Local Merchant Offers Services and Goods in Athens
Short notes list offerings from Lipscomb Jester insurance and Martin Brothers shoe repair 455 Clayton with parcel post return policy. Southern Electric Co advertises wiring fixtures and prompt service 288 Lumpkin St Herald building. Also Maxwell Runabout for sale and other small notices including lost envelope on College Ave, and vo biliousness remedy ads.
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Martin Brothers
Clayton Street
Southern Electric Co
Lumpkin St
Herald Building
Savings Bank pays 4 1F cent interest on deposits
Short notes advertise Athens Savings Bank offering 4 1F percent interest compounded on January 1 and July 1 deposits of $1.00 or more. The page lists various rental houses, sale items, farm produce, boarding at Wayside Inn, lost pin reward, waterworks Sunday invitation, and a cooking guide by Miss Edith Blackford.
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Athens
Athens Savings Bank
GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC PROMISES STRENGTH
An advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general strengthening tonic for adults and children. It claims to invigorate the pale and sickly, enrich the blood, and build up the system.
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Grove
Mr F H Lambert visits Athens to discuss Singer sales
Mr F H Lambert general manager of Singer Sewing Machine Co Atlanta spent yesterday in Athens on business. The Athens office and surrounding territory have proven successful under local manager W R Tindall whose efforts are praised. Edith Blackford of Toledo Ohio will visit Athens next week.
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Edith @lackford
Toledo
Athens
F. AT. Lambert
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Atlanta
W. R. Tindall
Tindall
Edith Blackford
Ohio
Major General Leonard Wood Ordered to Command Eastern Dept
Washington reports Major Leonard Wood, former army chief of staff, is ordered to New York to assume command of the Eastern Department. The move follows his April assignment to the department and signals officials do not anticipate a Mexican campaign advance.
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Associated Press
Washington
Caperal Leonard Wood
Army
New York
Wood
Garrison
Mexico
Athens Amends Piano and Organ License Tax Provisions
The mayor and council adopted an amendment to the piano and organ dealer license tax ordinance. It inserts the words Agent or Dealer between Agent and Selling to levy a 25 dollar occupation tax on agents or dealers selling pianos and organs. Miss Edith Blackford will be here next week.
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Athens
City of
Sereby
Sagent
Johnson to Fight Moran in Paris Twenty Round Title Match
Paris June 26 Jack Johnson the world heavyweight champion and Frank Moran of Pittsburgh will clash for twenty rounds here tomorrow night for the title. Moran shows marked improvement in training while Johnson is favored three to one at betting. Be sure to hear Miss Blackford talk next week.
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Associated Press
Paris
Jack Johnson
Frank Moran
Pittsburgh
Moran
Johnson
Open Cars Delight Street Car Patrons
Patrons praised the return of open street cars, finding them cooler and more comfortable in hot weather. Conductors gain more fare collection work, but riders prefer open cars to the summer pay-as-you-enter model and hope the entire fleet stays open.
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H. R. Palmer & Sons
Adv
J P Harmon and Company Specials for Today
J P Harmon and Co offers eggs 20 cents a dozen fresh country butter 25 cents a pound and fries priced 25 to 45 cents. Located at 174 Cleveland Ave and phone 1187.
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Cleveland Ave
Woodmen of the World Convention Addresses Delivered
Messrs. Carl A. Von der Lieth and W. Frank Dobbs spoke at Union Point yesterday before the Woodmen of the World convention gathered from this region to hear their addresses.
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Messrs
Carl A. von der Lieth
W. Frank Dobbs
Union Point
Columbia Wins Intercollegiate Eight Championship
Columbia won the intercollegiate eight-oared rowing championship in a four mile final race. Pennsylvania finished second, Cornell third, Syracuse fourth, Washington fifth, and Wisconsin sixth.
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Associated Press
New York
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Syracuse
Washington
Wisconsin
Ivey Seeks Refund of License Tax After Fire
W A Ivey owner of Delmar Dairy Lunch Rooms asked the council for a refund of part or all of this year’s license tax after his building on the Talmage estate was destroyed by fire in May. He had paid a full year’s tax from April 1913 to April 1914 and again a full year on April 1 this year, though in business less than eight months. The council took no action.
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Council
W.A. Ivey
Delmar
Talmage
Ivey
Special Stock-Reducing Sale in Georgia Stores
A stock taking sale offers 30 days of reductions on Dinner Sets, Dinner Ware, Crystal Glass, Rogers Silverware, and related items. Prices range from 6 to 50 dollars for 100 piece sets, plus open stock options. A wide display promises variety and value to attract customers.
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Rogers
Georgia
Outdoor Sports Promotion Sparks Active Living
Community advertises outdoor games and athletics with a full stock of healthy supplies and equipment. Local retailer invites shoppers to view offerings and participate in active outdoor leisure.
