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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
8
Classified items from The Banner list real estate, insurance, and service notices with details on houses, rooms, lots, and hires. Entries include real estate offerings by Erwin & Company and other local agents, farm loans, and help wanted notes for clerical work with salary cues.
A collage of short notices includes sales for electrical fixtures and cotton seed, used vehicles including 1918 Buick and Oldsmobile roadsters, Ford kits, and general farm listings. Also present are eggs from prize birds, insurance agency ads, a tire loss notice, and a life insurance agent opening in Athens with J A Bishop as contact.
Whipping cream on hand at King Hodgson's Prince Ave Store with Broad St Railroad Store contact. Veal loaf lunch tongue and Bartlett's Pears advertised at Whitten's with phones listed. Costa's Delicatessen Shop features produce like Iceberg lettuce Celery Spinach and Tomatoes in a compact city ad.
Hastings' 1920 Seed Catalogue offers over one million free packets of easily grown flower seeds to beautify homes in the South. The 100 page catalog features garden and farm information and is available by request with no obligation to buy.
Property on Dougherty between Lumpkin and Hull with a 76 by 16 foot lot faces Dougherty and Strong street. House in good condition includes two tronk rooms two baths large living and dining rooms pantry and reception room plus a two room servant’s house in rear. Immediate possession offered. See W H Chafin at Chafin Bros Washington street.
The Demosthenian Literary Society of the University of Georgia announces officers for the next term. President is E. C. Andrews. Vice President J. H. Weat. Parliamentarian E. W. Highsmith. Sergeant-at-Arms W. M. Pool. Tribunal members are J. S. Watkins and L. K. Bethune. Henry Rigdon from Tifton is named.
Friday February 13 features Baked Spanish Mackerel Dressing or Roast Beef with mashed potatoes Navy beans steamed rice corn sticks and rice pudding lemon sauce served at Thornton's Luncheonette.
Georgia's student group will play the Athens Y. W. C. A. team at the city Y Saturday night. The game starts at 8:30 p.m. Admission is 50 cents.
Athens Georgia Mayor Andrew C Erwin announces sealed bids invited for 150000 street paying bonds in whole or part. Bids due at the Clerk of the Mayor and Council office by twelve o'clock February 18 1920 with a five percent certified check deposit. Financial statements and details available from James Barrow Clerk Athens Ga.
Chicago February 12. Glenn E. Plumb of the Plumb Plan League urged a capital levy to discharge the national debt. He proposed two percent of the wealthiest two thirds pay their share, with sixty five percent of people contributing proportionately, to fund the debt.
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