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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1910
Page
8
Real estate listings for five room and eight room houses with prices and terms. Fire insurance and home building services offered by Erwin & Company. Advertisements for chafing dishes, coal, wall papers, wood, and various rentals. Also notices for theater matinee and railway travel discounts.
Short items note fire insurance adverts paint stores and coal dealers. J L Arnolds Palot Store offers glass replacement with phone contact 1165. Davison Nicholson Company advertises salesmen and coal at low cash price ring 607. Bondurant's sells nickel plated copper vessels coal vases and heating stoves. Various rental sale and property notices list John Fowler residence two stores brick plant and land near Normal school and Episcopal church.
Classified notice seeks twenty seamstresses for factory service with good salary and twenty five seam stressed to work at home. Steady year round work. Apply at Athens Shirt Mfg Co next to Laundry 133 Clayton St Athens Ga. Also seeks a well digger and blaster at Cooper place near Athens contact Watson Daniel R F D Bogart Ga or C W Cooper Commerce. Tin work services offered by Isd Leathers Ravenson phone 264.
In Bowman Georgia on December 14 J. J. Brown defeated Scott Berryman by twelve votes to win the mayoralty. Councilmen elected were Leonard A. Rice E. R. Goss D. J. Pitts L. R. Rice. L. Rice became recorder and Q. L. Teasley treasurer.
Suggestions FOR: Holiday Gifts for HOUSEKEEPERS include China and Porcelain sets in 25 styles and 100 pieces, Decorated French china sets, Gold band French china, open stock, and chamber sets. Also Rogers silverware, fine lamps, crystal, and decorated glassware. FOR BOYS feature velocipedes, wagons, toys, air rifles, knives, pistols. FOR GIRLS offer dolls, doll carriages, washstand sets, beds, tricycles, toys. See full line.
Griffith Welch Cotton Report from Athens notes middling prices and market activity. An editorial aside warns influenza can lead to pneumonia and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as preventative and curative, claiming it counters pneumonia tendency. Gold is stated as available from all dealers.
An Athens Ga druggist company advertises Vinci Liver and Iron Tonic with testimonials from New Haven and Chicago mothers. They claim improved health, appetite, and strength in frail children after multiple bottle use and offer a money back guarantee if claims fail.
Notice from H C Whatherly Coal Co stating cash only sales with full weight and low prices. They thank patrons and request continued support. Also note a medical claim praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as pneumonia-proof when used early, sold by all dealers.
Felt bedroom slippers offered in black gray wine and brown with ribbon or fur finishes. Prices listed as 1.00 1.25 and 1.50 at Mallory Shoe Store with accessors to Lanier's.
Georgia congressman W. M. Howard named among trustees of a major Carnegie Foundation fund led by Andrew Carnegie. The list includes Elihu Root Nicholas Murray Butler and others across politics and academia, highlighting a vast philanthropic endeavor. A separate column recalls memories of the winter of sixty five with loyalty of enslaved servants who aided families during Civil War hardship.
The report lists casts and upcoming productions including Mabel Barrison in Latu's Husbands and Louis Mann reviving The Man Who Stood Still. Rose Rand joins Bille Burke's company for Susanne, The Avistor stars Wallace Boldinger, Minnie Dupree rehearses The Lady from Oklahoma, Tessie Venner adaptation noted, and Mathilde mentioned in context.
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