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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1916
Page
2
Local brief items advertise fire insurance by Lipscomb and Jester, coal and rent notices for houses on Milledge and Athens avenue, inquiries about loans from Equitable Life and Green & Michael, employment for a stenographer, office work for a young lady, and various handyman and room rental notices. Also mentions Dozier & Co. for carpentry and a Jackson Street address for a local office.
A mixed Athens newspaper page lists a savings bank offer paying 4 percent interest on deposits from 21.00, rental offers for furnished and six room houses, employment notes, a used delivery truck for sale, farm renting bargains, and a lost item notice for a sterling silver card case. Also included are ads for eggs, celery and citrus produce, a corset sale, and a charity line about skim milk.
A local housewares store announces a limited time 20 percent reduction on all aluminumware including roasters kettles and steamers. With every $2 or more aluminumware purchase, a two quart percolator normally $2.00 is offered at $1.85. Buyers urged to view patterns and complete sets at the store, a household goods headquarters.
A newspaper advertisement promotes a mail order trial package from Foley Co Chicago Missouri including Foley Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets offered via cut out slip send five cents with name and address H R Palmer and Sons also listed in ad
Max Joseph's Department Store on Clayton Street advertises an all in one deli lineup. The display features Vienna sausages thick bolognas corned beef pastrama and other prepared meats with a slicing machine for quick service.
An inviting rest room on Clayton street, free for all ladies of Athens and nearby areas, opens today. It is clean, elegant, and fully equipped with rocking chairs, cradles, tables, newspapers, magazines, lounges, and a waiting area. A colored mammy will assist guests and a nurse will care for children, addressing a long felt need.
The ad claims Pape's Diapepsin cures indigestion in five minutes for sour stomach heartburn and dyspepsia. It touts speed, safety, and popularity, urging households to keep a fifty cent case for immediate relief from stomach distress at day or night.
Letters from readers praise Foley Kidney Pills for relief from kidney trouble and rheumatic pains. Advertisements tout Foley Cathartic Tablets for digestion and energy, plus Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation and indigestion. Sold by H R Palmer & Sons and all dealers.
The Colonial presents a four act melodrama and musical comedy When Dreams Come True. Kean Hedges, a young American, returns from Europe to confront a smuggling plot and a romance with Beth amid a chase for a pearl string. The production features a fifty member company, varieties of song and dance, and silk painted final act scenery.
A special agricultural extension school on wheels for colored farmers began its tour from Athens along the Central of Georgia Railway. More than 2,000 people attended, including 300 colored farmers from Clarke County, as schools closed for the event. Eugene A. Williams led the program with Pres. R. R. Wright and Chancellor Barrow in attendance.
An advertisement claims Schiffmanns New Concentrated Expectorant cures bronchial coughs croup and colds. It touts a money back guarantee, economical cost, and a home mix formula with sugar and water, offered by Warren J. Smith Bro Drug Co.
The Central Georgia program features talks by Dr. Soule and local educators to colored farmers. The train will tour Georgia with stops at Madison Hatton Milledgeville and Macon, sharing practical farming guidance backed by leaders from both races.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears to pay one hundred dollars for each case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The 1886 oath, before A. W. Gimar on note, claims direct action on mucous surfaces. ad includes testimonials and nationwide drugstore sales.
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