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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

May 15, 1912

Page

8

Baseball Scores From Yesterday’s Pro League Games

Results show Southern Atlanta 1 Birmingham 2, Memphis 7 Mobile 0, Nashville 1 Montgomery 2, Chattanooga 4 New Orleans 0, Savannah 5 Albany 0, Columbia 1 Jacksonville 2, Macon 8 Columbus 9. National league games include Philadelphia 0 Chicago 2, Brooklyn 0 St. Louis 6. American league highlights Chicago 7 Philadelphia 0, St. Louis 5 Boston 6, Detroit 5 New York 1. International Buffalo 13 Providence 5.

Southern Atlanta Birmingham Memphis Mobile Nashville Montgomery Chattanooga New Orleans Sally Savannah Albany Columbia Jacksonville Macon Columbus National New York-Pittsburg Boston-Cincinnati Philadelphia Chicago Brooklyn St. Louis Boston Detroit New York Cleveland Washington

Demonstration Waffles and Buttercakes Highlight Today’s Events

Demonstration features waffles and buttercakes with Miss Lebby serving Chocolate Candy. Talmage Hardware Co lists sale opportunities including brick yard and clay machinery for Oconee Brick Co. in Athens. Fundraising tribute honors white hero Soap Lockett, the fireman who saved a white baby near the Gainesville Midland railroad.

Miss Lebby Talmage Hardware Co Oconee Brick Co Athens S. C. Upson Soap” Lockett Gainesville Midland Railroad

Woman’s Work for the Nation Theme at Athens WCTU Institute

Athens Georgia women gathered for the W C T U Institute to discuss temperance work centered on women’s influence and youth guidance. Speakers highlighted total abstinence, the need for reading rooms, prize essays, and intercollegiate action while praising missionary efforts and religious duty in public life.

W. C. T. U. Institute Miss Rutherford Athens University of Georgia State Normal School Lucy Coby Institute Wc. T. U Miss Willard Flower Mission Senator Carmack Pew G. G. Singleton Prohibition Club Intercollegiate Prohibition Association Singleton

Classified Advertisements Fragment Highlights Local Needs

A dense string of small ads lists auto for rent, furniture and hardware sales, room rentals, loans for salaried workers, dress goods sales jobs, and various services. Notable names include Bondurant Hardware Co, Weir Vulcanizing Co, Mrs J L Pendley, Rosenberg Bros, and Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notices invite tenants, buyers, and job seekers with brief contact details and prices.

Short Notes Of Interest Among Local Ads And Offers

A collage of classifieds from Athens includes savings bank offers, real estate rentals and sales, home and job notices, beauty training programs, hardware and utensils promotions, and stray animal notices. It lists The Athens Savings Bank 4 percent deposits, rental houses on Cobb Street and Broad Street, sale houses at Lumpkin and Wray, hairdressing courses by Moler College, WEAR EVER utensil promotion, and a stray horse mule reward at Madison Ave.

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