Local Classifieds Highlight Bank Offer and Goods in Athens
Short notes from Athens cover savings at Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent on deposits, plus a parade of shop and service ads. John L Arnold touts stock wallpaper and painting. Martin Brothers advertise shoe repair and harness. various second hand goods, room to rent, lumber and wood, boarders sought, trombone for sale, flowers from Jones Green house, lost keys, and a piano from D P Haselton Music House tied to a Chautauqua event.
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Chautauqua
D. P. Haselton Music House
Special Notice and City School Coal Bids 1914
Insurance chatter and local business grievances precede a formal Special Notice by state bank examiner W. C. Martin and a City School bid call. The examiner requests Citizens Bank deposit slips and the school board seeks sealed bids for 158 tons soft coal and 129 tons coke for June and September delivery to Athens schools.
Ten Thousand Dollars to Loan on City Property
Advertisement announces a lender offering loans of $1,000 or more on city property or improved farm lands. The notice specifies a $10,000 loan capacity and directs inquiries to Box 438 in the 103 St weekly.
County officials meet. court houses move planned
The county commissioners held a semi monthly session yesterday handling routine business. They moved toward relocating courthouse offices to the new building and conducted other detail work. Justice of the peace courts continued with minor civil matters. The board of education met with schools mostly suspended for the season and little to transact. Judge Orr adjourned the ordinary court to Saturday in the new building.
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Court House
Justice of the Peace Courts
County Board of Education
Orr
Jackson County primary yields mostly re elected officials
Jefferson Ga May 5 in the Jackson County primary election all county officers were re elected except the sheriff who was narrowly defeated by about ten votes. The ex sheriff known as Big Foot Ben Collier tops Ernest Puke while other officers remain in office N B Lord W T Appleby Obie Hawkes Geo Smith J A Woods restate positions.
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Jefferson, Ga
Big Foot Ben
Collier
Ernest Puke
N. B. Lord
W. T. Appleby
Obie Hawkes
Geo. Smith
Corroner
Affidavits Claim Bribe Offered to Poison Conley
In Atlanta on May 5 affidavits were introduced in the Frank murder case. The state presented Anna Maude Carter’s affidavit claiming she was offered a bribe to poison James Conley’s food, supporting Leo M. Frank’s bid for a new trial. Judge Hill ordered private detective Dan C. Sphon held on a $1000 bond for grand jury appearance in Ragsdale affidavit probe.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Leo M. Frank
Frank
Mary Phagan
Anna Maude Carter
James Conley
Hill
Dan C. Sphon
Rev
C. B. Ragsdale
Everything for the Housekeeper Staged in Spring Items Sale
A spring listing showcases housekeeper wares including flower pots jardiniers cemetery items and a range of storage and kitchen goods. Frost King freezers steel frame cream water coolers white enamel lined units and oak refrigerators priced from 10 to 50. Snow white refrigerators 27 to 75. Nursery refrigerators mops sponges and Percolator coffee pots.
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Frost King
Snow White
Marion Harland and Percolator
Fifteenth Bryan Peace Treaty Signed in Washington
Secretary Bryan and Italian ambassador Marquis Cusanni Confalonieri signed a treaty creating an international commission of five to settle disputes unresolved by diplomacy. It is the fifteenth Bryan peace treaty.
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Bryan
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Marquis Cusanni Confalonieri
Ques
United States
Italy
Steel-Clad Battleships Predate Monitor Says Kennan
George Kennan reports to the National Geographic Society that Koreans built steel clad battleships 250 years before the Monitor. He contrasts Korea’s decline with Japan’s rise noting reforms, vaccination drives, roads, banks and crops improved after 1910 annexation, and Japan's influence on Korea’s modernization.
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Washington, D. C
George Kennan
National Geographic Society
Kores
Monitor
Merrimac
Europe
Satsuma
Kennan
Korea
Japan
China
Confucius
Seoul
Ketron Again Figures in Rough and Tumble Fight
In Washington May 5 two famed football players Ketron of Clarkesville Georgia and Foley of New York clashed in a rough, quick fight at the sergeant-at-arms office. Ketron a former Georgia center rusher and Foley a Georgetown halfback proved evenly matched as witnesses observed a heated exchange ending in a clinch and Ketron attempting to seize Foley’s left arm.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Ralph Smith
Harold W. Ketron
Clarkesville
Habersham County
Samuel Foley
New York City
Ketron
University of Georgia
Foley
Georgetown University
Foothall
Acer
Mr Dozier Improving at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Friends report J H Dozier is improving at Johns Hopkins hospital. J J Wilkins also remains in Johns Hopkins hospital, with encouragement he will be able to return home soon.
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J. H. Dozier
Johns Hopkins Hospital
J. J. Wilkins
Man buys wife a revolver then switches to an ax
A Kansas paper reports a man in Kansas gave his wife a revolver for defense but after a bullet was removed from his leg and the cow buried he urged she defend herself with an ax. The second item notes that praising oneself invites mockery while deprecating oneself invites the negative valuation of others.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Death of W. A. Marable at 64 in Athens area
Mr W A Marable died suddenly at his home 383 Hoyt street Tuesday afternoon at age 64. He is survived by his wife four daughters Anna Lois Marable Mrs W S Bullard and Mrs J A Daley three grandchildren and sisters Mrs Mattie Winter and Mrs Holland Conaway. Funeral arrangements await Mrs Daley’s arrival from New York.
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Hoyt Street
W. A. Marable
Marable
W. S. Bullard
Anna Marable
Lois Marable
Athens
J. A. Daley
New York
Mattie Winter
Winterville
Holland Conaway
Atlanta
Daley
Mrs James Mayne Buried At Bishop Georgia
The funeral of Mrs James M Mayne wife of the Oconee County school superintendent and a leader in church and social work was held at Bishop Georgia yesterday in one of the towns largest services. She went to Atlanta last Friday for an operation but did not regain consciousness after anesthesia and died in the sanitarium.
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Bishop
James M. Mayne
Sallie Woodis
Oconee
State Women's Board of Missions of the Christian Church
Atlanta
Dr Benedict En Route to Macon for Sanatorium Stay
Dr. Benedict 8 C Benedict yesterday afternoon was carried to Macon to stay several weeks at the Williams Sanatorium. He rode to the cars in an ambulance and reportedly stood well on the train. Dr. Ravaud Benedict accompanied his father and will join him in Birmingham before returning to Athens later this month. He is president of the state board of health and dean of the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy, a prominent figure in Southern medicine whose illness has caused statewide concern for two months.
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8. C. Benedict
Macon
Williams
Ravaud Benedict
Birmingham
Athens
Benedict
State Board’ of ‘Health
School of Pharmacy
University of Georgia
South
Confederate Veterans Gather for 24th Annual Reunion
Thousands of veterans spouses and friends gathered in Jacksonville Florida on May 6 for the start of the twenty fourth annual United Confederate Veterans reunion. Alabama's division plans to depart for Ohio tomorrow to reclaim a battle flag captured from an Ohio regiment.
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Associated Press
Jacksonville
Fila
United Confederate Veterans
Confederate Association and
Gons of Veterans
Alabama
Ohio
Councilman Pitner Falls Ill at Home on Barber Street
Councilman Pitner has been ill all week at his Barber Street residence and is not expected to recover until the end of the week.
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Barber Street
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