Society notes highlight meetings and obits in Athens
In Athens society pages Mrs. Alice Adams hosts a women’s group while others announce suffrage talks by Mrs. McDougal of Atlanta and a Women’s Club program at City Hall. Also listed are club meetings, memorial notices for Mrs. Moore, charity sales at Sanford Field, and local social events surrounding Georgia Tech and Mississippi A. and M. football opener.
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McDougal
Suffrage League
Atlanta
Lucy Stanton
League of Athens
Woman’s Club
Athens Woman’s Club
City Hall
Thomas Green
H. C. Conway
M. A. Lipscomb
A. E. Crawford
Fila F. White Memorial
Ella F. White
Mountain City
Georgia
Roberta Hodgson
Community Guests and Visitors Reported Throughout the Week
Numerous residents and visitors are noted in Carlton and nearby towns. Atlanta and Augusta guests shared hospitality with local families, while other visitors came from Comer Bowman Watkinsville Lexington Elberton and High Shoals. The piece ends with a humorous tale of a couple’s rain day marriage proposal on a newly laid lot.
100 Beautiful and Colored Post Cards Bargain Offer
The Central Manufacturing Co of Dayton Ohio offers 100 beautiful and colored post cards with a free self filling fountain pen. Cards valued individually at one dollar are offered for 50 cents postpaid to lovers of nature and rare art pictures.
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Central Manufacturing CO
Dayton
Ohio
Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil Ad
A vintage ad touts Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil as a surgical dressing that relieves pain and heals wounds. Sold in 25c and 1.00 sizes as a blood poisoning preventative.
Old Bridges of Lucerne Highlight Timbers and Tales
Lucerne hosts two ancient covered bridges, the Kapellbrücke and a nearby historic span. The Kapellbrücke reportedly dates from the mid fourteenth century, while the octagonal Wasserturm offers legends of Roman origins and medieval fortifications.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Iron and Steel
Cient
Reuss
William Tell
Train Takes Hen and Nest at Indiana Station
A brown hen belonging to Daniel Coleman near the C E I passenger station in Oaktown Indiana used the railroad rolling stock as a nest. She laid an egg daily in various cars and announced each arrival. After days of eluding the family, she vanished when a box car door closed and she was last seen bound for Terre Haute.
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Oaktown
Ind
Daniel Coleman
Coleman
Terre Haute
Conservatively styled luncheon set embroidery pattern 14669
Readers receive transfer pattern 14669 for a 36 inch centerpiece and doilies. Includes stamping designs, linen 42 inch wide, 2 1/2 yards, white mercerized cotton threads sizes 20 and 25, and instructions for scalloped edge and basket flowers with eyelets or solid work. Price 15 cents.
Young Potter A Deckhand Found On Board Barque
Salem Massachusetts three days after disappearing from Milton boarding school William Delano Potter seventeen year old son of Harvard University assistant librarian was found aboard a coal barge he had joined as a deckhand hoping to see the world barge to sail within 48 hours his father notified and he is being held pending arrival.
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Salem
Mass
Milton
William Delano Potter
Harvard University
Man Seriously Injured After 20 Foot Fall From Tree
Ellen Chapel Harry Kochen derfer is in precarious condition from injuries after tumbling 20 feet from a tree while trimming. He detached a support and fell with the ladder, fracturing his nose knocking out four teeth cutting his tongue and causing minor injuries.
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Ellen Chapel
Harry Kochenderfer
Spoopendyke
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Digestion Relief
An advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a safe candy flavored remedy that relieves sour stomachs and indigestion in five minutes. It claims the formula neutralizes gastric gas, headaches, and heartburn, improves appetite, and eliminates need for laxatives or liver pills.
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Pape
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alice Adams
Eugene Sheldon
New York Times
Washington Star
Miss Stanton
C. C. Jarrell
Oxford
Emmanuel Church Guild
Sanford Field
Missisippi A
Mr. Monteith Flanigen
Tech
Mrs. C. D. Flanigen
W. S. Robison
Toccoa
W. D. Ellis, Jr
Adgate Ellis
Elise Davison
Comer
Susie Davison
W. P. Egbert
Misses Egbert
Augusta
J. M. Allen
B. T. Moseley
Janie Lee Moseley
Willie Sue Gwyn
Danielsville
George Whitehead
Carlton
Memie Cann
Abbeville, S. C
S. M. Mewbourne
Bowman
B. L. Betts
George Barron
Lexington
Hamilton McWhorter, Jr
City
W. H. Booth
Watkinsville
E. J. Crowley
Alice Crowley
W. T. Witcher
Elberton
William Arnold
Mildred Rutherford
Brewer
C. B. Durham
A. C. McClure
Miss Ruarks
High Shoals
Selesta
Anna Mae Wood
Marrie
Tailoring
E. J. Dorsey
Train
Biddy
Chas. Stern Co
Clayton St
Margaret Lawrence
Young Potter
Harvard
Madame Dougherty
W. T. Collins & CO
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