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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1911
Page
8
An assortment of small ads and notices including Fire Insurance offerings by Erwin & Company and a pitch for J C Jester. Local business promos such as poultry supplies at Marriott's and Bludwine as a merchant’s best seller. Classifieds advertise rooms, a hotel, a 1911 Marvel motorcycle for sale, shoe repair, and a medicine endorsement.
Local notes advertise Insurance Lipscomb & Co Real Estate Lipscomb & Co and bank offerings at Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest on deposits. Listings include used cars for sale two rooms for rent Cobb Street house for rent piano for sale upright mahogany case. Also demand for 100 meat packers for Hotel Sanges and Bludwine beverage promotions.
Personal and society items report Miss Melissa Davis traveling through the city to Tulsa to be hosted by Mrs. Fred Clinton and then with Dr. and Mrs. Clinton at their Colorado Springs summer cottage. Miss Gladys Epting returns from a two week Atlanta visit. Miss Amellie Morton of Lumpkin visits Mrs. R. F. Morton for the Georgia commencement season. Miss Ruth Wynne of Madison, a State Normal School graduate, visits her cousin Miss Alline Jones on the Boulevard.
Atlanta June 14 Trustees of the Georgia School of Technology plan to seek 10,000 more for maintenance from the state this summer. No building appropriation is sought this year, though a larger grant may come later. Last year 35,000 was secured for machinery. The institution hopes to reach 100,000 annually for future expansions as enrollment rises. Tolstoi dramas to be staged in Moscow next winter.
A fragmented note promotes Bludwine as the best drink claiming a dozen glasses daily for a few days improves mood and sleep while two to three glasses daily keep Foil feeling good.
The notice catalogs available goods including aluminum ware tin and enamel ware for sale as well as china glassware and silver plated table cutlery. It also lists building materials such as lime cement wall plaster white wash brushes cassimi wall colors paint and paint brushes.
Drought grips the eastern United States with New York City delaying wasteful use and cutting leakage. Yonkers faces half rations as Nepperhan River water dwindles, Grassy Spring limits use, and critics argue the Ten Mile and Housatonic rivers could have supplied NY more cheaply. Parishioner Rev Nathaniel Thomas Hafer resigns amid Gotham’s depravity charge. Burglars in East 116th Street scene alarm residents as police intervene. Pet dogs face duty on return from Europe under new tariff interpretations. Chamberlains Colic Remedy gain praise.
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