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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1911
Page
8
A compact list of classified notices and ads from Savannah includes real estate offerings and rents on Cobb Street and Jet corner lot sales, shoe repairs, and furniture deals. It also promotes adding machines and typewriters services, piano sale, and Universal Percolator coffee makers, plus job inquiries for street car Motormen or Conductors.
H R Palmer and Sons offer Parisian Sage with a money back guarantee if it does not stop falling hair and itching scalp or end dandruff within two weeks. The Banner reader is promised proof of the claim.
The ad touts Parisian Sage now sold in America as a powerful hair growth aid that nourishes roots, revives dull hair, and kills dandruff germs. Marketed to refined women, the product features a girl with auburn hair on every bottle and is priced at 50 cents at H. R. Palmer & Sons and other druggists.
A collage of local notices and ads. Lipscomb & Co promotes cheap insurance and real estate services. The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on deposits from 81.00 with biannual compounding. Other items include piano tuning deals, Bludwine beverages, hack services by Cook, job and board requests, farm animal offers, Wear-Ever aluminum, Gainesville and Athens property for sale, Kalamazoo celery, poultry supplies, and employment inquiries.
A new ladies waiting room has been prepared by Martin Brothers on Clayton street, one of the first of its kind in the state and first in this region. Ladies may wait in privacy and comfort while shoes are repaired, promising increased patronage for Martin Brothers.
Bethlehem Georgia on August 24 reports an educational rally scheduled for September 2 inviting all interested in higher education to attend with well filled baskets. Prominent speakers include Hon John J Nunnally Commissioner R L Paine Judge R B Russell and Col John B Gamble of Athens. The event aims to stimulate local educational interests.
Atlanta letters report strong support for former Governor Joseph M Brown to run for the unexpired governor term. Close allies say he may announce once a vacancy appears, despite no formal declaration. Letters from Georgia counties praise his leadership and urge him to enter the race, with several messengers claiming solid support in Hoke Smith allies and South Georgia.
When you need lime for building or sanitary use phone your order. Special low prices on large lots. We handle Portland Cement wall plaster calcium for tinting, ready mixed paint, carriage paint, White Lead Linseed Oil turpentine hard oil varnish stains. See us before buying your paint.
In rural districts a large portion of voters support H. T. Hugkins and Son for a run. In one district nearly the entire electorate signed petitions, with only about ten not joining. Petitions are voluntary, not circulated by paid carriers, and will be presented by a Marietta delegation in the next week or ten days.
A young son of C. D. Flanegan delivered a LeConte pear weighing three quarters of a pound from trees on Prince avenue. The fruit’s remarkable size was noted at the home of Flanegan, general manager of the Athens Railway and Electric Company.
Lawrenceville Georgia August 23 1911 Hon C A Nix announces his candidacy for Solicitor General of the Western Circuit subject to the Democratic Primary next year He will make a formal announcement at the proper time avoiding a heated campaign due to the yearlong election and busy season ahead He will then conduct a thorough canvass of the circuit seeking voter support from Gwinnett and neighboring counties
The Walton County August term of the superior court opens with Hon. Chas. H. Brand presiding. His grand jury charge denounces letters threatening landowners for employing black labor and declares them violations of state and federal law. Dockets are heavy. two weeks may be needed to clear them. Foreman John T. Robertson leads a diligent grand jury with notable general presentments ahead.
Sportsmen increasingly enjoy dove shoots with daily excursions from the city to test their luck in slaying birds. Official tallies on how many dozens each hunter bags in a single afternoon will start to arrive in a few days.
Yesterday Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Washington teams faced rainouts amid Atlanta wins over Birmingham in two games. Birmingham lost twice to Atlanta at Birmingham and Mobile hosted Nashville. Montgomery saw Chattanooga beat them, while New Orleans beat Memphis in a 152 game with eleven innings in Mobile Nashville.
The Habersham County Bar resolves to thank David W. Meadow for presiding over the August term of Habersham Superior Court in 1911 during the disqualified J. B Jones. The resolutions praise his able and impartial handling of cases and will be entered in the court minutes.
Card of thanks from H M Thomas expressing gratitude to friends for support after the death of Dr D A N Thomas. Athens August 24. An ordinary case of diarrhoea can be cured by a single dose of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and is sold by all dealers.
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