Athens team to Madison for rain halted game
A ball team from Athens traveled to Madison to challenge the Madisonians. Rain halted the game after three innings with the Athen ians leading one to nothing. Corley pitched three innings with five strikeouts.
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Madison
Athens
Madisonians
Corley
City official tallies license taxes at cemetery scene
Morning activity in the city saw Mr. J. H. Mealor of the city marshal's office seize a license payment from a non resident monument salesman in a cemetery before sunrise. The record highlights his persistence in enforcing the license levy.
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J. H. Mealor
Machine to Do the Sprinkling Sweeping and Flushing Streets
A communication from Alderman Hugh Gordon reports Stu debaker Company of South Bend Indiana asks consideration of a pneumatic flusher priced at 900 dollars. The device would combine street sprinkling sweeping and flushing surface sewers and was referred to the street committee for future consideration.
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Hugh Gordon
Studebaker Company
South Bend
Ind
Catholic Church Faces Constitutionalist Hostility in Mexico
Archbishop Francisco Navarrete of Linares and Archbishop Francisco Orozco Y. Jimenez of Guadalajara met Brazil's Minister Deoliviera in Mexico City to discuss what they called a hostile constitutionalist stance toward Catholicism. The Linares archdiocese reports expulsions of priests and church closures as evidence. The Brazilian minister will forward the archbishops' statements to Washington, seeking U S pressure to halt the anti religious crusade.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Francisco Navarrete
Linares
Francisco Orozco Y. Jimenez
Guadalajara
Deoliviera
Brazil
State Department
Washington
Charge Bateman Ran a Fake Pool Room Damages Awarded
Atlanta judge awards J. M. Bateman five thousand dollars in damages against Frank Rothleutner a Nebraskan who sought twenty thousand against Bateman for alleged fake pool room operations. Bateman had filed libel suit for twenty five thousand after Rothleutner’s dismissal. Rothleutner claimed Bateman handed a chain of fake pool rooms in Atlanta Miami Palm Beach and other cities.
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Bateman
Associated Press
Atlanta
J. M. Bateman
Frank Rothleutner
Rothreutner
Rothfeutner
Miami
Palm Beach
Tallulah Emancipating the Women of Georgia
Special to the Banner reports Georgia farm wives along the Tallulah Falls to Atlanta power line finding freedom from old kitchen ranges. Electricity powers electric stoves, lights, and motors, transforming homes and letting women enjoy modern conveniences once reserved for city dwellers.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Tallulah Falls
Aladdin
Rural Folk Embrace Electricity At Home
The piece notes country folk adopting electrical comforts previously seen as city luxuries. It mentions washing machines sewing machines and baby cradles wired for power and the use of a whirl ing electric fan to cool down after a hard day. Misses Isabelle and Minnie Thomas will return home from Atlanta next week.
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Isabelle
Minnie Thomas
Atlanta
Tooting Quip Sparks Light Exchange
Cholly quips about a girl who would not marry the best man while Reggie probes. Cholly reveals he asked the girl directly, confirming her stance in a witty exchange.
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Tooting
Cholly
Reggie
Cleaning Tinware Process
Clean tinware by washing in hot soapsuds then drying thoroughly. Dust with dry flour using an old newspaper to apply.
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Fidelity Underwriters
America
Milledge
Harris
Hancock Streets
Milledge Avenue
Ew Street
R. T. Goodwyn Realty Company
Southern M Mutual
Insurance & Real Estate
Lipscomb
J.C. Jester
Crucedale
Athens Cycle Co
Maxwell
Care Baner
James W. Morton
Best
G. F
Care Banner
Jockey Club
Temple Cottage
Paris Cottage
Wrightsville Beach
N.C
T. Edgerton
Prop
Wed-Tri-Sun
College
Clarke County
Banner
Toom House
A. H. Davenport
Jersey-Holstein
R. N. Anderson
Farmington
Talmadge Bros
Mfor
Hancock Ave
Harris St
Boulevard
Wynburn Ave
A. H. Davison
Wayside Inn
Hancock Avenue
L. S. Dye
J. C. Wardlaw
Cobb Street
F. H. Hamilton
Grady Avenue
J. W. Inglett
MR. F.H. Lambert
Holman
D. G. Anderson & Co
Miss Blackford
J.P. Harmon
MR. Ivey
H. T. Huggins & Son
the McGregor
Newton Street
James Camb
Louis Camak
John Bird
Prince Avenue
Sewer Committee
Lipscomb & Company
THE
Athens Audit CO
J. F. Hart
American State Bank
Athens, GA
Howell C. Erwin
J. Warren Smith
Tallulah
Kuppenheimer
Broad
Jackson Sts
Broad and
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