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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1922
Page
3
Community urged to support local businesses to strengthen Athens and its future. A wide list of merchants and services from automobile dealers to safes and banks is highlighted as central to the Buy-at-Home movement, stressing prosperity tied to local shopping and sustained public goodwill.
Management at the Palace Theatre voices pride in Athens efforts to attract visitors by improving highways and welcoming travelers. The speaker highlights recent high class enterprises and a Summer School gathering of 1,900, stressing bonds voters enabled a key infrastructure push and pledges continued citywide hospitality to visitors and country friends alike.
Paddock and Co Piggly Wiggly argues Athens should extend trade territory beyond the Blue Ridge into western North Carolina and into Abbeville and Anderson in South Carolina, then across counties including Lincoln Wilkes Taliaferro Greene Morgan Jasper Walton Newton and Rockdale. The aim is to build a regional market for farmers surplus produce and promote early vegetables year round. The message urges merchants to reach out, educate farmers on cultivation and marketing, and invest in developing the surrounding trade area to benefit Athens merchants and farmers.
Fragmentary OCR lists multiple local businesses including grocers, hardware, electrical, hotels, coal, ice cream, jewelry and street addresses such as COLLEGE AVENUE OCONEE STREETS JACKSON ST WASHINGTON ST 165 EAST CLA. This partial record reflects a midcentury or historic city directory style with scattered company names and locations.
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