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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
6
It's a Good Thing It's a Good Thing to always have a clock in sight. Every home should be supplied with two or more clocks. Parlor hall kitchen bedroom and alarm clocks in great variety of styles and prices and all are guaranteed. It's a good thing also to have a handsome and dependable watch chain. Simmons make watches chains are shown for beauty of design quality of stock and fine workmanship.
Mrs Grover of Florida visits sister Mrs Fred Morton on Hill street. Miss Burnett returns from New York to Athens. Dr Brumby of Chattanooga visits old friends while Dr McNeill attends Atlanta Dental Convention. Miss Rosa Woodberry and Miss Anne Burnett travel to Atlanta. Yancey Harris hosts Mrs Hall of Augusta. Junior Auxiliary meets May 5 at 5 39 p.m. Sheriff Overby visits Athens.
A list of guests checked into the Hotel Imperial includes Philips W. Davis of Lexington Georgia Chas W Davis Jr Athens W O Morris Richmond Va Chas Vitter Jr Atlanta M B Schlessenger Atlanta J B Barton Atlanta W Y Albertson Philadelphia R J Swain Calhoun M L Thomas Bristol East Tenn I M Dean Indianapolis Fletcher H Birch Indianapolis Me D Fraser Atlanta H E Henry Indianapolis A J Street Buford M B Warner Atlanta J W Wilhite Elberton F C Smith Cincinnati Mrs Chas Morris and children Athens A T Smith Athens E M Sutton St Louis A H West Nashville and other names. On Fine Printing The Banner Leads.
A newspaper shopper notice promotes Michael Bros Co May Sales with ladies white lawn shirt waists, silk shirt waists, walking skirts, shirt waist suits, and department pick ups. It highlights yardage on white India lawn, batistes, linens, organdies, silks, wool dress goods, and parasols, fans, neckwear, hosiery, gloves and girdles at reduced prices.
Frederick Dumont Smith of Kinsley promotes Hoffmeister’s petroleum heated stove as a potential solution to Kansas fuel shortages. The device, tested in a cigar stove, uses crude oil fed from a tank to heat a 20 by 85 foot room, claiming two barrels equal a ton of coal in heating value.
Large stock of glazed Jardiniers and English and American porcelain sets at Huggins China House. Prices from 3c to 1.00. Haviland Austrian and plain white dinner sets in wide variety. Includes housekeepers supplies like Tinware Enameledware Glassware refrigerators ice boxes water coolers and more on Broad Street.
The article describes Hoffmeister’s claimed device a gravity fed spray of crude oil into ashes in a stove or furnace to heat a house or make steam power. It notes potential clogging if cooled and the need for automatic pressure to clear obstructions.
The Empire Laundry advertises prompt flat work services with low prices for sheets towels table cloths napkins and more. It touts a new mangle and dryer to ease washing and appeals to hotels restaurants and boarding houses while noting oil heating interest in western Kansas and Senator Smith’s remarks on fuel options.
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