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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1915
Page
8
Mixed notices and ads show services products and job leads. Athens merchants promote Pure and sweet foods and oil products while rooms for rent and loan offers appear. Cookery contest invites submissions with cash prizes in 1915 Georgian newspaper listings.
Short notes promote the Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest on deposits with semiannual compounding. Also listed are rental notices for a 6 room Davenport home and a Nice cottage on Pope Street, plus a 5 1 apartment near the Normal School. A milk cow is requested from Jucy Cobb Institute. An unrelated column jokes about tie matching hair, and a Pennsylvania Railroad report notes locomotives traveling 4 2 million miles and 498 thousand trains moved over five years.
Atlanta business leaders form a $10,000 campaign to suspend the interstate commerce commission tariffs set to take effect January 1. The effort targets ruling changes, possible injunctions, and argues Georgia cities will be harmed by the longer haul rate schedule, with Atlanta facing higher first class and overall costs compared to Macon Savannah and Augusta.
H T Huggins and Son promote a large holiday assortment including dolls from 5c to 8.00 each and toys from 5c to 4.50 plus 50c. They offer wholesale and retail options with items like wagons velocipedes autos wheel barrows and more. Also advertised are china dinner sets lamps and other suitable Xmas gifts with open stock and made up options.
Washington November 30 The Southern Railway Company runs a school of student apprentices drawn from Southern universities. The program, a postgraduate course in overalls, offers practical rail maintenance experience from section laborer to road master with potential promotion through supervisor to roadmaster. Selection favors those who paid part of college costs, with modest starting pay and hardship tests to prove stamina.
The Clarke County Sunday School Convention led by Rev. Troy Beatty meets at Winterville Methodist Church December 9 10. It outlines sessions with speakers from North Avenue Presbyterian Atlanta and Tabernacle Baptist Atlanta plus practical talks on doubling attendance and church cooperation. The notice urges all Clarke County Sunday schools to attend and cooperate across denominations.
The Ellis Athens lodge calls all officers to an important meeting this evening at 8 30 to finalize memorial exercises next Sunday afternoon and arrange other business.
The City Missionary Board will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday at 11 o'clock at the home of Mrs A S Parker on Prince Avenue. A note mentions vacancies may arise during the session. The Southern Railway reports thirteen student apprentices employed, seven promoted to assistant supervisors, highlighting this career progress within the company.
Oyster Bay November 30 Theodore Roosevelt announced he asked Nebraska secretary of state to withdraw his name from the Republican ballot to be used in the upcoming Nebraska primary.
Banner’s Special Correspondence from Atlanta reports Col. W O Dean of Monroe will run for solicitor general of the Western Circuit. The incumbent John B Gamble and Col. Cooley have also announced campaigns for the office.
New Orleans reports Louisiana national guardsmen seized a number of slot machines found in an outhouse adjoining a balloon at Amesville near Gretna. No arrests were made.
Chancell or Barrow of the University of Georgia will address Agnes Scott College students at 7 30 PM in the chapel on Wednesday night The public is invited to attend. Also Crawford chapter of the Children of the Confederacy meets at Mrs Crawford s Hill Street home at 4 o clock sharp with members urged to be present for special business.
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