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Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Aug 24, 1916

Page

6

Short Notes of Interest Advertisements

A collection of small ads from The Banner featuring insurance pitches Lipscomb's Specialty Insurance and Jester, a claim about Georgianne Cooking Oil saving 33 percent over lard, and local sales by Athens merchants. Rentals listed include 8 room and 6 room houses in Hunter Heights and Hancock avenue, furnished or unfurnished rooms, plus several Greene county farm listings and a 4000.00 loan offer on city property. House near Normal also advertised.

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Banking ad and assorted notices in Athens paper

A collage of local notices includes the Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest on deposits compounded semiannually, farm and city lending, plus various ads for corsets, rentals, Tire buyback, lost pocketbook, farm rent, furnished rooms, second hand stove wanted, syrup sale, stenographer job search, dancing classes at the Elks Club and private lessons at the Georgian hotel.

Bank IN Athens Athens Savings Bank

Good Samaritan Order Begins Foundation for $22,000 Building

The Good Samaritan Order plans a brick three story building on Washington Street beside the Morton Opera House. Costs exceed $22,000 with two stores on ground floor offices upstairs and two large assembly halls on third floor. Dr W H Harris is grand secretary and Rev H Guile serves as grand chief.

Good Samaritan Order Washington Street Morton Opera House Order of the Good Samaritans Athens Iet Order South W. H. Harris H. Guile of Ashburn

Deathbed Confession Names Millionaire Father of Daughters

In Chicago on August 23 Edward W Morrison, an eighty year old multimillionaire recluse, was named as the real father of two girls he recently adopted in U S district court. Husband Joseph Burnstein says his wife confessed on her deathbed that Morrison fathered the girls. Morrison denies the accusation.

Associated Press Chicago Edward W Morrison Landis United States District Court Joseph Burnstein Morrison

William S Hart in The Captive God at the Strand Today

William S Hart stars in The Captive God at the Strand a Triangle drama by Monte M. Katterjohn set in Tehuan Mexico with Hart as a shipwrecked Spaniard who leads the Aztec-ruled community. Enid Markey D. D. Tabler Dorothy Dalton and others support this dramatic spectacle praised for visual richness and Hart’s magnetism.

William S. Hart the Strand God Hart Monte M. Katterjohn Tehuan Mexico Thomas Ince Enid Markey D. D. Tabler Dorothy Dalton Robert McKim Dorcas Matthews Herbert Farjean Robert Kortman W. &. Hart Strand Theater Today

Just the Thing for Diarrhoea Remedy

A Buford North Dakota resident recalls a severe two year ago diarrhoea attack lasting over a week. A druggist recommended Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. the first dose relieved him and within two days he recovered fully. Drugstores widely endorse its reliability and availability.

W. C. Jones Buford N. D Chamberlain

Governor Harris Keeps Pace With Early Campaign Speeches

Special to the Banner reports Governor Harris maintains a brisk itinerary across Atlanta and surrounding areas. He schedules three speeches in a day early in the week and ten speeches in as many towns in the final days, as the gubernatorial race heats up and rivals enter the field.

Atlanta Harrison Harris

Athens Home of Bludwine Expands Bottling

Mr B F Esthridge of Sumter S C visits Athens to finalize a contract for Bludwine bottling rights in Florence South Carolina. He plans a $15000 bottling plant while Greenville and Charleston facilities expand. South Carolina consumes large amounts as Athens promotes the product made locally.

B. F. Esthridge Sumter S. C Athens Florence Esthridge Bludwine Company Greenville South Carolina Charleston Columbia

Baseball scores from across leagues reported

National league results include Washington 4 St Louis 5 in seven innings of the second game, New York 5 Chicago 4, Philadelphia 3 Detroit 10 Boston 7, Cleveland 3. American Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 1 in 16 innings, Chicago 7 Brooklyn 6. Southern Chattanooga 6 Mobile 2, Little Rock 0 Birmingham 0 called end of 8th, Memphis 1 Nashville 2. South Atlantic Columbia 10 Augusta 4, Macon 3 Charleston 8 in 8 innings, Columbus 4 Jacksonville 4, call end Sth due to darkness.

