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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1912
Page
8
Classified items list services and wants including shoe repair at Martin Bros Clayton Street reference to Jester, job seeker's note from I care Banner, boarding at Hotel Sanges, wheel canopy for runabout from E D Sledge, second-hand cane mill sought through J C Fowler, calves available Suncrest, a good young cow for sale, and brick supply from Ga Brick Co with phone numbers.
Bank advertises 4 percent savings interest compounded January and July with deposits from 1.00. Also notes sale of vegetables eggs chickens lard and other offerings. Local businesses advertise wagons real estate exchanges and school offerings in a compact marketplace notice.
The Canajoharie Courier notes Mrs. Marie E. Nickerson of Athens Ga a benefactor who gives away fortunes while alive to North Georgia Orphans Home Settlement. She funded a cottage for girls at cost but the amount is not listed. She is celebrated as a saint and sister of the late Jacob H Cook of Fonda.
Special to the Basiner from Atlanta on July 18 asks what color Georgia’s bull moose will be. Democrats joke about brindle while Roosevelt supporters are unsure. J St Julien Yates leads the Georgia Roosevelt white league seeking bland unity amid factional debate.
A Northern Presbyterian pension plan for aged and disabled ministers becomes operative today in Chicago. Adopted at the Louisville general assembly last May the plan provides annuities from 100 to 500 dollars based on length of service.
Local store promotes Mason jars Porcelain Line top jars Sure Seal jars and Automatic Sealing Jar. Offers extra jar tops rubbers jelly glasses Tin Fruit Cans and large line refrigerators with installment options. Frost King ice cream freezers 50 minute freeze 20th Century Water Coolers galvanized and porcelain. Haveland Gamar English American porcelain and Gold Band China in open stock with many patterns. Everything for the house keeper phone 125 quick delivery.
Atlanta adds Macon financier E G Harris to its wealthy set by purchasing a Druid Hills lot on Fonce de Leon Avenue for 22509 cash and planning a 75000 residence. Harris, a South Georgian, built his fortune in farming and lumber before choosing Atlanta for permanent residence.
Atlanta on July 18 reports French waiter Louis Dupin of the Durand restaurant has learned he will receive a bequest of 150 000 francs from French relatives. The sum, worth about 30000 dollars, comes as a surprise to Dupin who is well known in Macon and other southern cities where he has worked.
COAL BIDS 1 will receive bids for seventy five tons of best anthracite hard coal and fifty tons of lost soft coal for August and September delivery to the city hall and city fire department. Contracts awarded July 29. Chairman T. Young. This July 13, 1912. Matinee for ladies only Colonial 4 45.
Monroe Ga July 18 A Walton county couple Mr and Mrs John Henry Smith claim to have grown a cabbage weighing 20 pounds and another stalk bearing 13 well developed heads with a central seed stem, a remarkable feat for the vegetable age.
A monkey broke into a local seed store yesterday afternoon in Atlanta. The animal overturned seed barrels and seed boxes, scattering the ig books and contents. Propr owners returned this morning and found the safe untouched.
Miss Anna Lewis daughter of W. G. Lewis sails to the Philippines to marry Prof. James Stewart, head of government schools there. The ceremony is planned in Manila with Mary Lewis, her sister, as bridesmaid who has taught in the Philippines and helped spark the match.
Atlanta July 18 postmaster Hugh Key declares that many young girls receive love letters through general delivery. He says girls as young as sixteen are contacted daily and that mothers would disapprove of the exchanges. He plans to ask Washington postal authorities for aid.
Brussels reports pour in as Prince Victor Napoleon marks his fiftieth birthday amid belief by many he may still claim the French throne. His recent marriage to Princess Clementine of Belgium boosted his standing, with Clementine's large inheritance from King Leopold widening prospects for the Bonapartist Pretender.
The fortieth anniversary of Benito Juarez's death was observed in Mexico City and major cities with the usual demonstrations and commemorations.
Sister Mary narrates a homeland letter introduce a Pennsylvania maiden and a distant schoolmaster. Photographs exchanged soon led to acceptance across oceans, linking two hearts through correspondence and a formal greeting.
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