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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1916
Page
2
Local ads list rent notes for a 17 room house near P. and O court house, a 6 room Milledge Ave house, a Cobb St. Ring property, an insurance agency for sale, two live filemen wanted, piano for sale, and various shop and food promos. Multiple firms cited include King Hodsgon Co, Athens Ice Co, Erwin & Co, Rubenstein, and Athens Cycle Co, with phone numbers and brief offers.
The Athens Savings Bank pays 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1 and July 1. Deposits from $1.00. Get the saving habit. Also ads for rent, loans, groceries, and assorted goods from local merchants like Arnold & Abney, Comers, and Rubenstein, plus a lost-key notice and a reward.
Seaboard Air Line Railway President W J HarrAhan arrived in Athens by special presidential car on the 4 45 train from Atlanta and will depart on the 1 35 northbound train. He toured road properties in the South and expressed satisfaction with business conditions and progress around Athens. He is accompanied by aides and staff members.
Allen Abrams a colored man was sentenced by Judge West to eight months in the chaingan for stealing a pair of three dollar shoes from Sweetie Thurmond a colored girl. He previously escaped from the courthouse and faces a later trial for a pawn shop burglary at Clay ton and Thomas streets.
For sale two five passenger Fords and one five passenger Hudson 33 in good condition all overhauled also one Maxwell Special five passenger and one Overland cut down roadster. Advertises Parks' Newport Coffee Hodgson Co Armour's Star Ham Devonshire Park Sausage and contact details for Arnol d and Abney with prices per item.
Friday only specials list Nabob Pure Maple Syrup Velva Sugar Cane Syrup Aunt Dinah Molasses Ingleside Georgia Cane Syrup and more with limited one can or jar per purchaser. The ad promotes the best in the market and mentions a Vaudette college picture “The College Orphan” shown today at the Vaudette with six reels Universal.
W C Jordan prominent in business and fraternal circles has been confined to his Milledge Avenue home since Monday with a badly crippled ankle. He was better yesterday.
Miss Mary Anne Frierson suffered severe facial and hand burns from a light stove explosion in her Hancock avenue home yesterday morning. Eye injury was feared but later not found. sight unaffected.
The Vaudette theater launches a 33 day popularity contest running until February 18. First prize is a Maxwell touring car valued at $695, second prize a $100 diamond ring, third prize $26 in gold. Votes earned by purchasing admissions and cash gifts, with an office at the theater for details.
A group from Athens and nearby areas departs this afternoon in a special Pullman to Savannah then Brunswick Fernandina and Jacksonville for a two week fishing and hunting cruise aboard a charter boat with plans for a Cuba extension. Participants include John J. Wilkins James W Morton Walter H Jones John R Northcutt J H Dorsey John Welch Dave Paddock Jack F Jackson J C Brown John T Pit tard Ralph Brightwell and W T Brightwell with potential additions.
Oliver Encampment No 14 I O O F meets tonight at 8 for electing and installing officers. All members are urged to attend.
Associated Press reports the Jess Willard and Frank Moran ten round boxing bout will not be held in New York until May likely Decoration Day. The article also notes a bizarre note about boot inserts and discusses salmon berries found along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska with Alaska highlighting their value.
The recipe calls for dissolving twelve parts sandarac six parts shellac six parts mastic three parts elemi gum in one hundred fifty parts alcohol warm when dissolved and add six parts Venice turpentine to color match the old varnish with Brazil wood and dragon's blood gum.
The police department made three arrests yesterday. Kendall Lilly was charged with being drunk. Walt Jackson, colored, was charged with stealing a pair of shoes. Henry Horton, colored, was charged with beating his wife.
The author notes that nations like Germany foster national spirit through numerous choral societies and patriotic songs, while observes the world has not done as much with popular singing. He suggests organizing similar groups could boost national pride.
A gardener advises lining pot drainage holes with coarse muslin before adding stones and sod. The muslin keeps soil in place and prevents earth from washing away while preserving drainage.
A healthful kitchen note advises that only nourishing tasty well cooked food should be offered to the invalid or pale patient. Avoid unattractive trays or oversized portions as they may ruin a capricious appetite.
The fragment critiques marching in sections and losing vital individuality. It laments becoming slaves to fashion in mind and heart, not just passions and appetites, as quoted by Chapin.
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