Short Notes of Interest and Local Ads
Advertisements offer caution about responding to personal addresses in ads in The Banner. Items include Lipscomb's Specialty-Insurance, Jester fire insurance option, Georgianne Cooking Oil claims, sale of pure oils by Athens merchants. Rentals listed for eight to ten rooms, Hancock Avenue, Hunter Heights, Milledge area, furnished or unfurnished rooms, and a range of farm and house notices. Also buying old auto tires and tubes by Athens Hide & Rubber Co.
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Athens
Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent savings
Bank advertises 4 per cent interest compounded semiannually on deposits from 1.00, with lending on farm lands. Contacts A. H. Davenport for savings, and notices also include a corset ad, stock sale, automobile for sale, found cow, dancing classes, rental listing, a tutoring school, and a hat sale at Mrs. Burch in Holman Building.
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Bank IN
Athens
Athens Savings Bank
Composition of the Carrot Analysis
The article notes that carrots are mostly water at 86 percent with nearly 6 percent sugar as their principal dietary substance. It mentions small amounts of starch and albumen. Ancient times used carrot seeds as internal medicine against serpent bites and to treat stung animals.
Denial Catholics give divided allegiance denied by Cardinal
Cardinal O Connell of Boston disputed claims that Catholics in the United States hold divided loyalty and scheme against government addressing the American Federation of Catholic Societies in Madison Square Garden. He defended Catholic fidelity to America, rejecting anti Catholic accusations and praising liberty and religious freedom as core to American life.
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Associated Press
New York
Cardinal O’connell
Boston
Madison Square Garden
Convention of the American Federation of Catholic Societies
America
Europe
Christ
Catholic Federation of America
América
Veterans from Cobb-Delaney camp to attend Georgia Division Reunion
Athens veterans from the Cobb-Delaney camp will travel to Americus for the Georgia Division Reunion this week. A large delegation leaves at 7 40 tomorrow morning, headed by commander F F Griffeth and includes J A Mealor I V Bradberry J J Jennings W B Hosey T Richards and many others.
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Athens
Cobb-Delaney
Georgia
Americus
F. F. Griffeth
W. H. H. Walton
J. A. Mealor
I. V. Bradberry
J. J. Jennings
W. B. Hosey
T. Richards
BE. Bailey
R. J. Williamson
I. H. Donahue
J. L. Smith
E. 4
Ogletree
J. M. Delay
Jim Wright
W. H. McGinty
W. A. Carthers
Lish Bailey
Joe Wood
Tom Bailey
J. H. Montgomery
J. A. Hunnicutt
The Three Godfathers at The Elite Today
In a Bluebird Photoplays program at the Elite today the film The Three Godfathers tells of a mother who dies in childbirth and a desert baby kept by three bandits after a stand storm hides their trail. Peter B Kyne wrote the tale originally in the Saturday Evening Post.
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Mojave Desert
Civilization
Peter B. Kyne
Saturday Evening Post
Bluebird Photoplays
Horace Lorimer
The
Post
Monarch of Weeklies
Bluebird
Strand Presents Hopper Love In Stranded and The Mytery of the Leaping Fish
De Wolf Hopper and Bessie Love headline the Strand program with Anita Loos play Stranded a touching comedy drama about an aging actor and a trapeze actress. Douglass Fairbanks stars in The Mytery of the Leaping Fish a two reel Triangle comedy. Three big names on one program promise a strong feature show for Athens movie fans.
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DE Wolf Hopper
Bessie Love
Triangle
the Strand
Strand
Moving Picture World
Anita Loos
Lloyd Ingraham
Ingraham
Douglass Fairbanks
Wairbanks
Athens
Douglass
Fire Chief McDorman Heads to National Fire Chiefs Meeting
Chief McDorman of Athens fire department leaves Atlanta by special Southern train to Providence for the International Association of Fire Chiefs annual meeting. He has long served as chief since the department’s organization, and remains the nation’s longest tenured city paid chief at nearly fifty.
