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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1916
Page
8
Short notices advertise Lipscomb's specialty insurance and fire division with J C Jester, rooms for rent on Jackson Street, loans, hardware at Fleming Dearing sale, rental and sale of houses near P O and court house, church event, pony wanted, twin Excelsior motor pede for sale, Vaudette popularity contest seeks support, coach ads for Athens Ice Co, and a bankrupt Fleming Dearing sale.
Garden Tools The very things you need for coming spring Fleming Dearing Bankrupt Sale. For Rent Cottage on Dearing St Apply to Calhoun O'Farrell. Lost pocket book reward. It lists several used cars for sale including five passenger Fords Maxwell Overland Hudson with details. The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on deposits.
Miss Anna Wynn wed Thomas Fitzpatrick yesterday at the bride’s Culloden home. The ceremony coincided with the groom’s sister’s marriage, and Fitzpatrick, a 1912 University graduate, works with American Coal Products Co. southern office. Basiline Prince returns from Charlotte visit. Also noting local Ham and a political contest appeal.
Federal Judge Hazel approved the outline of a government decree for separating Eastman Kodak Co business lines in a re organization. The ruling does not order dissolution yet and final decree will wait for objections from the company's lawyers before signing.
The senate approved a Philippine self government bill with a prohibition amendment by a 35 to 23 vote. It bans manufacture importation and sale of all intoxicating drinks or drugs in the Philippines except native beverages. Senators Vadaman and Gronna backed the amendment. Tomorrow Clark's amendment on Philippine independence within two years will be considered.
Secretary Lansing announced that Germany informed the United States that all submarines in the Mediterranean are reported to be inactive in the sinking of the Persia, with Germany declaring no involvement in the incident.
Annual meeting in Athens reelects old directors and officers. Bludwine Company reports strong year with an 8 percent dividend. Subsidiary betting plant, led by F B Hinton, declares 30 percent dividend after five years of 30 to 60 percent yearly gains.
Mr. Wesley McKinnon, chief engineer at the Waterworks Station, fell on the ice yesterday morning and suffered multiple broken ribs and minor injuries.
In Realty Business the agent states a full move from grocery sales to real estate, offering exclusive personal attention to renting. GEO Collins invites continued business and provides contact phone 244 J for rentals and inquiries.
President Truman intends to confer with wartime leaders over personal reasons guiding the fight for a stronger army. He expects to issue public addresses, likely to be held in the South, after receiving reports on uncertain outcomes of the issue.
Washington January 18 The department of labor unconditionally admitted Mrs Eminelate Pankhurst to the United States holding that her English offenses were political and did not involve moral turpitude The law excludes only persons convicted of moral turpitude and previous admissions did not pass on other alleged offenses connected to the suffrage leader.
The bodies of Jose Roderiguez and Miguel Baca-Valles, bandit leaders executed near Madera, were positively identified by Americans and U S officials who knew Roderiguez as Villa aide. The men looted mines near Fanellés and threatened foreigners. Baca-Valles, before execution, crawled and pleaded.
Vitagraph stars led by Rankin Drew present Thou Art the Man a six act story of East Indian life praised as a classic. George Cameron widow of Mrs Sidney Drew wrote the plot from the Bible on her deathbed with her son S Renkin Drew directing. The tale follows love and virtue amid fever cholera and hardship with enduring moral overtones.
The Clarke County Fair at the Colonial opera house drew a full house for a musical comedy staged by the Elks lodge. Director Miss Anna Sarah Bock led a 300-strong cast of local youths and adults, with Edith Stone delivering an encored solo and Mayor Bob Arnold observing as the show moved to an even livelier second performance. The county fair fund drive was announced, with a notice calling Elks ticket sellers to return unsold tickets by five this afternoon.
Tram mell Scott a former University of Georgia baseball star and early 1900s athlete was shot and left in critical condition near his home in Athens. Local interest surged as reports from Atlanta papers told of a mysterious street shooting attributed to Black suspects. Scott, married months earlier, had a notable college career and later business work in Atlanta.
Washington January 18 The house committee on agriculture favorably reported a bill to establish federal licensing and supervision of warehouses for staple agricultural products. Representative Dever of South Carolina, committee chairman and author, says the bill would make agricultural products held in warehouses through receipts the best possible collateral for securing money.
The House moved the Ferris bill to establish 640 acre stock raising homesteads across seventeen states including Seventeen states land, mountain tracts. The proposal references Mr Scott son of S B Scott a Confederate veteran linked to We s Treadwell Real Estate Agency and Mrs Scott.
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