Local Social Notes From Athens Society Page
The Catholic women plan a tea on Monday February 28 from 3 to 9 PM at Mrs Piul Pavsiz 8s' Boulevary to benefit the church. The Woman's Mission Union of the First Baptist church meets this afternoon at 3:30 PM. Mayor Rhodes and Captain J C McMahan return from Atlanta after attending the Greater Georgia association. Several residents and visitors are noted including Miss Bersie Sutherlin of Virginia visiting P W Sutherlin, general manager of the Imperial Hotel. Others travel to Mardi Gras in New Orleans and visits span Savannah Athens Atlanta Macon Augusta and West Point with relatives and guests at various homes.
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Piul Pavsiz
Boulevary
Good Luck Baking Powder Promoted For Strong Leavening
An advertisement touts Good Luck Baking Powder as the best leavening for wholesome bread and praises its formula. The piece notes Chancellor Hill’s visit to the Gate City and promotes drugstore prescriptions from The Orr Drug Co. It also advertises coal from Lyndon Mfg. Co. and Hood's Sarsaparilla for blood purification and vitality.
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Chancellor Hill
Gate City
Orr Drug Co
Ayer
3. C. avEn Co
Lowell
Mass
Michael Brd Great Showing at Wash Fabrics Event
A local display highlights wash fabrics such as Manilla Pongee Mercerized Madras Dotted Mousselines Printed Mousse lines Silk Chambry and more. White goods feature Mercerized Madras for waists and dresses plus Embroidered Swiss Indian Lawn and Persian Lawn textiles. Dress goods and silks show new season colors and we reveal ready to wear skirts on sale today.
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Madras
Dundee
London
Cauliflower Att P. Morton Savings Deposit Ad
An OCR fragment notes Cauliflower Att P. Morton, Capital 68, phone 40,000 dollars. A Savings Depositon on which "A Dollar Baved in a Dollar Mantle" begins an account.
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P. Morton
Attorneys Former Seaboard Lawyer Opens Practice in Atlanta
Louis Camak advertises rental of a seven room cottage at Hancock and Newton. I P Morton lists celery and oranges with phone 68. Pins found at the Opera house after Arizona performance. owners may claim at Banner office. Woolley leaves Seaboard Air Line Ry. to start general practice. office 828 Prudential Bldg Atlanta.
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Vassar Woolley
Seaboard Air Line Ry
Prudential Bidg
Atlanta
Hancock Ave
Newton Stress Louis Camak
Opera
Arizona
Mrs Grant's Bright Sayings and a Voting Anecdote
A Philadelphia anecdote recalls Mrs Julia Dent Grant hosting a parsimonious visitor who learned of a penniless mother with two children and deserted by a drunkard. A second tale recounts an old doctor asking for the word equinomics, and a judge favoring Daniel Webster while noting its omission from Webster's dictionary.
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Daniel
Cure a Cold in One Day With Laxation Bromo Quinine
A promotional note claims Laxation Bromo Quinine Tablets cure colds in one day and offer refunds if unsuccessful. EK W Grove signature appears on each box. Also cites Mrs J A Moore of North Star Michigan praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best for coughs colds and croup.
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EK. W. Grove
J. A. Moore
North Star Mich
The Cork Tree and Other Brief Observations
The cork tree is an evergreen oak found in southern Europe and northern Africa. It is cultivated in Spain and Portugal and peeled first at ten to twenty years old. first bark is for tanning and later peels improve quality. Peeling occurs every eight to twelve years, in July or August. The piece also notes magnetizing a witness by eye contact and a joke about Briefless marrying Bonds, plus miscellaneous quips and promotional lines for Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
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Europe
Africa
Spain
Portugal
Amusing Pocket Theater Jokes and Comic Exchanges
A compendium of light humor from early 20th century shows and sketches. Nate Salsbury and Bill Nye are named friends with Nye sharing stories at a New York house on Staten Island. A boarding house joke sequence ends with a quip about rheumatism and doctors.
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Nate Salsbury
Bill Nye
New York City
Staten Island
Nye
Salsbury
A Freak Giant
A quirky exchange notes a candidate’s boast and a claim of being the smallest giant on record in a humorous, clipped dialogue. The piece captures a comic moment about size and spectacle with a showman’s banter.
Clifton flour and medicines advertised by local store
An old advertisement promotes Clifton flour as ideal for biscuits sold exclusively by Wingfield Cash Grocery Store in Athens. It also touts Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and a One Minute Cough Cure from Orr Drug Co as cures for digestive issues and coughs with claims of rapid relief and health benefits.
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Clifton
Wingfield Cash Grocery Store
Athens
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Jorce
Dr. Preocs
J W. Price
Oak
Monroe Co
Ohio
Pierce
The
Clarke County Building Loan & Improvement Co
Athens Savings Bank
Wilson’s Auction and Commission House
Wilson & Pittman
J. P. Wilson
Parr Bros
Mack Parr
Athens, Ga
Slaughter Sale
Lendid Sweat
Dad
D. W. McGregor
Georgia
Ie World F Society
Woman's Mission Union of the
First Baptist Church
Rhodes
J. C. McMahan
Greater Georgia
Laurence Haynes
Walter ‘Hodgson
Hodgson
Bersie Sutherlin
Virginia
P. W. Sutherlin
Imperial Hotel
Clarence Cannerat
Capt
W. W. Thomas
Savannah
S. H. Pittard
Florida
Lyle and Thompson
Kentucky
George D . Thomas
Prince Ave
Nell Norton
Gainesville
Claude Jackson
E. O. McEvoy
Mrs. Billups Phinizy
New Orleans
B. A. McClure
Condersport, Pa
A. Rhodes
Cobb Street
Ralph Webb
Madge Webb
Shelby, N. C
S. L. Greene
Brunswick, Ga
John L Arnold
Miss Lee Brown
E. S. Lyndon
D. L. Adams
West Point
Henry Jones
Clase
Macon
Gerald Green
Thomasville
Frances Watter
Thomas
Ira E. Dupree
Danville
Dan Dupree
Gertrude Jackson
Augusta
Misses Thomas
Marion Hull
Richmond
Marion Smith
Lyndon Mfg. Co's
Michael
Michael Bros
Tutt
Mt. Vernon Lodge
No. 22
A. M
W. F. Dorsey
W. M
C. A. Scudder, Jeweler
Cornér College
Avanus
Athens, G
Tenney
I P. Morton Paone
O. W. Motes
College Avenue
University Savings Bank
Celery Ati P. Morton
I. P. Morton
H. R Palmer & Sons
Ise Cheney
Boston Christian Register
Castoria
ROYAL
Brougham
Briefless
Reuben
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Post
Chamberlain
William A Girard
Pease, Vt
Draggiats
Mr. Todgers
Maria
Mastor IA
A. By Baxter & CO
Broad St
Wingfield
Wingfield’s Cash Grocery Store
Broad Street
Southern Electric Supply Company
Eda
Victor Talking Machines
Lamos
Clayton St
Orr’s School
Pulaski and
Dougherty Streets
S. P. Orr
Commercial Job Office
Lumpkin St. Banner Building
W. T. Dean
Allen H. Talmage
Washington Street
Atiiens, GA
Rosa A. von der Lieth
R. Brandt
Clayton Street
Athena
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