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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1913
Page
3
A sale offers house dresses priced from 1.50 to 3.50 with a bundled option at 1. The advert highlights a single dollar choice for a limited rack. Strong entities include dress items and the seller’s price cue. The notice emphasizes affordability and a quick selection window for shoppers.
A local dress sale offers one rack of linens ratines and corduroys once priced at 5.00 6.50 and 7.50 now available for 3.95 while supplies last. Shoppers are urged to come early for the value.
A local shop advertises white belts priced at 25 and 50 cents with a nice assortment of styles and a complete stock of colored belts available for selection.
The Banner notes the new fashion with coats showing an upward front line, often created by a trimming band. It covers two illustrated models, patterns in sizes 34 to 42 for coats and 22 to 30 for skirts, fabric needs, and color ideas from French influence. Also highlights a masculine dress 7798 with trimmed sections, and emphasizes combination corset cover and drawers as comfortable yet pricey for ready wear. Patterns and transfer designs available from Pattern Department in New York.
The letter from Edward L. Bishop of Atlanta endorses a simple preventative for red bug bites. He recommends rubbing powdered sulphur around the ankles and in shoes, claiming it keeps insects at bay. Bishop notes repeated success and suggests five cents’ worth serves fifty people.
Special to the Banner from Austin Texas July 22 the Texas legislature met in an extra session to address unfinished business Gov Colquitt submitted three subjects for action including biennial state government appropriations a constitutional amendment providing direct statewide election of US senators and a reform measure for the state penitentiary system
An advertisement states your complexion and temper suffer from a disordered liver and constipation. It recommends Chamberlains Tablets to improve both conditions and notes availability from all dealers.
New York July 22. Army and navy officials discussed a plan to rapidly mobilize food aid to large cities if railroad ties up. A famine rescue corps would be able to move milk meat and dairy supplies to sustain millions in an emergency, preventing starvation amid transport disruptions.
A year after Herman Rosenthal was killed, protected gambling and police corruption remain pervasive in the city. Public uproar has faded, with police plots claiming the crisis has subsided and vice flourishing at the suspected scene. New Yorkers appear to be moving on, even as sensational events recede from memory.
Rev. J. D McPhail former pastor of the Commerce Presbyterian church and current superintendent of Home Missions of the Athens Presbytery and assistant pastor in Athens Ga visited Commerce friends and parishioners. He is conducting meetings at Thyratira Presbyterian near Jefferson with notable success and is warmly welcomed by locals.
A Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertisement urges households to keep a bor n supply for burns cuts wounds and scalds. J H Polanco of Delville Tex reports its salve saved his girl’s cut foot. The claim is backed by local merchants and salesmen.
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