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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1911
Page
6
Readable text describes skirts in khaki linen linine and checks in white tan navy and black with panel back and front. New styles for home or outing wear offered at 50 cents, a value well below the 1.50 to 2.50 range. Limited stock while they last.
About a dozen new batiste and cotton foulard dresses trimmed and well made now 1.50. Former prices 3.75 to 5.00. Also zephyr gingham dresses in two dozen pieces, fast colors, value up to 2.50. Choice 2.50.
A historical ad notes gauze hose priced at 10 cents, valuing each as 15 cents. It lists three pairs of men's gauze hose at 50 cents total, with a value of 25 cents per pair. Three pairs of men's silk hose priced at 1.00, valued at 50 cents per pair.
Bargains headline a wash goods sale with quot 25c quot voiles and swisses and 15c printed batiste. The notice touts values as the greatest yet offered with a closing out offer on per gal 2 lawns challies ginghams calicoes and cotton foulards worth up to 12 12c. Choice of lot 5c.
A newspaper ad promotes extra large duck and damask towels sold at 25 cents with plain hemstitch and fringe options in white or colored borders. Values range from 35 to 50 cents, now offered at 25 cents.
An advertisement touts all linen Huck towels offered at 15 cents each, claiming it as the best towel value with large size and extra heaviness. Bleached grass towel described, noting a 20 cent value previously and reduced to 15 cents.
Three silk item sales list discounts. Foulards offered at 50c from 1.00, wash silks at 25c from 39c and 50c, and foulards plus habutais at 29c from 50c.
A twelve month old child of Mr and Mrs Earl Whitehead on Lumpkin street was struck by a horse and wagon. The incident occurred near dusk on Wednesday as the baby played in front of the father's store. The horse hoofs grazed the body and the wheel passed over the leg, drawing blood from the nose and leaving the limb limp. Mrs Ada Couch, a bystander in a buggy, expressed regret. the child, though feared fatally injured, showed signs of recovery the following morning.
Gainesville, Aug 24. W A Neal & Son of Atlanta will build about 75 miles of roads in Hall County as testing grounds for their machinery. They will demonstrate machines at work while crews operate scrapers plows and engines. Hall County Commissioners provide gasoline and four assistants. Citizens from surrounding counties will view the progress and see the machines in action. The project aims to secure better roads at little to no cost to the county and advertise the company’s machinery.
A new ice cream parlor and candy shop near the Commercial Hotel promises first class service with a soda fountain and tobacco products. Ladies are invited to inspect the clean, up-to-date shop run by P. N. Chilms, with cleanliness as a motto. A Des Moines woman reportedly found relief after two days of bowel distress with one dose of Chamberlain's Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy, sold by all dealers.
Sydney August 24 The Federal parliament prepares to assemble next week for a historic session with no constitutional amendments in the program yet. Government aims to introduce a Commonwealth banking bill currency reform measures unify bankruptcy law amend arbitration and electoral acts and outline governance for the Northern Territory and a transcontinental railway spanning the continent from east to west.
University of Georgia faculty and instructors are back in Athens from extensive summer trips. Carried by names like White, McPherson, Soule, Campbell, Bocock, DeLoach, Davenport, Brooks, Duncan Burnett, Wooster, Sanford, Fan, Jarnigan, Morris, John Morris, Black, Park, McWhorter, Hendren, Stephens, Payne, Lustrat, Barrow, Snelling, Strahan, and Wilson, they toured Canada, Ireland, Virginia, the North, Georgia, Wisconsin, Arkansas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and to Rabun Gap while extending agricultural outreach across the state.
Jim Adams, a thirteen year old boy described as a habitual thief, was sent to the state reformatory. He earlier stole two fine blooded hens from Mr Newton on College Avenue and sold them to Newton's store, with the merchant identifying the birds just as they were delivered.
John Brannon and another man Moss were arrested for disorderly conduct. The mayor and justice of the peace tried Brannon and Moss simultaneously, finding Brannon guilty and fining both men. Brannon was later remanded to the county jail after additional fines totaling fifty dollars and a bound over to city court for stabbing.
At Fore River Shipbuilding Company Quincy announced preparations for the launch of the Rivadavia, 685 feet long and displacing 27,500 tons, twin to the Moreno under construction in Camden. The ships will mount twelve 12 inch guns in six turrets. Although built for Argentina, rumors say they may later be sold to another nation.
The Western Pacific road on August 24 announced a tariff cut on fruit shipments from California to the Black Hills region, including key distributing points in Wyoming Nebraska and South Dakota. The move lowers rates for citrus and deciduous fruits, aiding freight customers and affecting regional trade dynamics.
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