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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1915
Page
5
Mr. C. M. Bell named dog catcher with orders to impound all dogs lacking official city tags for 1915. Tags available at the City Marshal's office. Also includes ads for Dr King’s New Life Pills and Sloan's Liniment promising easy laxative effects and muscle relief.
Atlanta July 5 Special to the Banner notes the legislative investigation into insurer failures in Georgia and how the state law has been enforced. It cites Georgia firms like Southern States Life Athens Southern Mutual Georgia Home Columbus and Atlanta Home as examples of sound operations and urges proper insurance commissioner administration to ensure enforcement.
D Alexander of Broad Street and W R Bedgood of Atlantic Ice and Coal Company faced disorderly conduct charges. Bedgood says the dispute began over a trivial matter and Alexander drew a butcher knife on him.
Athens reader Mrs. M. Williams reports kidney trouble and backache keeping her awake at night. After using Dean's Kidney Pills from Palmer & Sons' Drug Store she felt relief and had only one setback since. Price 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
Media note urges parents to observe children for constipation and difficulty in expressing it. It promotes Rexall Orderlies a mild laxative with a sugar taste sold by Palmer & Bons for 10 cents.
Atlanta Shriners led by Potentate Forrest Adair depart at 7 am on a special Southern train for the North American Shrine Convention in Seattle. The party, escorted by the Yaarab Patrol and Yaaran Temple band, will tour the San Francisco exposition San Diego and the Grand Canyon among other stops, reflecting Atlanta's large state delegation and honoring hospitality from the prior year.
The county courthouse marks its first Tuesday sale day with sheriff sales and official business. The county commissioners meet in Clerk Tate Wrights office. The ordinarys court adjourned to Thursday. The county school board delays until August. Justice of the peace courts handled civil business yesterday.
A vintage advertisement promotes Parisian Sage as daily scalp treatment, claiming it nourishes hair roots, reduces dandruff with two to three applications, cools the scalp, and leaves hair soft glossy and lively. Sold by H.R. vralmer & Sons and other druggists.
Morning and afternoon baseball results across the Southern, Federal, National and American leagues with rain and darkness delays. Notable results include Detroit 9 Cleveland 7 and St Louis 3 Chicago 1. Also announces American State Bank stockholders meeting on Tuesday July 13 at 4 p.m.
The University of Georgia summer school hosts a teachers exchange with no cost to educators or boards. It connects teachers seeking better positions with Georgia school communities seeking qualified staff, aided by reports from school supervisors noting many available posts statewide.
Weather forces rain delays and the New York Chicago and New Orleans exchanges closed yesterday in observance of Independence Day. Liverpool cotton prices were quoted with Tone steady at middling 53 4-100 pence per pound amid 15,000 sales.
A letter from Johnston Storm & Co. of New York analyzes the Acreage and possible lint yields from government figures. It discusses past and current market conditions, demand drivers including ammunition use, and the risk factors in a volatile economy while urging focus on crop prospects and fertilizer considerations.
A two story brick building on Clayton Street next to the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company offices, long owned by Mr. M Stern and last occupied by Dr. J L Pendley, has been sold through Erwin and Company to Col. James M Smith of Smithonia. The property is described as a prime city business site.
The stockholders of the Athens Savings Bank will meet at the banking house on Tuesday July 6 at 4 p.m. for the annual session. G. A. Mell serves as cashier and is noted in the notice.
LINTON SPRING WATER Co offers purified water for all Athens families and urges protection and quality. The firm lists telephone numbers 504 and 95 and promotes Bowden Lithia and Chamberlains Liniment with testimonials from Florence Slife of Wabash Indiana. For sale by all dealers.
Washington figures show Georgia collected 320617.52 from corporations and 119983.61 from individuals in the year ending June 30. Nationwide totals place New York and Pennsylvania ahead. the list records corporate and individual tax receipts for each state and district.
An advertisement promotes Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a reliable family medicine, urging do not delay relief. It notes higher weevil pressure in Texas Alabama and Mississippi with poor tap roots and reliance on lateral roots. Forecasts higher prices for the next six weeks from Johnston Storm & Co.
Mrs Mary Wallace a Wilkes county Christian woman long active in the Presbyterian church died at nearly 90 after 15 years invalidism at the home of Mrs John M Fluker in Washington The funeral was held yesterday She was mother to Mrs W D Bowden of this city and Mrs J M Fluker of Washington Known for home making and steadfast faith her long suffering mirrored her religion
By order of Referee in Bankruptcy Judge Frank L. Upson a plow factory with iron covered foundry and patterns and a steel machine building with plow machinery will be sold at public auction at 12 oclock Monday July 12 1915 at the Referee in Bankruptcy office in Athens Georgia The property lies on the Seaboard Air Line Railway right of way and is listed as the Georgia Plow and Implement Company bankrupt Terms cash subject to court confirmation For details contact E J Bondurant Trustee Athens Va Cobb Erwin Rucker Attorneys for Trustee.
A 1908 case from Keyser West Virginia reports a patient with severe lung illness awaiting death who recovered after using Eckman’s Alterative. The letter claims dramatic improvement, notes no habit forming drugs, and promotes the product with pricing and contact details.
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