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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1920
Page
16
A mixture of small ads and notes lists insurers, carpenters, lawn supplies, poultry breeds, and real estate. It includes offers from Chafin Bros dealers, W. T. Braxton, and F. M. Hailey with delivery details, plus real estate buys and rentals on Barber street and Milledge near Lucy Cobb. Also notices lost items, seeking stenographers, and job and loan inquiries.
Quick sale listing offers 600 acres with 200 acres water cultivation and timbered land in a White community near church. Three houses, located in Toombs County Georgia. Offered at 25 per acre with terms. Contact Wade Johnson Mount Vernon Ga. Also ads for Athens Savings Bank and Hilley Furniture Co. plus a call to organize a White Brick Layers Union in Athens Georgia.
Whipping cream on hand at King Hodgsn Co stores on Prince Ave and Clayton St. Offers iceberg lettuce celery tomatoes turnips spinach beets mustard radishes and fresh eggs. Sliced oysters boiled ham raw ham ox tongue dried beef pork sausage pickles relishes sweet and sour items and buckwheat flour from Arnold Abney Co and Milledge Ave listings.
A Hastings Co seed advertisement offers over one million free seed packets to Southern households. The 1920 Hastings catalogue, appealing to gardeners, promises five free flower seeds with no obligation to buy, and invites readers to request by postal card or letter for free delivery from Atlanta, Georgia.
Edward H. Charette of Stockton California and Dr Frederick L Barnum of Brooklyn have been released by Bolsheviks in Siberia V ladivostok cable reports other three Red Cross men presumed safe and delayed telegrams blamed on disorganized telegraph systems in Siberia
Washington reports the railroad bill was sent to the White House today with a Feb 25 deadline before private control resumes at 12:01 a.m. next Monday. Railroad brotherhoods oppose the measure and draft a veto memorial, while George P. Hampton of the Farmers National Council asks the president to hear opposing delegates, though other farmers groups back the bill.
Major General Leonard Wood formally opened his Ohio bid for president with Senator Harding as the preferred Republican nominee and Ohio’s forty eight delegates to the national convention. Campaign manager John P. Price filed Wood’s candidacy in Columbus on February 25.
The Georgia and Atlanta Athletic Club basketball teams will be guests of Manager Funkenstein at the Colonial Theatre after the Georgia A A C game in the Octagon. The show Oh Daddy will be performed one night, starting at 8, with both teams in boxes and many college players expected to attend.
Washington February 25 Senators generally declined to comment on whether they will confirm Bainbridge Colby President Wilson surprised everyone by selecting him as secretary of state.
A home remedy claims to ease catarrhal deafness and head noises. Use Parmint double strength with hot water and sugar, take a tablespoon four times daily. Reported improvements include easier breathing and reduced headaches and brain fog, with restored senses in many cases.
Reported reductions in credit contraction and further liquidation fears weighed on the stock market. Liberty bonds and Victory notes hit new lows as exchanges prepared for deeper declines amid uncertain conditions.
The block on the church line to the corner is being improved with automotive showrooms and commercial use. Col. Julian B. McCurry buys the corner lot. Coca Cola Bottling Company plans a large Thomas street plant. Gulf Refining purchases Athens Lumber site. Jago property on Tigmas and Hancock avenues changes hands. Christin Church lot sold to Charles Morris. real estate activity surges as records struggle to keep up.
The ad promotes a 60 cent plate dinner at Thornton's Luncheonette featuring roast pork with tomato sauce or roast beef, mashed potatoes, stewed tomatoes, baked yams, muffins, and apple or mince pie with coffee, tea, or milk. Location noted as 404 Thornton's.
Barry Hogarty, American smelter superintendent, has been released by Mexican bandits who captured him in Durango. Telegram to the American Metal Company in Monterey, dated February 26, states the ransom payment status is not disclosed.
London February 28 The commission of labor men recently investigated conditions in Ireland and issued a strong denunciation of what it terms British misrule The report highlights harsh conditions and policy failures affecting workers in Ireland and calls for corrective action by authorities and unions alike
Washington reports say the peace treaty will be before the senate again as leaders expect continual consideration until a ratification vote. Both Republican and Democratic chiefs admit uncertainty about final outcomes and suggest a test of strength if no action in two to three weeks. The issue may drift into the presidential campaign.
Funeral services for Lathe Escoe Jr a year old son of Mr and Mrs L T Escoe will be held today at 4 o clock at Oconee cemetery. Rev S R Grubb of the Christian church will conduct the services. He is survived by two sisters Edith and Azilee.
From Geneva dated February 25 Swiss papers report German war prisoners repatriated from France, about 200,000 already back, marching through Switzerland under the banners Die Wacht Am Rhine and Deutschland, declaring they will return home to prepare for the next war.
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