Classified Advertisements and Notices From The Banner
Short notes of interest list various advertisements and notices. Items include Lipscomb's Specialty Fire Insurance and Athens Savings Bank offers, piano and phonograph sales, farm rent, tailoring services, pet puppies, coats for large sizes, paper shells pecans, organ sales, Christmas wreaths, battery services, car wash and tires, coal deliveries, job inquiry, health product, Hoover sweeper gift, lost and found notes, and a January 9 1919 board meeting for the Georgia State Board of Embalming with application deadlines.
California Syrup of Figs Advertises Gentle Child Laxative
An 19th or early 20th century style ad touts California Fig Syrup Company laxative for children. It claims to cleanse stomach and bowels, relieve feverishness and sour stomach, and restore playfulness without griping. It warns to demand genuine product and avoid counterfeits.
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Cross
California
California Syrup
C California Fig Syrup Company
A Store With a Heart and a Dollar by the Red Cross
A Michael's store with forty seven employees supports the Red Cross drive. Workers go door to door and in canteens and work rooms, sewing sheets and pillowcases, packing hospital supplies, and raising funds and goods as the war ends. The piece praises the volunteer women and calls the Red Cross the greatest national effort.
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Michael
Mater the Cross Ladies
Fli
Michael's
Red Cross
America
Railroad Executives Seek Quick Return to Private Ownership
A definite proposal urges immediate return of railroads to private control after remedial federal legislation. The plan, drafted by the association of railroad executives, will be submitted to the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee if approved at the association’s December 30 meeting. Executives oppose extending federal control and prefer restoration without further legislation.
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Associated Press
New York
The
Association of Railroad Executives
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Steve Closes at Seven to Allow Girls Rest
The Bueiest store in Athens keeps doors open until seven on Christmas Eve to let girls rest. shoppers note extended hours permit late visits. The store plans to close promptly at seven each evening, ensuring staff rest and readiness for the next day.
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Steve
Athens
Gill
Carl R. Gray Resigns Railway Position
The Associated Press reports Carl R. Gray resigns from the division of operations at the railroad. The resignation takes effect January 1 and was accepted at once.
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Carl R. Gray
iBy Associated Press
Westington
Dre
Carl Roef Paliere
Adainisfeatun
First Methodist Sunday School Nominal Offering Dec 2
The First Methodist Sunday School will take its usual Nominal offering at the ten o'clock service on Sunday December 2. Proceeds go to the Armenians.
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First Methodist Sunday School
Young Harris hosts special Christmas Sunday school program
The Young Harris Memorial church Sunday school plans a seven thirty morning program with a special Christmas music program. Friends of the sunday school and church and the public are invited to attend this service.
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Young Harris
Young Harris Memorial Church
Friends of the
Abolish Seniority Rule in Chair Manships Says Security League
Colonel Chares Lydecker, president of the National Security League, urges abolishing seniority in chairmanships as part of a broader reform agenda. He claims peace does not end subversive activity and calls for changes to national budget processes, congressional committees, and cabinet officer seating in Congress.
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Security League
Associated Press
Washington
Chares Lydecker
Natenal Security League
Paciiy
New Executive Committee Complete
Associated Press reports a new central executive committee completed with most members from the majority backing the cabinet. Several longtime radicals including George Legebour and Dr. August Mueller were removed from the previous executive panel.
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Associated Press
Perdin
George Legebour
Mueller
Fourth Attempt at Aerial Mail Routes
New York Dec 20 The fourth attempt in as many days will be made tomorrow to transport mail from New York to Chicago by airplane the post office authorities announced tonight. Motor trouble alone has caused the earlier failures.
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Associated Press
New York
Chicago
English Fleet to Visit This Country After Peace
London reports the admiralty favors a large part of the British fleet under Admiral Beatty visiting the United States soon after peace is signed. Paris notes President Wilson busy with conferences and final preparations to travel to American HQ and then to England after Christmas. London details await from Paris.
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Associated Press
London
Admiralty
Sir David Beatty
United States
Paris
Who Is to Blame for War Asks Germany
Vienna December 20. The National Assembly of German Austria law adopted a bill ordering the investigation of who is responsible for the war and prescribing proceedings to be taken against its authors.