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McDorman
Ted Athens Fire, Department
Atlanta
Southern Fire
Southern
Southern Railroad
Providence
R. I
National Association of Fire Chiefs
Pennsylvania
New York
New Haven
Washington
Baltimore
International Association of Fire Chiefs
United States
Wilson renomination notification planned at Shadow Lawn
Chairman Vance McCormick of the democratic national committee and Governor Fielder of New Jersey completed arrangements to notify President Wilson of his renomination at Shadow Lawn Long Branch New Jersey on September 2 Invitations issued to 5000 and accommodations made for 10000 attendees
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Associated Press
New York
Vance McCormick
Democratic National Committee
Fielder
New Jersey
Wilson
Shadow Lawn
Long Branch
City Hall Desk Duty Returns After Rheumatism Slump
Officer Flournoy comes back on duty at city hall replacing Desk Sergeant Charles W. Heard who is away on vacation this week. The note ends with a religious reflection praising the kingdom of God.
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Flournoy
Charles W. Heard
Sale of Model Poultry Farm assets in Madison County Georgia
By order of Madison County Superior Court a sale of Model Poultry Farm assets will occur in Colbert Georgia on September 1 1916. Items include 640 White Leghorn hens 40 cocks a pumping outfit a bone crusher a feed mill and more with sealed bids for 6000 Candee Incubator to be court confirmed. Receiver John T Murray reserves right to reject bids.
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Georgia
Madison County
Superior Court
Colbert
Model Poultry Farm
S. C
How the War Has Affected Business
Special to the Banner reports on a Commerce Department study of wartime impact across nations including the United States Canada England France Germany Austria Hungary Italy Russia Spain Sweden Argentina Brazil Australia British India British South Africa Egypt and Japan. The piece notes a prewar decline in activity post July 1914 a muted low in neutral countries and a delayed upturn in belligerents with the US showing a strong rise by April 1916 supported by imports exports gold railways bank clears and production figures.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
Senator Simmons
Senate Committee On Finance
United States
Canada
England
France
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Argentina
Brazil
Australia
British India
British South Africa
Egypt
Japan
Bringing Up Father in Politics heads to Colonial
William Garen advance representative of Bringing up Father in Politics arrives in the city to promote the play. The Colonial opens the regular theatrical season with the Mc Manus cartoon production directed by Gus Hill. The show comes to town on the 31st of this month.
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William Garen
Colonial
Mc- Manus
Gus Hill
Everybody to His Taste in Dog Breeds and Pedigree
Different tastes favor various dog breeds and purposes. The buyer should insist on a pedigree to ensure proper breeding, noninbreeding, and a dog with a good future. Although pricier, such a dog can compete at kennel shows and improve local standards.
Thought He Had Fleas
Thought he felt fleas while walking with his papa five year old George said he itched from under wear and asked if he had fleas. papa replied asking what made him think so. George answered that dogs scratch so people say they have fleas and hence he was scratching.
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George
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G. Dearing
Jr. D. Bradwell
Clarke
Lipscomb
Insurance
J. C. Jester
Hunter Heights
A. H. Davison
Eodtt
Hancock Avenue
Milledge
H. E. Fellows
Greene County
Dozier & Catussutf
An &Room
Oretty
A. H. Davenport
J. L. Morris
Lumpkin St
P. O. Box
National Automobile
Bath
University Drive
W. J. Russell
Ten Cent
McClure Ten Cent Co
Crucedale
J. T. Anderson
College Avenue
Castoria
Milledge Avenue
D. G. Anderson & Co. Real Estate
Ens, GA
Athens Engineering Company
West
Clayton Street
van Deadwyler
R. L. Cauthen
Ralph Walker
Mgr
Cobb-Delony
Lipscomb & Co
Fire Ins
Frank A. Lipscomb
Harry DC. Carey
the Elite Today
Three Godfathers
D'Wolf Hopper
Sale Poultry Farm
John T. Murray
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