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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1916
Page
9
Short notes of interest include insurance offers fire policy queries and a call to divide fire insurance with J C Jester. Also private student board singer typewriter sale office furniture gas stove and heater second hand furniture and a traveling salesman position seeking strong candidates at J E McBrady Chicago.
Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent savings interest compounded semiannually with deposits from 1.00. Advertises farm and city loans and local merchants for goods including Corsets and cooking oil. Multiple rental notices for houses and rooms on Hunter Heights Hancock Avenue Clayton Street and near car lines. Also sales agents and a lost watch notice with reward offered.
Mrs Emmett Bondurant and her children arrived back home Friday after a trip to Tallulah.
A long list of residents and guests are noted visiting and traveling through Athens. Names include Miss Ethel McConnell Commerce and Miss Ida Colquitt Arnoldville. Several families travel to Detroit Philadelphia and Boston, with social calls with Mrs Wood and Mrs Mell. Many plan returns from Beach Island Clemson and Milwaukee as others move or host gatherings.
A quote from Uncle Eben notes that a person who expects love from their enemies mixes big politics with affection. The passage uses dialect to contrast political expectations with personal loyalties. The remark frames political and emotional loyalties as incompatible or tangled.
Trustees sold the Max Joseph’s Department Store in a bankruptcy sale for a single figure. Arthur Flatau, manager, will lead a public opening Monday August 28 at the Clayton and Wall streets location with a large sales staff ready to sell regardless of value.
Col. M. G. Michael of the Michael Brothers wholesale and retail department store leaves tomorrow for New York. He will study fall and winter goods and inspect advance items for next spring, aiming for about a month away.
Ralph Walker offers a pair of pony mare mules for sale or trade for a good horse or a larger mule. Located at Cauthen's Stable on W Clayton Street with phone 1177.
Atlanta August hearing opens with Merrel Callaway stating Augusta rates will be explained first. Carriers plan to present class rates for Macon and Columbus next, with Gainesville and Savannah routes debated under two line versus one line scales and mileage-based proposals to align Georgia and interstate pricing.
Franklin county attorneys report a heated Northern circuit race for judge with W R Little Hodges and Worley active and a joint debate turning acrimonious. Five candidates compete for solicitor general P W Davis A S Skelton S B Swilling T G Dorough and Dorsey Davis from three counties.
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