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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1916
Page
13
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1 and July 1 with deposits starting at $1. Also listed are local real estate and miscellaneous ads including a six room house on Grady Avenue, extra Saturday work for a teacher, cabbage plants, Concord grape vines, eggs for sale, and olive oil advertised by Athens merchants.
An old advertisement extols Sloan's Liniment for drafts causing neuralgia stiff neck and sore muscles. It claims rapid relief from neuralgia neuritis and rheumatic pain with just one or two applications stimulating circulation and easing discomfort. Price listed as 5 cents at the druggist.
The National Bank of Athens celebrated its fiftieth anniversary on February 20 with a commemorative souvenir book. The piece highlights the bank's role in Athens development, lists founders and directors, notes four presidents and three cashiers, and honors Capt. James White and John White with key leadership across the bank's history.
The ad promotes high grade tungsten lamps claiming twice the light for the same cost and urges customers to place orders for home use. It highlights sanitary value for damp days and provides the Broad Street contact with phone number 125. Beacham listed as assistant bookkeeper.
Fragmentary OCR shows a questioned adjustment of 2,700,001 379,399 76 and reserves for contingencies of 525,857.16 and 300,890.46, with other claims unspecified. The text lacks context, dates, or entities to identify the parties or actions involved.
By order of the Clarke Superior Court Ordinary a public sale will occur on the first Tuesday in March 1916. The one acre tract lies south of Jesse Ganns lot east of William Hallman lands and west of Rock Spring street. The land was conveyed to William Williams by Elizabeth Childers in 1866. Sale at the courthouse door between legal hours. address 447 Rock Spring Street between Baxter and Springdale.
On the first Tuesday in March 1916 the tract belonging to Melita J Williams via R L Bloomfield will be offered at public sale in Clarke County Georgia. The description covers two acres more or less with specified boundary lines and corner stakes. J H Williams as administrator acts for Melita J Williams.
State of Ohio Toledo city serine Cheney swears partnership with F J Cheney Co that firm will pay 100 dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure Frank J Cheney sworn Dec 6 before Notary A W Gleason. Cure taken internally and claimed to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Send for pamphlet and pills for constipation.
The Jackson county mass meeting fixed the county primary for April 5 and set March 25 as the deadline to file for county offices. John F. Shannon was re elected chairman and John F. Holder named secretary. A key resolution barred Democratic candidates from subscribing to school or church funds or endorsing notes during the county race.
The 1916 season finale features Christian College against the Athens Y M C A lightweights on the Y M C A court at 8:30. Local stars Lanier Cox Quillian Goodman and Fears pace a fast, disciplined lineup with Pease Cutler and Parham for the visitors. Tickets are 25 cents as both teams seek a decisive, entertaining win.
Advert says fall to spring coughs plague many. Dr King’s New Discovery claims almost immediate relief by stopping the coughing and healing inflamed airways. Endorsed by W C Jedseman of Franconia with money back guarantee.
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