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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1911
Page
8
Classified items show real estate for rent and sale, repairs, furniture, shoes, and small services. Notable names include Jester, Pittman, Langston, Haughey, Paule, and McGregor Co. Ads mention Cobb Street apartment, 4 room house, phone numbers, and a coffee percolator promotion.
Local paper ads list services and sales: insurance options from Lipscomb & Co and Lipsensem & Co promising best rates. Athens Savings Bank advertising 4 percent interest and deposits from $1. piano tuning by Emil Walter at phone 585. Moler Barber College seeking apprentices with up to $20 weekly wages. Bludwine soda marketed in bottles and crowds. Cop names like Cook the Hackman offering night hacks. shipping clerk job inquiry to Banner. rubber stamps and office supplies via R Crowe. Georgia Loan Co advertising loans. Universal Percolator claims best coffee value. estate sale near Hancock Ave. 3s sale of baby grand piano via P O Box 30.
Bargain sale of six acres with running water a new five room house a good barn and pasture offered by W R Sorrels of Barberville at 251 Madison Avenue. Quick sale price set at 2200 with interested parties urged to contact by phone 1094.
For rent, barber shop rooms under Erwin and Co. Apply by September 1 to M. G. Nicholson for details.
The New Eagle Cafe furnishes regular breakfasts dinners and suppers daily with special suppers Sundays 6 30 to 8 30. Coffee tea or milk provided with all meals during week.
In Jefferson and Jackson counties supporters circulate a plan to back Speaker John N. Holder for Georgia governor. A circular invites residents to meet the 5 o'clock train in Jefferson on Wednesday to welcome and support Holder, with music and a cordial gathering. Judge R B Russell also resides in Jackson, making two county men potential candidates.
Twelve to five score highlights yesterday's slate with Atlanta prevailing over Montgomery by 12 to 5 while Detroit Tigers, associated with Ty Cobb, were routed. Philadelphia split a doubleheader with mixed results as other city matchups in Mobile Birmingham New Orleans and Nashville produced varied outcomes. Umpires included Pfenninger Fitzsimons Hart Rudderham Cauliflower and Kellum.
The New Cafe at College avenue and Broad street debuts as a first class ice cream parlor with soda fountain candies and tobacco. Ladies invited to inspect. Emphasizes cleanliness and up-to-date offerings. Proprietor P N Chilms.
Advertisement-style notice offering lime, Portland cement, wall plaster, calcium for tinting walls, ready mixed paint for houses barns roofs carriage paint and finishes like white lead linseed oil turpentine hard oil varnish stains. Urges readers to see the supplier before buying paint.
Bernstein Brothers opens the city’s only four story building on lower Broad with 27000 square feet and a heavy front iron beam raised by railroad tires. The cream brick front, electric elevator and sidetrack promise further upscale development on the street. Rev J A Bell, longtime Gainesville pastor, visits Athens and recalls the Gainesville Military Institute as forerunner of Riverside Military and Naval Academy. Dan Conlan invited to Father Gunn consecration in Atlanta with witness open to non Catholics. Frank Jackson reports a rabbit ear cat at Bostwick and Delta Tau Delta’s Karnea in Chicago aims to revive the Georgia Beta Alpha charter with Rufus Crane and local alumni backing the effort. Rev Sherman England returns as pastor.
Insurance and real estate firm Lipscombe and Company warns that all policies include a Lightning Clause. Clients are advised to confirm this important addition to their policy. Phone contact provided for inquiries and policy reviews.
A crime era parable describes how in some cities officers use a practice called grazing out to place a young colored boy with a rural employer. A police captain and a sergeant arrange for the boy to be diverted from suspicion to a job, rewarding the officer who facilitates the arrangement. The piece ends with the men realizing their control over the boy's labor is being challenged.
The Young Harris Memorial Methodist church pastor returns from a three week summer conference for Sunday school workers and Bible students. He plans to deliver inspiration messages to his congregation and will lead the mid week prayer service tonight. Judge Wingfield, county official, has come back from Atlanta and nearby Points after a brief vacation. He will soon depart again for Wilkes county. Joe O'Farrell will oversee the office in his absence.
Governor Smith vetoed the general assembly resolution to create a three member Western and Atlantic railroad commission and a five member house contingent. The Atlanta charter bill was signed and will take effect after a September popular vote. A $200 reward was offered by Governor Smith for each arrest and conviction of the Lithonia granite plant arsonists, following a $1,000 Georgia Granite Co reward.
A Pittsburg Post snippet quotes a child misidentifying Cinderella as a musical character, illustrating changing childhood perceptions. It also reports Giants Chief Meyers criticizing Pitcher McIntyre’s spitball, joking about wearing a rubber weld when facing the Cubs pitcher.
The tonic Root Juice is advertised as toning soothing and healing the stomach bowels and bladder Invigorating liver and kidneys and claimed to aid debility nervousness stomach troubles kidney affections rheumatism and general breakdown The ad notes quick beneficial results and states it is sold exclusively at this point by H R Palmer Gons.
Wears offers top quality cleaning and up-to-date facilities in Athens. The firm boasts the best crew of workmen and emphasizes clean, neat, modern bathing arrangements for customers.
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