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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1910
Page
8
Hilester's weekly cotton statement shows week in sight 604,968 bales with year to date 6,222,019 bales. Overland weekly 54,077 bales and year to date 359,973 bales. Southern consumption 65,000 bales. Comparisons list last year and year prior.
Private bids invited for the stock of F M Hailey bankrupt including hardware locks stores mill machinery and supplies. Sale of full stock or in bulk at Hon Frank L Upson referee in bankruptcy on December 16 1910 at 4 pm in his office Athens Georgia. Also notes and accounts of the bankrupt offered. Call or write B S Price Trustee Athens Ga.
Mr. R L Callaway reports progress on the Atlanta and Carolina Electric Road from Atlanta toward Athens Washington and beyond with work ready to begin and grading already done to the Soldiers' Home. Prompt cooperation from local residents is urged to secure right of way and speed construction and stock shares are available through Callaway as a director. Lexington Oglethorpe Echo.
A. Schingeck of Buffalo reports the pills cured chronic constipation after other remedies failed and claims relief for biliousness jaundice indigestion headaches chills malaria and debility. Pills cost 25 cents at W. J. Smith & Bro and H. R. Palmer & Sons. Also notes Chamberlain’s Liniment can treat sprains in three to four days and is widely sold.
Davison Nicholson Co offers a special sale this day on tailored suits and coats with prices at 10, 15 and 25 dollars. Ladies cloaks and children's cloaks are also on sale with coats listed at 5 dollars for items worth 10 to 15 dollars. New shipments of children's, misses and ladies suits are included in the sale.
Congressman W. M. Howard will end his term as representative of Georgia's Eighth District and return to law in Lexington. The Echo reports Lexington will not lose his family. he has secured offices over Mathews & Brooks and will resume practice after Congress. Neighbors and friends greet the plan with relief and confidence in his success.
Early notes advertise a broad stock of holiday merchandise including boys wagons velocipedes tricycles hobby horses doll carriages wheelbarrows toy trains stoves and mechanical toys. Also a wide selection of dolls china glass and bisque items for holiday and wedding gifts with wholesale toy lots available. Inspect the line for selection and storage options.
The item notes Prima Donna in The Arcadians at the Colonial on Wednesday December 14. It then surveys political developments including Lynn Massachusetts adopting a commission plan, Johnson’s record governor vote in California, and various 1912 presidential and senate prospects with references to Wilson and Bryan. It lists figures like Hiram Johnson, Eugene Hale, Woodrow Wilson, and Martin W. Littleton.
A patchwork page lists fire and real estate ads, rental notices, a toy sale announcement, tax collection reminders, and a long witty ode about growing old. It also reports Census figures for Virginia and California and promotes coal, glass, and dyeing services. The tone is a busy small-town classified column with scattered urban notices.
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