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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1905
Page
6
Davigon and Lowe announce a Saturday clearing out sale featuring ladies and mens wool underwear hosiery gloves walking skirts and woolen garments. Full line Colgate soaps perfumes and notions including handkerchiefs collars Windsor ties and Madras shirts. Special prices on stockings collars and hose with a wide selection of colors and lengths.
Thursday night George Nicholson Gordine Lumpkin Prescott Briggs and a Peeler boy ran away with their loads. Alarmed parents searched eagerly. Luther Tolbert of Hull Ga. identified them and notified their families. They were returned to Athens yesterday afternoon, their adventure ending unintendedly.
An old time reader describes eye trouble from overwork and coffee. He notes kaleidoscopic blurs and headaches, improves after stopping coffee, and claims Postum tea substitutes cured his eye spells. The ad argues coffee harms nerves and urges a 19 day coffee cessation with Postum.
In Macon on February 24 Judge Custis Nottingham criticized federal writs of habeas corpus amid the Annie Wheeler sentence. He mocked Judge Emory Speer’s anniversary celebration, prompting questions about the motives of local civic leaders in honoring him.
Nashville, Tenn.—D Ben F. Beckham seeks damages from the United States government for the killing of his family during the Civil War. He alleges Island No. 10 troops from the Mississippi River drove the family to the river, shot men women and children, and that federal gunboats fired on the scene leaving positive proof of the murder.
A list of arrivals includes R. M. Mixon of Augusta and numerous others from Augusta, Baltimore, Columbus, Crawford, City, Atlanta, New York, and more. Names featured are J. R. Kidd A. S. Johnson C. W. Young Geo. E. Clayton W. H. Camp and others registering at the Imperial Hotel.
Cream pitchers from Germany feature dainty decoration and fine porcelain qualities. The description highlights light color schemes and elegant floral motifs suitable for table settings and display.
A fast championship style game at the Y M C A saw the Y team beat the M team 39 to 38 after a second half rally. Y players Murray captain Kellogg Holzendorf Fawcett and Finch faced M regulars Mitchell Rhodes E and Wier Hulme Rhodes F. A stray ad line notes hat prices for women.
Athens spots submit price quotes from Athens and New York, with Chicago Grain and Produce listing May wheat and corn, July oats and other futures. The record includes pork and lard futures, along with brief jokes and ads mixed into the market notes.
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