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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
9
Real estate notes and insurance by Erwin and Company. Various local ads offer wall paper, shoe repairs, Bludwine flavors, painting and papering, and window screens. Mentions J. L. Arnold, Chas W Parr, and local phone details. Limited sales on whole versus half soles May begin May 1. Moss Mfg Co. advertisement with phone numbers.
Random classified items advertise bank deposits at four percent interest with semiannual compounding, household painting and paper hanging by J L Arnold and Chas W Parr, meals and boarding at local addresses, used cars for sale, table searchers for Summer at Hotel Ganges, rental rooms, lost fountain pen reward, and ongoing theater news featuring David Belasco and Frances Starr.
The Athens High and Industrial schools held a successful commencement with orations on law, order, and the South’s commercial outlook. Salutatorian Geneva Jefferson spoke on The Proper Regard for Law and Order. Valedictorian Juanita Jones addressed The Commercial Outlook of the South urging loyalty to Southern interests. Principal Harris received a token of respect as Dr. H. C. White urged African Americans to seize opportunities for world peace and share in progress. Rev. J. D. Mell and Prof. G. G. Bond attended. this marks one of the school year’s most successful efforts.
Athens resident W. M. Patten Testifies kidney pills eased back pain and kidney symptoms after two boxes. He reaffirmed satisfaction in 1911, noting continued use with reliable results. Doan's Kidney Pills sold nationwide by dealers for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. distributes in the U.S. Remember the name Doan's.
An advertisement states that $11,000 buys a two year financed handsome furnished two story residence two blocks from the Post Office. The 10 room house sits on a lot of 75 by 225 feet and includes all necessaries.
Mrs Laura Whiting died of tuberculosis at her home three miles southwest of Gainesville on May 30 at age 38. Funeral services were led by Revs J H Little and G T Chandler at the residence, with burial in Alta Vista Cemetery. She is survived by her husband and seven children.
Guaranteed pile cure backed by leading druggists. Dr Leonhardt Hem-Roid tablet taken internally promises to remove the internal cause where suppositories ointments or cutting fail. Large bottle $1.00 lasts about 24 days. Write for booklet from Dr Leonhardt Co Buffalo NY.
A catalog lists storage and kitchen items including refrigerators boxes freezers water coolers water filters fly fans fly traps churns and containers in aluminum tin enamel china glassware and silver plated cutlery. Building materials like lime cement plaster white wash brushes and wall colors are also offered.
A university student defends Miss Parrish head of pedagogy at State Normal School arguing Shackelford misrepresented her. The writer, a graduate and former pupil, claims peers resigned due to non election, praises Parrish's conduct, and asserts her departments are key to teacher training.
Yesterday on the Conway building site at Empire Steam Laundry, workers loosened wires of a tall smokestack. A heavy iron pipe fifty or sixty feet long fell but a carpenter stumbled on loose bricks just before the impact, narrowly avoiding being struck. The pipe toppled the wall, caused minor damages, and frightened a passing team horse that stepped on a nearby boy's foot.
Personal and social notes mention visitors and guests in one city, with names like Mrs M A Houston, Stella Sparks, Jessie McGregor, Virginia Bryan, Emma Hardeman, and Edward Smith. An appeal promotes Ely Cream Balm and Chamberlain's Colic Remedy, highlighting their uses and prices, followed by local advertisements and household tips.
May 29 Gainesville Ga. report says the bond commission action to destroy the old water plant is published though not authorized. The city charter requires unanimous council vote and a citizen vote after election for such sale. By installing two valves the two plants may be connected and the old standpipe cleaned at nominal cost.
After you take Dr King’s New Life Pills constipation indigestion and poor appetite vanish. They regulate stomach liver and bowels and impart new strength and energy to the whole system. Only 25 cents at W J Smith and Co and H R Palmer and Sons.
The annual meeting of the policy holders of The Southern Mutual Insurance Company will be held at the company's office in Athens Ga on Tuesday June 6 1911 at 11 a m. A E Griffith secretary.
Civil war veterans militia groups and civic societies joined a large Memorial day parade in Columbus. Veterans marched to Memorial Hall where former Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Cincinnati delivered the day’s oration. An unrelated blurb touts Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets claiming digestive health benefits.
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