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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1912
Page
8
For sale a Milledge Avenue property with large grounds and improving Hancock Avenue residence. Also a Franklin Street cottage with modern improvements. Three houses on Lumpkin Street and several central business properties offered with small cash down and long-term terms.
Police seek a miscreant after a stray bullet cracked the open window of a city dentist’s office. The incident occurred about eight thirty p m when the doctor, alone and busy, felt the leaden messenger strike the door and dent the frame.
R E Collins postmaster Barnegat New Jersey suffered severe influenza coughs and exhaustion after fits of coughing. He bought Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and before finishing it his coughing spells ceased. He says it cannot be beat.
The University Y M C A conducts a class on the negro with 25 men. Chancellor Barrow leads the discussion using Dr. Weatherford's book. The third session covers health and housing, noting rising living standards, crowded conditions, tuberculosis disparities, high infant mortality, and social issues tied to race.
Mr. Will Williams, long trusted in the trade, promotes Lynn Plumbing Co offering guaranteed plumbing work. Contact by phone 599. Mr. Harry Parr invites inquiries from friends. Framing suggests a local business notice urging customers to call for reliable service.
A resident at 803 E Olive St Bloomingdale Illinois reports severe backache from kidney trouble. He says Kidney Pills gave rapid relief and enables him to work a full day without adverse effects.
Athens sisters take up a rain battered case of a mother with three children left destitute by a husband who fled to Alabama. The Banner joins Mrs Hutchins and Mrs Hulme to furnish a six room boarding house near the Boulevard so she can support herself and care for the children. They seek furniture and donations from locals to outfit the home and begin the venture with six rooms rented at fifteen dollars a month.
The case centers on a reported phone call to police about E H Grace shot in his home. Officers broke in to find him wounded and a suspect in the wife Mrs Grace, who denied the shooting but offered no details. Grace is seriously hurt but not expected to die.
The piece praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as valuable aid for mothers supporting child welfare. It warns that unchecked colds can lead to bronchitis or pneumonia and claims the remedy yields quickly to Foley's soothing properties.
Real Estate Erwin and Company offers listings while fire insurance questions are posed to J C Jester. For Rent four room cottage on Barber Street and six room apartment on Cobb Street near car line. Lynn Plumbing Co advertises services and Dunwoody’s Best Flour. Items include glove cleaning, shoe refurbishing, frame making, farm listings, and job ads for barber training. Local businesses advertise eggs, poultry, and farm settings.
The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded monthly. Deposits from $1.00 accepted. Advertises use of savings habit and guarantees customer satisfaction. Also lists local ads for rentals, livestock, boarders, a used car for sale, seeds, eggs for hatching, and a stock purchase offer from Citizens Bank & Trust Company.
City detectives investigated a dynamite blast at the Lucy Cobb Institute property. A crater large enough for a horse and carriage appeared near the campus center after an explosion reported around 1 AM yesterday. A teacher said they did not hear the blast.
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