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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1911
Page
3
A sweeping clearance offers half price on wash dresses, coats suits, skirts, silks, and lingerie. Silk bargains include 1000 yards of silks and foulards at low prices, with extensive discounts on underwear, petticoats, boys and children's wear, headwear, and towels. Bedding and linens follow at reduced rates with marked savings across departments.
Local ads offer room size 9x12 matting art squares at 4.95 with original 7.50 value. Axminster rug 25.00 now 17.50. Brussels rugs 18.50 14.00 and 16.50 12.50. Lace curtains discounted from 1.25 to 3.00 2.85. Scrims in colors and plain, 25c to 22c. Talcum powder 10c to 5c.
Catalog style notice lists dress trimmings 4 off, Japan valued items at 10c to 15c, handpainted desert plates 50c, scrim, hammocks, white floating soap, and stocking bargains. Highlights include 10c gauze stockings and 50c dozen goods, with many items described as odd lots selling well below original values.
Georgia forms a statewide drive to exhibit at the United States Land and Irrigation exposition in Chicago from November 18 to December 9, 1911. The Georgia Exhibit Association plans a full main-floor display with fruit, grain, cotton, tobacco and photo exhibits, aiming for about ten thousand dollars in funding from cities and citizens.
Indianapolis July 11 Quar tered at the state fair grounds are several hundred trotters and pacers for the Grand Circuit opening today and running through Saturday. The event features a 2 I 2 mile 2500 stake trot as the highlight of opening day with many promising stake trotters entered ahead of Detroit competition.
An old promotional item claims disease germs attack everywhere yet Electric Bitters purify blood and expel germs. It asserts quick relief from chills fever malaria and blood diseases with a money back guarantee. Available for 50c at local retailers W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Sons.
Advert sees Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy urged for immediate use at first signs of illness to reduce days lost. It notes summer child diarrhoea treatment with Chamberlain's Colic remedy and castor oil and claims a speedy cure, sold by all dealers.
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