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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1913
Page
2
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1 and July 1, with deposits from $1. Hydrangeas for sale and a lost sow pig offer appear alongside. The notice promotes Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential for summer, urging purchase through dealers.
Bankruptcy notice for Mrs J B Burch of Athens Clarke County Georgia announces first meeting of creditors at Referee's Office Athens June 5 at 1 o clock in the forenoon. Frank L Upson Referee in Bankruptcy dated June 17 1913.
Wholesalers and retailers offered Mason Fruit jars Sure Seal glass tops jelly glasses in pint quart and half gallon sizes. Also available ice boxes refrigerators cream freezers water coolers and eve rything in china glass enamel tin and aluminum ware shushes brooms and general house furnishing wares in car load lots.
Special to the Banner reports Gainesville revival meetings across four churches boosting membership by about 20 percent in 50 days. First Baptist gained 84 members. First Methodist added around ten. St Pauls and Presbyterian saw smaller gains as revival results unfold. The piece also notes chamber of commerce milestones and plans.
Letters from Alle s Woodall of Stone Mountain and Jesse Borders of LaGrange praise corn club work. Woodall describes pine straw mulch and a Sunny South planter with guano. Borders details breaking tough bottom land with a single plow, harrow, roller, and careful soil management. About 16000 club members in 142 counties provide daily reports, hailed as the most encouraging yet.
Judge Brand presides at the superior court to receive University of Georgia law graduates into practice as they finish senior year. Judge W T Newman of the federal court will admit the new lawyers to practice in the federal court this week.
The twenty sixth annual convention of the American Association of Local Freight Agents opens in Huttalo with about 300 members from major railroad centers in the United States and Canada. Discussions focus on freight traffic matters including storage charges standard forms and station work distribution. C E Cordhran of Baltimore serves as president.
Mt Vernon Masonic Lodge No 22 meets Thursdays at Masonic Hall Clayton St. Keystone Chapter No 1 Royal Arch Masons meets the third Tuesday at 8 pm in Max Joseph building. Athens BPOE No 790 meets Wednesdays at 8 45 pm at Broad and Lumpkin. Athens Nest No 1460 OO O holds Fridays at 8 30 pm. Glenn Lodge No 75 IOOOF meets Tuesdays in Odd Fellows Hall Clayton and Jackson. Williams Lodge No 15 IOOF meets Mondays in Ode Fellows Hall. St Elmo Lodge No 40 K of P meets Mondays at Castle Hall Max Joseph building Clayton and Wall. Geo Davis Camp 252 W C W meets Wednesdays at Woodmen Hall Talmage building Clayton St. first and third Sundays for business. second and fourth for drill.
Special correspondence from Atlanta covers a drug case appeal by Dr W W McAfee after a 30 day stockade sentence for selling dope to cocaine heads. It also reports Ray Fowler’s suicide and funeral, zoo lion cubs deaths from heat, and Judge Pendleton fining Edward Fleding for contempt with a jail threat.
The piece advises writing a brief antecedent letter when introducing a friend to another, kept on personal note paper in an unsealed envelope, avoiding unhappy topics and personal experiences. It warns against unnecessary references and stresses punctuality and decorum, noting sensitive social cues such as child dress.
Fragmented items report on John B electrical device, Earth's desert area estimate, new banknote size, marriage licenses policy, New York Free School Society origin, and Massachusetts tax committee discussion. Names and dates are unclear due to OCR errors, but topics span technology, geography, currency, marriage laws, education, and taxation.
A vintage ad touts Dr Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil as a one day cure for throat tickling and coughing. It promises antiseptic relief, full directions with each bottle, price 23c and $1.00 sizes, and urges use to stop coughs quickly.
A scrambled list of attributed maxims and misquotes appears, naming Dean Swift Keats Franklin Coke and others. The attributions are inconsistent and include errors or irregular spellings. The passage resembles a playful catalog of famous lines with dubious authorship.
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