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Associated Press
Vienna
National Assembly of German Austria
Chas. H. Johnson Acquitted of Murder
Charles Horward Johnson was acquitted by a jury tonight of the charge of murdering Major William R. King a supervising engineer at the Aberdeen proving grounds in Dikton Maryland. The trial ended with the jury delivering a verdict of not guilty after the evidence presented at court.
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Associated Press
Dikton
Charles Horward
Johnson
William R. King
Brooklyn
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
J M Betts Dies In Birmingham
J M Betts of Birmingham Alabama died at his home Friday morning at ten o clock The funeral will be held at Lebanon church Jackson county at four this afternoon He leaves a wife and one brother E B Betts of this city Also survived by three sisters Miss Georgia Betts Athens Mrs J M Lavender Jefferson and Mrs L B Thompson Wrayswood Ga The deceased was well known in Athens and his friends here grieve his untimely death.
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J. M. Betts
Birmingham
Alabama
Lebanon Church
Jackson County
Betts
E. B. Betts
Georgia Betts
Athens
J. M. Lavender
Jefferson
L. 2B.thompson
Colds and Grippe Yield To Calotabs Overnight
Advertisements claim Calotabs cures colds and influenza overnight. One tab at bedtime with water supposedly ends the illness by morning with no nausea or loss of appetite. Sold in sealed packages for thirty five cents. money back if not delighted.
Fight for Millions at Strand Exploits Brave Rescue Scene
The Strand presents the new Vitagraph serial Fight for Millions. Edith Johnson battles the outlaw chief Joe Ryan in a cabin duel and defeats him with a lamp fire. She then rides through dark forests to rescue William Duncan marooned on a rock, aided by Tron Star and a sergeant.
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Strand Today Extra
Vitagraph
Strand
Edith Johnson
Onlaw
Joe Ryan
Foresta
Tron Star
William Duncan
Birth of a Nation dazzles Elite special showing
The Birth of a Nation arrives at the Elite today amid sweeping Civil War and Reconstruction scenes. The production highlights battle vistas and the Ku Klux Klan era as a grand photodrama with dramatic depictions of Lincoln's assassination, slavery, and liberation.
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Boo Begers
Jim
Ku Klux Klan
Abraham Lincoln
Ford
Washington
Mt. Vernon Lodge F and A M meets weekly at Masonic Hall
Mt Vernon Lodge No. 22 F and A M meets in regular communication every Thursday night at the Masonic Hall third floor Max Joseph Building Clayton Street. W. A. CAPPS and MO. QUINN serve as officers with the secretary.
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Mt. Vernon Lodge
No. 22
Masonic Hall
Max Joseph
Clayton Street
W. A. Capps
W. B. MO. Quinn
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Erwin & Company
Ataens, Georgia
Lipscomb
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J. C. Jester
Flanigan & Flanigan
Edison
J. A. Morris
Lumpkin St
Nice
Winterville
J. L. Morris
RHI. Jefferson
B. A. Juhan
Care
W. H. Simpson
Empire State Chemical Cas Factory
Winder
Davison-Nicholson Co
Rufus Moss
Stout
Davison- Nicholson Co
Athens and
Jones Greenhouse
Auto, Electric Company
Broad Street
City Garage
Court House
Atlantic Iee & Coal Corporation
Care Athens Banner
Cumberland Chemical Co
Derry Block
Nashville
Tenn
Hoover Electrical
Ath Ns Railway & Mleetrie Co
Banner
S. T. Tracy
Strand Theater
Reid Drug Store
Howard Graham
Smith Shoe Co
Georgia State Board of Embalming
No. Ui Iryst
Greenberg & Bond Co
Atlanta
S. Hl. Dunbar
R. H. Baxter
R. H. Prince
R. H. Nacoochee
J. T. Anderson
D. G. Anderson & Rear City Garage
Pape
RED Cross Committee
Tna
Kyven
C. A. Scudder
Jeoweler
Lipscomb & CO
Green & Michael Loan Department
Mutual
Germany
Chas. H. Johnson
Georgia National Bank
Athens, Georgia
United States Depository Safety Deposit Boxes
J. J. Wilkins
M. G. Nicholson
J. Warren Smith
W. P. Brooks
J. C. McClain
Asa’t
P. T. Betts
Asn’t
E. L. Wilkins
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W. Ussery
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