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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
4
Range of small ads includes real estate, services, wanted items, and public notices. Listings mention Athens Savings Bank interest offers, insurance, carpenters, rooms for rent, moving services, a candy kitchen transfer, office furniture, and a railway mail clerk exam notice. Also a tonic product ad and theft notice for stolen desk papers.
Marcus Loew announces purchase of Metro Pictures Corporation and enters filmmaking. He already owns a chain of motion picture and vaudeville houses. Financial details were not disclosed.
Fresh vegetables fruits and all food items to eat prompt delivery from Arnold Abney Piggly Wiggly offers pears corn cakes and buckwheat flour. The ad markets old fashioned pound cake rye bread and California black eyed peas with several items from Portlett pears to fish shipments at Piggly Wiggly.
Advertisement lists large cans of pie speeches and large cans of pie apples at 20 cents each.
Thornton's Luncheonette offers 60c dinner plates including veal or roast beef with sides and desserts. Also lists 40c plate dinner, fried rabbit, and homemade cakes and pies with coffee tea or milk.
A pharmacist from Coburn Ry notes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best cough medicine after seven years of family use. He reports strong customer trust and frequent recommendations to patients and neighbors.
An old advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children. It claims the product has a pleasant fruity taste and advises checking the bottle for dosing directions, urging parents to give it without fear.
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