Washington St. Louis New York Chicago Philadelphia Detroit Boston Cleveland Southern Chattanooga Mobile Little Rock Birmingham Memphis Nashville South Atlantic Columbia Augusta Macon Charleston Columbus Jacksonville

For Sale Sixty Acres Near Loganville and Monitored Touring Oratory

Classified notice offers sixty acres of land with a seven room house, out-buildings, six features in Walton county three miles from Loganville, with 26 acres in cultivation and timber to cut 100000 feet. Trade for auto and cash balance. Also contains a campaign schedule noting speeches by a governor candidate across Americus Ellaville Benita Vista Preston Lumpkin Fort Gaines Edison Morgan Dawson Atlanta.

Loganville Walton County Care Banner Americus Ellaville Benita Vista Preston Lumpkin Afernoon Fort Gaines Edison Morgan Dawson Attlanta

Headquarters Row Over Farmers Union Looms in Georgia

Atlanta dispatch reports a public dispute over the State Farmers Union headquarters, claimed by Douglas with $1,700 spent on advertising and subscriptions. The Douglas Chamber seeks answers on funds and a promised move, while Coffee County residents push resolutions condemning the Macon convention’s stance and urging recognition of Douglas as headquarters.

Atlanta State Farmers Union Douglas Douglas Chamber of Commerce Coffee County Union J. J. Brown State Commissioner of Agriculture Farmers Union Chamber of Commerce Brown Coffee County J. H. Mills Jenkinsburg Butts County Georgia Douglas Chambeor Macon State Union Dublin

Fire on East Broad Street Put Out Before Arrived

The fire department was called yesterday morning at 11 to J. L. Holcomb's on East Broad Street. The blaze started from the grate and was extinguished before the fire trucks reached the scene.

J. L. Holcomb’s East Broad Street

Georgia Exhibit Cars Restocked for Five Year Tour

Plans from a conference in Atlanta led by Charles J. Haden authorize re stocking and re equipping Georgia exhibit cars. The fleet will depart November 1 for a five year tour across the east and west to showcase the state's resources, especially agriculture, looping through the middle west to New York and Canada before returning via a southern and western arc forming an S.

Atlanta Charles J. Haden State Chamber of Commerce Georgia Middle West Canadian New York State West New York

Swat the Fly Campaign and Neighbor Anecdotes

A clippings-style piece features a civic like slogan urging fly swatting to curb disease and germs with vivid lines from Mary Canfield in Paris Texas Morning News. It also includes a humorous Life magazine joke about a courteous yet silent neighbor.

Mary Canfield Paris Texas Morning News

Also Mentioned on This Page

M. G. Dearing D. Bradwell Carrie Lipscomb Insurance J. C. Jester Hunter Heights A. H. Davison Eodtt Hancock Avenue Milledge Eodtf H. E. Fellows Greene County Dozier & Co Tu Tate Wright Gathsutts Gracedale J. T. Anderson College Avenue A. H. Davenport J. L. Morris Lumpkin St Milledge Avenue Erwin & Co Athens Hide & Rubber Co Broadway Market Fred Warwick W. H. Jones Lexington Road K. D Banner Jas. W. Morton Athens Engineering Company D. G. Anderson & Co. Real Estate Athens, GA Clayton Street van Deadwyler R. L. Cauthen Ralph Walker Mgr Bludwine National Pittsburgh Brooklyn Lipscomb & Co Frank A, Lipscomb Capitol Gossip Douglas, Ga D. F. McClatchey State Senate McClatchey John M. Graham State Supreme Court Supreme Court Mr. Graham Joseph Ganahl The Civic League
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