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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
8
A collection of small ads from The Banner mentioning insurance offers, property deals, rental inquiries, household goods for sale, and a luncheonette invitation. It includes notices for life income contracts, a local insurance agent, a 7 room rental on Hancock Avenue, a $6 oak sideboard sale, and a country home with outbuildings near the city.
A collection of routine ads includes bank savings offers, rental housing, used tires, a wheel muff invention, and notices for help wanted. The items mention Athens storage and merchants, a fireless cooker, Georgianne Cooking Oil, and a cow notice. Addresses and phone numbers accompany several entries.
Quick sale ads list a Burroughs Adding Machine and a Fox Visible Typewriter for cheap at P O Box 74 Winterville Gast. Also a housing ad for two or more rooms for rent with private family price, P O Box 357. A factory seeks two or more moulders at Bailey Burruss Mfg Co Atlanta Ga offering forty cents per hour with transportation advanced.
An Athens man, J. L. Byrd of 149 Wilkerson Street, cites persistent back pain from pottery work, dizziness, frequent nighttime urination and urinary burning. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills, purchased 50c, with permanent relief and urges others to ask for the same remedy from Foster Milburn & Co. Buffalo NY.
In the Northern District of Georgia Eastern Division Carl Epps of Athens Clarke County Ga was adjudicated bankrupt on December 12 1916. The first meeting of creditors will be held December 23 1916 at 10 oclock in the forenoon at 514 Southern Mutual Building Athens Ga to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct related business. Referee in Bankruptcy Buanton Fortson.
A tobacco era style notice compares a cough to a fire bell and urges curing the underlying illness. It promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective for lingering coughs after colds or flu with a testimonial from Mrs. Thomas Beeching of Andrews Indiana.
Mrs. Nellie Peters Black of Atlanta, president of the Georgia Woman's Federation, visited the Athens Woman's Club at the home of Mrs. A. S. Parker and spoke for about thirty minutes on federation work. A social hour followed with refreshments. The report notes high praise for the Athens Club and lists numerous local residents and guests in the week’s social scene.
Mrs. Carlton of this city has cared for her daughter at home in Augusta for six or seven weeks. Visitors from Hartwell included Mrs. Bertha Dodd Miss Mildred Dodd Mr and Mrs J W Yates and Miss Louise Yates. Also visiting were Mrs Henry Bray and Miss Thelma Bray and Mrs B H Griffith and Miss Clyde Griffith of Arnoldsville.
The Senate postponed final action on the immigration bill to permit committee consideration of the LaFollette amendment to bar those who advocate or teach destruction of property. Passage vote expected tomorrow. Senator Smith said he does not know if President Wilson would veto the bill, though reports claim a veto if a literacy test is included.
A young, inexperienced helper complains to the cook about biscuits, claiming two years of practice and service at eighty nine families with no discharge. She vows to save this apprenticeship for a better place despite the challenge.
Tennyson J. Latt recalls J Puller Gloom paying a compliment to his distinguished ancestor Alfred Tennyson. Gloom reportedly cried out Good Lord upon hearing the claim that Doom is a descendant of Lord Tennyson.
A Birmingham Age-Herald cartoon caption features a cynical man remarking that a woman's work is never done and noting the origin predates women claiming leadership, reflecting early 20th century gender perspectives.
The text notes the first American paper mill started near Philadelphia in 1600, followed by a second in Germantown twenty years later and a third in Delaware four years after that. It says the Delaware mill supplied paper Benjamin Franklin required.
A quote from 1881 shows Professor Huxley telling Lord Farrer that jamming common sense down fools throats may be the keenest pleasure, though dodging brickbats remains the great pleasure to some.
Geologists contend that the oldest land in the world lies in North America. The claim boosts anthropologists who believe North America was the earliest home of the human race.
Instructions suggest wetting the stained area with chloride of lime and rinsing, then treating with ammonia or hyposulphate. This brief note from Popular Science Weekly offers a method to scrub ink marks from fabric or material.
Col Stephen C. Upson, solicitor of Athens city court, is widely named to succeed the late Judge Robert Hodges on the Georgia state court of appeals. Judge George C. Thomas of Athens also figures, as a longtime ally of the veteran governor with forty years of practice and prior county court service.
There will be a regular vestry meeting at Emmanuel church this evening at 8:00 at the home of senior warden Mr. T. H. Nickerson on Hill street. The new rector Rev A. G. Richards of Mobile has accepted the call and will conduct services the first Sunday of the New Year, likely arriving in Athens before then.
Judge C. H. Brand of the Western circuit named George H. Palmer and Charles T. Young as Clarke County registrars. They replace Toombs R. Powell and A. C. Edwards who resignations or absence prompted the change.
The Federal Trade Commission urged newspaper publishers and paper suppliers to attend a meeting in Washington on Friday to consider a relief plan for the news print paper shortage. Full representation by publishers manufacturers and jobbers is deemed essential to the plan's success.
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