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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1912
Page
8
For sale a desirable Milledge Avenue property with ample grounds. The listing notes value increasing daily and suggests a well improved cottage on Franklin Street as an alternative, suitable as an investment or a home for a young couple.
A prominent neighbor county citizen visiting Athens mistook a drug store for a movie house on Broad Street. He invited an officer inside to view the pictures and displayed a Pint bottle bearing a personal guarantee of R. M. Rose, but the guarantee did not act as collateral at the station.
The spirited contest between Governor Donaghey seeking a third nomination and Congressman Joe T. Robinson opposing him will conclude with the Democratic state primaries on March 27.
Clarke county teachers heard talks from Supt Dozier on school progress and a panel on penmanship standards. Visitors and local leaders praised education aims while resolutions urged cooperation with the WCTU luncheon hosts and county officials.
Samuel Gompers notes the cigar industry union men have gained about 16 years in average life since the 8 hour day, and tuberculosis deaths have fallen from 50 percent to 19 percent as a health measure.
A general strike by all trade union members is ordered in Bris bane Queensland in support of striking streetcar workers demanding permission to wear union buttons.
Classified listing shows 56 piece white porcelain dinner set for 3.00 and 100 piece white porcelain set for 5.00. Also a 7 piece gold decorated dinner set priced at 5.0. Local sale item appears incomplete with trailing "a".
Judge George Thomas, long time city court solicitor in Athens, achieved a legal milestone this week in Madison County at Danielsville Superior Court. He defends Hez Stevens, a Black man charged with wife murder, with March 29 as the hang date after a legal contest culminating in a Supreme Court defeat for the defense. The case began with the defendant seeking counsel from Judge Thomas but lacking funds, forcing court appointment of counsel. Col. Max Michael was also named as counsel in the proceedings.
The city police officer John Short conducts an on site experiment at City Hall campus using rescued cabbage plants from Broad street. He fertilizes the soil with nitrate of soda and compares their growth to wild onions overrunning the area. The cabbages thrive while onions spread, becoming the leading greenery at the city hall lot and county courthouse campus.
Prof. Sam Harris leader of the colored public school and promoter of the Black Mammy Memorial Institute has land secured and the building program under way. He will tour with a top quartet to entertain in old dialect, explaining the institute’s aims while performing in cities including Augusta at the Hampton Terraces hotel.
A collage of labor items notes unions forming in Charleston West Virginia and Liverpool. It cites a Portuguese federation proclaiming a general strike and talks of universal apprentice programs. It lists May conventions in Chicago and New York plus wage gains in Bremen.
Short notes list real estate rentals farms loans and services. items include four room cottage on Barber street for rent, one-horse farm on Central road near Athens, Lynn Plumbing Co. ads phone numbers 599 95 408 and 890, Jester insurance mention, Moler Barber College training positions, Stone's pork sausage 15c lb, Dunwoody flour at grocers, and a $20 000 loan offer on real estate.
The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded semiannually with deposits starting at $1.00. Also advertised are groceries and services from local merchants including Stone’s and Dunwoody’s Best Flour. Public notices include for rent and stray livestock listings.
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