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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1913
Page
11
Housekeeping Necessaries offers a sales burst with prices on barrell churns alumi num ware enameled onyx ware triple coated items and broad stock. The dealer moves stock to a new building and must reduce inventory offering bargains on china glass earthenware knives forks spoons water coolers filters ice boxes refrigerators and jelly tumblers.
Special to the Banner Watkinsville Ga August 23 Odd Fellows from Athens and other areas gather for the 14th division meeting at Unity Lodge rooms with a detailed two day program including openings addresses welcome messages reports supper and a public meeting at the court house and plans for next year’s convention.
The column notes money market rates for exchange collateral at 2 percent to 2 1 4 percent, time rates varied by term, and high quality collateral required. It foresees general expansion, cautious optimism in stocks, and suggests investment in seasoned securities while citing European tensions as a temporary influence. Public utilities preferred stocks yield 6 to 9 percent with 10 to 20 percent price appreciation expected in two years.
H. T. Huggins and son headline a class discussion on the value of dynamo power. The speaker urges collective effort and practical work toward productive ends.
In Winder Georgia on August 23 the Athletics and Commerce tied 3 to 3 after eleven innings. Foy pitched all nine for Winder allowing five hits and hit safely, while Commerce used Cooper then Sam Edwards. The heavy hitters could not push a deciding run before darkness ended play.
Advertisement urging early painting and warning that delaying increases cost. Cites Devoe paint sold by Talmage Hardware Co with claim of $5 or $6 for paint and labor and that waiting raises both paint and wage costs.
A Snow Hill North Carolina resident, B W Hill, suffered two months with severe dysentery, weight dropping from 145 to 125 pounds, before using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After two bottles, he reports permanent relief and urges others to try the remedy. Also advertises coal pricing and the Athens Ice Co. contact.
A vintage ad claims a one hundred dollar reward for an uncured catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes a testimonial from F. J. Cheney Co of Toledo and a bank reference, asserting the firm's reliability. The cure is described as systemic and sold for 75 cents per bottle with free testimonials.
The Smith building at Clayton street and College avenue and the Huggins building on Broad street debut in September. Tenants include the Athens Banner, Arnold & Abney, E. & Co Sporting Goods, Erwin & Co, and the Athens Engineering Company. The Huggins stock will be moved mid month, with the Crockery stock of H. T. Huggins & Son to follow. Subdivision lots by Georgia Development Co. go on sale in September, and a local furniture factory stock company is being organized. Moss Auditorium leases to Dorsey Furniture Co. for warehouse use.
Rev H Stubenwoll of Allison Iowa lauds Dr King s New Life Pills for constipation calling them perfect pills and a liver and bowel regulator. He notes each pill is guaranteed and urges purchase at W J Smith Bro and H R Palmer Sons priced at 25 cents.
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