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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1912
Page
3
An advertisement fragment notes Wooltex Suit and Skirt Co selling ready to wear coats suits and skirts with a $25 bank account opening offer and a booklet of facts and illustrations while coats and garments are examined for quality.
Twenty nine years of Wooltex leadership in women’s coats suits and skirts with pure fabrics and superior tailoring. The firm runs a Paris style bureau and Cleveland design staff to adapt Paris models. Wooltex guarantees two full seasons of satisfactory service with prices from 6 to 55 dollars and invites readers to answer three questions about features quality style tailoring and the guarantee with responses by February 15 1912.
Mrs William H Toombs of Washington Georgia escaped fatal burns after her skirts ignited at her Main Street home. She leaped into a tub of water to extinguish the flames with her five year old grandson present. She is described as a prominent Washington matron and wife of former city judge W H Toombs, with a report today that her condition is improved.
An advertisement touts Rexall Orderlies as tasting like candy and being easy on the stomach. The seller offers a full money back guarantee if customers are not thoroughly satisfied. The laxative is claimed to be non gripe causing and suitable for children and the elderly. Packages come in 10c 25c and 50c sizes at The Rexall Store.
Chicago reports four youths convicted of murdering Fred Guerlow a month after the crime near Bowmanville. Ewald Shiblawi Frank Shiblawi A Phillip Sommerling and Thomas Z Twov to be hanged at Cook County jail on Friday unless Governor Deneen grants reprieve. Rita and Leo Suchomski, both 16, serve life terms. The victim was a truck gardener with a wife and infant, stabbed four times after being beaten.
Fulton County commissioners consider lining county roads with trees. The proposal asks property owners to supply trees for roadside plantings and to care for them until they mature. Several landowners have already expressed willingness to participate.
A. V. Deadwyler announces a new first class blacksmith shop opposite the Ambach shop on Clayton street offering horse shoeing and general repair work.
The Athenaen Cafe announces a special dinner for today and will offer special dinners every Sunday thereafter. The notice promises clean fresh up-to-date offerings.
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