Michael's Hosiery Sale Item Listing
A sale offers hose at 50c and 75c in black and tan lisle and silk. embroidered hose priced at 38c. The listing highlights discounted stockings and varied fabrics for fashion use.
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1911
Page
11
A sale offers hose at 50c and 75c in black and tan lisle and silk. embroidered hose priced at 38c. The listing highlights discounted stockings and varied fabrics for fashion use.
Local advertisement announces a final sale at Michael's Dresses for Misses and Children offering dresses and sailor suits at half price in white or colored options.
Gainesville Depot Agent W D Wheller toured Athens to view growth since his last visit. Dr L B Roper, a leading young physician now at Comer, was in town and named vice president of the Eighth District Medical Society. Prof Harmon of Tifton, long in Gainesville summers, visited Athens to praise South Georgia beauty and value.
The article notes a splendid fair in South Georgia to be held in Tifton this fall, praise for Athens growth and the State College of Agriculture, and mentions Prof. R. T. Dottery returning to direct the Classic City Junior band and later the University’s Georgia Band. It also reports Ed Lattimer planning to return to Athens for business, W. A. Shackelford visiting on business and celebrating a new son, Master John Shackelford, and his invitation to drive in the Glidden tour with his car.
Mr Ezra Samples a hustling drummer whose home is Gainesville and house in St. Louis spent Sunday and yesterday in Athens. Automobiles helped him. Jim Morton Jim Crane and Bob Park returned from a visit to Rev Mrs M L Troutman at their Floyd county farm near Rome. Their trip in Mortons auto faced rough clay roads and a creek where the engine stalled, requiring a pair of mules to pull the car free. Prof San-
Fragmentary OCR shows prices for gowns and related items with figures 7.48 0.2 12.48 17.48 15 1.50 1.88, indicating a list of garment costs or catalog entries without full context or descriptions.
Ford, part of a house party with Dr. Troutman, stops in Marietta and plans a later trip with Mrs. Sanford and the children. R G Kemp departs for Savannah to join Delmonico’s. he will pause in Toombsboro and Irwin county to visit his mother. Rev I Z T Morris from Fort Worth, Texas, visits kin in Athens and praises Texas child rescue work as he observes local changes after a decade.
The Oconee Enterprise reports editor Johnson of Watkinsville visited the city on business, mingling with merchants who draw county trade for advertising. Also noted, Langston from Monroe plans to open a music store on Clayton Street by early September, described as large and genial.
Dahlonega Georgia hosts an annual fiddlers convention with prizes for top fiddler and singing contest. Prizes include five dollars for first, 2.50 for second, and one dollar silver certificate for third. Hon R H Baker delivers welcome, W H Satterfield music, Dr G R Glenn awards prizes, and spelling contest closes the day with cash rewards.
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