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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1911
Page
5
All new styles plain tailored skirts with panel back and front. Prices range from 1.50 to 2.50 as stock moves to make room for fall goods. Buy now even if not needed until next year. Limited days remain before packing.
A clearance pulls factory textiles off the shelves with all voiles checks stripes dimities plaids organdies and printed batiste priced at 10 cents. One counter full of these great values to select from.
One lot of boys' shirts and blouses with or without collars offered at 25 cents each though sizes are broken. Pick your choice from the lot and save.
A local sale offers all children’s straw hats and caps valued up to 65 cents for 10 cents each.
The ad states 10c muslins and lawns are being closed out at 5c. It highlights a price-only sale story, offering the entire line at half price.
All ladies white parasols in plain and embroidered and lace trimmed to be closed out at half price. All children's parasols valued up to 50c to be closed out at 10c.
One lot of ladies and misses drop stitch hose in black white or tan priced at 25c 35c and 50c. Also 10c three pairs 25c men s gauze lisle hose 50c three pairs 50c men s silk hose 1.00 and 10c for ladies gauze hose worth 15c.
Sale of children’s wash dresses in ginghams percales chambrays and suitings at one third off. Includes pretty styles in sizes 3 to 14 years. Limited quantities remain and many styles still available.
Chicago August report notes Postmaster General Hitchcock will shift second class mail to freight starting September 1. A new weighing of routes will determine payment, with roads fearing cuts to fast mail service and large losses unless rates rise. Separate items cover a Springfield Illinois rail federation, foreign film edits, a new Chicago rail passenger station plan, Wells Fargo Express staff moves to Chicago, and two Athens, Ohio, elderly residents’ deaths.
Dustin Stax announces a new philanthropy concept to found a home for ex Dillionaires who impoverished themselves by donations. The exchange hints at a charitable initiative linking wealth decline with charitable effort.
National Audubon Society leads a broad coalition to protect turtle doves from extermination across the south and southwest. Georgia establishes state game wardens to defend the birds and reduce weed seed spread damaging crops.
A society play by a drug clerk has just been accepted revealing a new dramatist. An exchange over the work notes a curious line about epigrams and a dollar, underscoring the unexpected origin of talent.
A woman recounts an awkward episode at the seashore where she and a young man pretended to be wealthy. She discovers he now lives in their city and collects piano payments, forcing continued face to face meetings.
An ad urges women to try Foley Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder troubles causing backache headache nervousness loss of appetite and poor sleep. The copy claims quick relief and a return to health and strength and warns that no woman can afford to overlook the pills.
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