Quality Fair Dealing Builds Great Business Start
A brief 1914 report notes a small beginning backed by quality fair dealing and well directed effort driving strong early growth. May sales reached 1,539,486 bottles as evidence of rapid progress.
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1914
Page
10
A brief 1914 report notes a small beginning backed by quality fair dealing and well directed effort driving strong early growth. May sales reached 1,539,486 bottles as evidence of rapid progress.
Georgia Clarke County petition for incorporation of Nazarene Army Rescue Workers a charitable benevolent group to operate hospitals infirmaries schools reformatories and other institutions for twenty years with rights to hold property borrow lend and manage funds and to act as trustee. This notice certified by Clerk J Elmer Crawford on May 30 1914 and signed by Mahaffy and Mahaffy Attorneys. Onions as a diet linked to skin eruptions and renewed skin health.
Special Correspondence from Atlanta reports Judge John G. Hart, state tax equalizer, says Georgia is a million dollars in debt and that the new tax equalization act will lift valuations nationwide. He notes counties add back land and hidden property to the digest, turning prior losses into gains, and that digests show higher valuations this year.
Detroit outfielder Tyrus R. Cobb was jailed after allegedly pointing a revolver at a man who Cobb says insulted his wife over a fish purchase. The incident left Cobb with a broken thumb and sidelined him for several days.
Washington June 20 The president sent a letter to the senate banking and currency committee commending Thomas D Jones of Chicago nominated for the federal reserve board Opposition among senators to nominees prompted the letter The committee was reviewing nominees and gathering information Secretary McAdoo received extensive papers on the proposed members Those with the president s letter will be considered before confirmation
Mr and Mrs Albert Davison have moved into a handsome new residence on Woodlawn Avenue in Athens The house reflects the couple s taste for beauty comfort and convenience Woodlawn Avenue is noted as a premier residential area in Athens
Notice states shops close at seven o'clock from June 22 to September 14 signed by Hilley Jones Thompson Bryant Leopard Cooper and others. The fragmentary text lists multiple signatories and indicates a seasonal closing period.
Mrs Annie F Dobbs died unexpectedly at her Meigs street home after heart trouble. Funeral set for Monday 10:30 at home with Rev Grubb. interment in Oconee cemetery. She lived in Athens 17 years, survived by three daughters and three sisters, with many nephews and nieces. Funeral pallbearers are six nephews. She was a Christian and valued neighbor and mother.
Yesterday morning Ben Randolph, one week old, died at Baldwin street the child of Mr and Mrs J E Wills. The funeral will be held at the home this afternoon at 4 o'clock with burial in Oconee cemetery.
Washington June 20 Senator Smoot warned in the senate that without a change in the present trend of business conditions there would be disastrous results. He cited the treasury report showing May imports up nearly thirty million dollars and exports down thirty three million from 1913, plus gold shipments to Europe. Senator Hollis blamed foreign distrust of American stocks after the New Haven and Frisco collapses for capital flight, while Senator Owen named three groups controlling twenty two billion dollars and most railroads and big industries, able to restrict equipment purchases and workforce and to influence the fall elections. The exchange ended with a ten minute debate and a return to routine business.
President Ban Johnson announced after a national commission meeting that a plan for a third major league is practically consummated. The proposed league would include four International and four American Association teams, with eight teams moved to a new minor league. Club owners discussed a three cornered post season for the world championship.
An appeal was filed in the US Supreme Court from a Maryland court order appointing a receiver to hold Edward C. Painter's vital organs. Painter, a Jacksonville Florida capitalist, drowned from a ferryboat in April 1913. The insurer claimed exam rights under the policy, delaying burial while a chemical examination proceeded.
The Dorsey Furniture Company yesterday added a new ambulance department with a modern vehicle built by James Cunningham and Sons of Rochester New York. The service will operate day and night with three on call attendants and dedicated phone numbers for inquiries.
The Georgia Apple Association formed in Cornelia will join the Georgia State Horticultural Society for a midsummer meeting in Griffin on August 5 and 6. Plans aim to boost North Georgia apples through advanced horticulture, with experts like T. H. McHatton and R. C. Berchmans attending. A farm tour will include the Spalding County Test Farm and Sunshine Farm near Griffin, noted for apple sales in 1913.
A June 20 London report notes suffrage militants interrupted David Lloyd George's speech. The crowd ducked male protesters in an artificial lake while women were chased from the grounds amid hostility and disorder.
President Wilson reports improved outlook for mediation after a conference with Ambassador Naon of Argentina. Secretary Bryan remains hopeful despite the Niagara Falls deadlock as mediators plan to resume talks Monday and search for a suitable Mexican provisional president.
Five thousand federals pursuing General Nateras north of Zacatecas were routed yesterday by Villa's vanguard. Federals abandoned equipment and provisions as Constitutionalists captured valuable munitions. Villa moves south toward Zacatecas.
Athens hosts a unique monthly periodical named the Hiawassee Messenger. It has one copy issued each month with rotating editors, no advertising, ten illustrations, no subscribers or debts, and limited show ads. The paper includes editorial content, local news, a magazine section, poems, and features.
In Lethbridge Alberta on June 20 Associated Press reports the bodies of ninety four miners recovered from Hill Crest colliery after a collapse in the tomb. Rescue efforts for the remaining one hundred three are abandoned with no hope of survivors. Three rooms for light housekeeping listed with phone 87. Advertisement for Jockey Club Coffee included.
The new board consisting of Cobb Lamps kin Geo Palm er and Davis met yesterday and worked five hours, from 9 to 12 and 3 to 5, instead of three hours as prior. Their salary is four dollars a day. Early indications show little tax change once they finish. Clarke county property valuations remain comparatively equitable.
Prof S P Orr will open his private summer term tomorrow June 22. The program aims to aid boys and girls and older pupils who failed to advance in public school and to help with the upcoming public school opening. Some will find the summer term specially valuable.
Emory and Claud Cofield, two young Walton County men, were arrested last night near police headquarters for alleged drunkenness and disorderly conduct. A pistol was seized from one of them, and resisting officers formed part of the incident.
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