Savings Bank Ad Offers 4 Percent Interest in Athens
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded semiannually on January 1 and July 1. Deposits from $1.00 accepted. Also includes miscellaneous notices for sale items, boarding houses, tomato plants, and a recruitment note from Sheridan's Teachers Agencies. Community notices request subscriptions for the John Gerdiner Memorial Fund and voting clippings from the Atlanta Constitution.
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Athens
Athens Savings Bank
John Gerdiner
Atlanta Constitution
Orr Drug Co
R. C. Orr
T. F. Green
Georgia Clinches Championship Over Tech In Southern Showdown
Georgia defeats Tech to claim an undisputed championship and end the series with a clean sweep possible next day. The game drew 2,500 spectators as pitchers Hitchcock Garlington Eubanks and Henderson delivered hits and defensive plays. Adv promotes Chamberlain's Tablets via a reader testimony from Chelsea Michigan.
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Tech
Georgia
Fire insurance division proposal and local ads
Insurance and real estate notes offer options to split fire insurance with J C Jester. Classifieds advertise dry firewood blocks at $1.25 per large load, fourteenth room rental at $35 a month, and shoe repair with Martin Brothers at 455 Clayton Street. Also notes one way parcel post, Jockey Club Coffee promotion, and street tax due by May 16 increasing from $3.50 to $4.50.
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Martin Brothers
Clayton Atreet
Colored School 11th Anniversary Program Athens Ga 1914
Announcement for the Eleventh Anniversary of the Model and Training School in Athens Georgia May 17 to 22 1914 invites attendance at all exercises. Baccalaureate sermon by Rev John Brown commencement speeches examinations and diploma presentations feature Mary Lou Dean as graduate and Dr W H Harris as annual speaker.
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Model and Industrial
Model and
Athens
Judia C. Jackson Harris
John Brown
Jeruol Academy
Model and Training School
The
Triton
Mary Lou Dean
W. H. Harris
Plantation Melody
Ten Chemists Die in Acid Explosion at Rubber Mill
In Detroit on the fifteenth an acid and chemical explosion wrecked the mixing room of a rubber factory. Almost all inside were chemists and none escaped. Four others were fatally hurt, two seriously. The concrete building was leveled, debris scattered for blocks, and damage extended to nearby structures. Loss estimated at fifty thousand dollars.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Michskey
Wanted: Rutledge Hunter Deliberately Walked From Police Room
Rutledge Hunter is sought by city police after being arrested for violating municipal prohibition laws. He walked into the officers room drank water and walked out calmly, with several officers present, and remains at large.
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Rutledge Hunter
Hunter
Dan Shaw the Atlanta Blind Tiger Returns in Contempt
Dan Shaw, famed Atlanta bootlegger known as the blind tiger king, arrived from Chattanooga and was seized at Five Points after a police court contempt charge. He faces a gambling charge after skipping town last year and remains jailed while a $50 fine for contempt awaits tomorrow’s arraignment.
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Atlanta
Dan Shaw
Agate
Chattanooga
Shaw
H. T. Huggins & Son Broad Street Ad
Local business listing for H. T. Huggins and Son located on Broad Street with contact phone 125. Period advertisement style reflects a small town merchants directory entry.
Everything for the housekeeper catalog highlights
An items list features spring house goods including flower pots jardiniers cemetery bases fern dishes and crystal vases. Home appliances such as Frost King freezers water coolers oak refrigerators and Snow white refrigerators follow. Also nursery refrigerators mops mop wringers white enamel bathtubs and cooking stoves listed with prices.
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Frost King
Snow White
Marion Harland and Percolator
National and local brief items from May fifteenth
Observation on child welfare reported at a national conference. Arm embargo effects discussed as seaports see arms movement. Oklahoma's Thompson abandons rural credits plan. Henry Pulliam’s body arrives in Pulaski with funeral plans. Agricultural appropriations debate delays continue. Russian aviator Zmichkura killed in flight. Wheelock explains federal reserve board decline. Dr Edward Ryan departs New Orleans for Washington. Jean Gianini insane in murder trial opening testimony and father’s collapse.
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Associated Press
Memphis
National Conference For Charities and Corrections
A. J. McKelway
Washington
National Child Labor Committee
Hill and Thompson Plan New Athens Barber Shops
Hill and Thompson announce opening of a second first class barber shop in Athens located next to the Q Room and Anderson Bank. Hill is an experienced head barber, Thompson will partner and run his existing Electric Company job. The shop will be redesigned and furnished elegantly.
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Anderson Bank
Hill and Thompson
Athens
Hill
Thompson
Electric Company
Dr. J. P. Proctor Heads to Europe for Postgrad Study
Dr. J. P. Proctor, president of the Athens Board of Health and associate proprietor of St Marys Hospital, leaves for Germany to take a five month course in specialized postgraduate work.
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J. P. Proctor
Athens
Mr W T Bryan Heads to Europe for Health
Mr W T Bryan former president of the Athens Railway and Electric Company and now president of the Southern Manufacturing Company sails from New York for Europe to consult specialists about persistent health symptoms that have troubled him for months.
