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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1911
Page
15
Short notes list sales on real estate fire insurance shoe repair and many bargains at Rhodes Hardware Co. including oil stoves lawn mowers garden hose ice cream freezers and rents. Also notices for a boulevard cottage for rent and carpenters sought with various small ads from Athens Georgia merchants.
A compact collage of notices and ads from Lipscomb & Co fire insurance and real estate to local shop deals. Includes savings bank offer at Athens Savings Bank, Lookout Mountain potatoes for sale, Keen Kutter tools discount, porch rental, and Linton’s Spring Water promotions with several contact points. Also lists lost bicycle reward, shoe repair and shoe sole services, and miscellaneous rental and sale notices.
Dr Detchons Relief for Rheumatism claims to calm severe cases in hours with first dose benefits. Pills priced 75c and 1.00, sold by L P Canning at Clayton and Jackson. Also notes a carpenter E S Lopez carries Bucklen Amica Salve for cuts burns and skin ailments, advertised as a great healer at 25c.
A rural preacher from Allison Iowa extols Dr King's New Life Pills as vital for every home. The ad notes the pills cost 25 cents and are sold by W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Bons. It also promotes Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a quick home cure for diarrhoea and related illness available from local dealers.
Prof U H Davenport concluded an extensive auto trip through South Georgia yesterday. He traveled with his party beyond Dawson via Macon and picked up several companions along the way. Evaporated Cherries for pies advertised by Arnold and Abney with another shipment arriving.
In Philadelphia the Phillies defeated Detroit 14 to 6 with Coombs Essapp Mullin and Stanage picking up the battery. Atlanta beat Nashville 5 to 4 after eleven innings with Atkins Mc Murray Munson on the batteries. New Orleans had Montgomery listed as pitcher but no game due to rain. Mobile topped Birmingham 6 to 3 with Demaree Dunn and Wagner El Hot on the batteries. Chattanooga edged Memphis 8 to 4 in ten innings, Covaleski Higgins Fitz Adams on the mound. Also: local ad for snap beans 3 qts for 25c and shelled pecans and almonds from Arnold and Abney.
Fragmentary column reflects on generational speech and manners in Kansas politics. It references kinship, grammar, and a vague comparison to summers of 1069 and 1911, noting a Newton Republican as a point of context.
We offer six styles of Ice Tea Glasses from 75c to 1.50 per dozen and table tumblers from 35c per dozen. Porcelain table plates from 25c per set. English decorated porcelain dinnerware in open stock and American goods. Also silver plated table cutlery and a wide range of house furnishing items.
Local directory snippet lists H. T. Huggins and Company with telephone number 128 Broad Street, indicating available contact for clients.
The Clay Center Kansas Times reflects on aging and retreat to the soil for rest and recreation. It notes the instinct to work the land as a pure calling and cites biblical figures as examples of winding down with wisdom.
A Kansas Graphic cartoon extols the ten dollar bill as timelessly beautiful and revered. It claims the note calms, comforts, and even cures, likening its appeal to a shrine, while humorously noting its power at seances and its paradoxical status as both beloved and despised.
In a New York Mail tale a broker drills a lesson on honesty as an assistant fills a barrel with apples. The dealer instructs to stack small fruit on top and large fruit on bottom then to flip and label, exposing the farmer’s duplicitous motive.
A fragmentary note reflects on love and longing, mentioning a woman whose passion is intense yet short lived, leaving a melancholy impression on relationships and time.
A burglar who had stolen from Athens homes returned funds to Mr. Sheehey and a diamond ring to a nearby resident within two days. The thief’s publicity prompted the restitution, with the ring left in an envelope pinned to a door.
Postmaster General Hitchcock authorized a $4,000,000 raise for about 41,562 rural free delivery carriers, boosting standard route salaries by $100 and prorating shorter routes. The move, tied to the parcels post proposal, follows years of incremental increases beginning from 85 carriers at $200 annually.
The Sarepta Baptist Association gathers for its annual Sunday schools convention at First Baptist Church in Jefferson Georgia on July 18 and 19 with about three hundred attendees from nearby counties. Program includes devotional, enrollment, president's address, convention sermon by Rev Gilbert Dobbs, institute work led by Geo W Andrews, and sessions on Sunday schools and missions led by A S Parker.
The timetable shows 10:00 Institute work directed by Geo. W. Andrews and 11:00 missionary sermon by Rev. J. K. Kimsey. A 12:00 recess for lunch follows, then 1:30 miscellaneous tasks, and 2:00 another Institute session led by Geo. W. Andrews.
Rev. J. D. McPhail conducts a powerful week long gospel meeting at the Comer Presbyterian Church attracting many earnest hearers. The Comer paper praises the event as a rare spiritual feast for a town of Comer’s size and urges all to seek higher moral ground.
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