the Texas league. Berghammer of Kewanee is sold to the Chicago White Sox and Zeke Wilson joins Virginia as an umpire staff addition. White Sox exercise option on Beumiller. Giants manager McGraw reportedly paid 4000 for Burnts. Wolfgang of Lowell wins 22 of 26 and heads to the St Louis Browns. St John Marathoners lead the Provincial league in New Brunswick.
The New Cafe at College avenue and Broad street offers first class ice cream, soda, candies, cigars and tobacco. Ladies invited to inspect. Cleanliness is motto. Located under the Commercial Hotel. P. N. Chilms, proprietor.
Buffalo man Paul Mathulka says he always keeps at home Dr King's New Life Pills for constipation headache indigestion and dyspepsia. They cost 25 cents and are available at W. J. Smith & Bro. and H. R. Palmer & Sons.
California day marked the Astoria centennial with several hundred visitors from San Francisco and other California cities taking part representing local commercial bodies.
At the Eighth Congressional District Medical Association gathering in Washington Wilkes county doctors reported fifty pellagra cases with only two men among them. Experts said no current remedies suffice and called for further data to study prevention and treatment.
A Banner office operator ignores a blazing house nearby as a wind storm and rain rage. A fire alarm signals box twenty three but he continues typing until twelve. The blaze is caused by soot and a stove full of paper from the kitchen flue.
A train wreck five miles east of Lumberton NC injured fourteen passengers and killed Miss Bessie Jones of Montgomery Alabama. Officials say extreme heat caused a kinked rail. Mr DuPree Hunnicutt of this city suffered slight injuries. Seaboard Air Line Train 40 derailed while en route to Wrightsville Beach.
Manager Mike Kelly of St Paul sold O Toole to Pittsburg for 25000. The Bull sign in Jackson Miss park has been hit eight times this season and Cotton States league players have drawn 400 for the stunt. Earl Moseley was sold for 4000, a record price for a pitcher in Ohio and Pennsylvania leagues. Miller players from Montreal and Atlanta were bought by major league clubs. Harry Truby umpired in Mountain State League and clashed with a player, telling him to sit down and that he could throw rocks while taking buns and running him out.
An ordinary case of diarrhoea can be cured by a single dose of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This remedy has no superior for bowel complaints. For sale by all dealers.
Dialogue from a Woman's Home Companion piece contrasts poor audience applause with strong vocal projection in the new venue. A mistress scolds Bridget over silver and steel knife misplacement, highlighting domestic tensions.
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