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W. T. Bryan
Athens Railway and Electric Company
Southern Manufacturing Company
New York
Europe
Georgia Hit For Neglect Of Birth Registrations
Dr Cessy Wilbur chief statistician at the bureau of the census told the American Association of Societies for Organizing Charities that birth registrations are neglected and laws and enforcement are needed. He noted deaths are recorded more fully and Georgia remains the only state without a general vital statistics law, while South Carolina passed one this year.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cessy
Wilbur
Bureau of the Census
Washington
American Association of Societies For Organizing Charities
Georgia
Union
South Carolina
Georgia Paints Tech Fence With Red and Black in Victory Display
A Georgia delegation painted the fence around Grant Field and Peachtree Street in red and black to celebrate their football and other victories over Tech. An alleged Tech guard watched the scene all night as two statues near Woodberry’s school were colored, with further decorations along Atlanta’s Main thoroughfare.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Tech
Grant Field
Peachtree Street
Woodberry
Peachtree
Pine Streets
Reverend Jack Smith May Move to Indiana Church
The Christian Index notes Georgia preacher A. J. Smith of Athens, a Mercer man with several pastorates, earning a degree at Louisville Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It states he has been called to a church in Indiana but whether he accepted remains unclear.
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Christian Index
Georgia
Louisville
Mell Improving. Athens High Principal to Resume Fall Term
Friends report Prof. E. B. Mell principal of Athens High School is steadily improving after illness. He should be able to return to work at the start of the fall term, though progress is gradual.
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E. B Mell
Athens High School
Foley Kidney Pills Promised Relief for Bladder Distress
An advertisement touts Foley Kidney Pills as a tonic remedy to relieve burning pain and irregular bladder sensations by strengthening the kidneys. It claims quick relief, no harmful drugs, and urges readers to try the product from H. R. Palmer & Son.
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H. R. Palmer & Son
Electric Bitters Aimed at Weak Women in Sickness Relief
Mrs J C Van De Lande of Kirkland Illinois says Electric Bitters kept her from breaking down during three months nursing a relative. The ad promises a month of treatment improving stomach liver and kidneys with relief or money back and small price points 50 cents and 1.00.
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J.C. van de Lande
Kirkland
Ill
Teachers Standing Examination Today At College Avenue
Sept G. G. Bond of the city school system will today at the College Avenue school hold his annual examination of applicants for positions as teachers in the schools here another year. Practically the entire day will be taken up with this teachers' examination.
Messenger role temporarily filled on Gainesville Midland run
Mr. Boyce Riley of Gainesville takes over the regular express messenger duties on the Gainesville Midland line for several days while Mr. Lester rests on a fortnight's leave of absence, the first such break in years.
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Boyce Riley
Gainesville
Mr. Lester
Baseball scores from national leagues and southern leagues
Summarizes scattered scores from multiple leagues including American and National Leagues with results such as Chicago 7 over Buffalo nine by Buffalo and Brooklyn 12 over St Louis 6. other lines show Baltimore 2 and Indianapolis 1 with sparse details from the South Atlantic and Southern Leagues including Augusta 6 Albany 8.
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Buffalo
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Kansas City
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Pittsburg
New York
Cincinnati
Boston
Philadelphia
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America
Milledge
Harris and
Hancock Streets
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Baxter Street
Onelite
R. T. Goodwyn Realty Company
Southern Mutual Building
el Glostovo
Athens Engineering CO
Jersey
Miles Collier
Colbert
Care Banner
M. Care Banner
Warren J. Smith & W Co
Agriculture College
Georgia Rural
Sheridan
Greenwood
D. C
Champs
Jacob Hindelang
Chelsea
Mich
Adv
Insurance & Reali Estate
Lipscomb
J. C. Jester
R. L. Moss Mfg. Co
Moss Mfg Co
Jockey Club
Colored School
Childs Street
G. Anderson & Co
H. T. Huggins & Son
Broad St
el Paso
Constitutionalis
Constitutionalists
Oklahoma
Democratic Caucus
Underwood
Pulaski
Henry Pulliam
Vera Cruz
Court House
Washington, D. C
Sebastopol
Russia
Zmichkura
Harry A. Wheeler
Federal Reserve Board
New Orleans
Edward Ryan
Mexico
Herkimer
N. Y
Jean Gianini
Lydia Beecher
MR. W. T. Bryan
Cessy L. Wilbur
Bureau of Census
Jack Smith
Indiana Church
Lipscomb & Company
Athens Audit CO
J. F. Hart
the McGregor Company
Kool Kitchen Komfort
Hot Paint Co
Athens Railway & Electric Co
Georgia National Bank
JNO
J. Wilkins
W. P. Brooks
Chas. H. Phinizy
J. C. Chandler
Eston Epps
American League
Cleveland
Pereeset
Ees
Pewee
Augusta
Albany
Columbia
Jacksonville
Charleston
Macon
Savannah
Columbus
Southern League
Montgomery
Mobile
Nashville
Birmingham
Chamberlain
Clara Oster
House Springs
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