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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1918
Page
19
Classified notices show lenders like Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest on savings, plus farm and city real estate loan options. Also see vacant rental offers, farm land for sale, nurseries, oil stock prospects, and a Lexington courthouse sale for 64 acres with mill water power rights.
The Athens campaign launches the largest summer school for teachers July 1 to August 3 1918. It fuses University of Georgia State Normal School and Smith Hughes aims with a strong local outreach slogan.
The play Human Hearts enjoyed long lasting popularity like The Old Homestead and East Lynne. A matinee yesterday and a second show last night pleased the audience. The producing company was unusually strong for a popular priced show and should prove a season hit in small towns.
An old advertising claim promises a one day cure for colds using LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets with money back guarantee by EB. W. Arove. Each box bears his signature and is priced at 30 cents.
The War Department designates the Chickamauga, Georgia camp for Confederate cavalry leader General Nathan Bedford Forrest, honoring his memory with official naming as Camp Forrest.
The sale of John Stuffy McInnis to the Boston club marks the complete break up of Connie Mack s famed Athletics six. Former stars Murphy Collins Lapp Strunk Schang Bush and McInnis have moved to new teams as Boston Chicago and New York have paid and exchanged almost 70 000 in cash plus players. The 1913 Athletics dominated the league and World Series before the break up began.
Mr J F Tibbetts of this city is designated by President R C Freeman and Secretary P E Glenn of the Georgia Cotton Manufacturers Association to be one of three Georgia representatives at the Congress of National Service in Chicago February 21 to 23. The congress is called by the National Security League and includes notable figures such as Elihu Root and Alton B Parker. Tibbetts is expected to attend.
Miles W. Matthews as executor will sell on the first Tuesday in February in Jefferson Jackson County Georgia all real estate of D P Matthews deceased. Six tracts totaling about 350 acres with dwellings barns outbuildings timber pasture bottom lands and water. Cash sale. Plot viewable at John B Gamble Athens or at the executor's residence near Center.
The ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as safe for anyone with no nervousness or head ringing. It notes a single product and bears ER W. Grove’s signature on the box, priced 30 cents.
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