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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

May 18, 1915

Page

3

Cool Summer Styles At Bargain Prices

The catalog style note offers bright summer garments in hot weather colors and fabrics. It lists colored linen dresses from 0.65 to 8.50, muslin and crepe dresses 2.00 to 6.50, white voile dresses 5.00 to 20.00, ratine house dresses 2.25, palm beach suits 7.50 to 15.00, white pique skirts 1.25 to 6.00, golfine and palm beach skirts 5.00 to 6.00, and colored serge ta ffta and chuda cloth skirts from 5.00 up.

Ratine House Palm Beach Via Express

Attractive White Goods Sale in Athens Stores

Ours is the largest white goods stock in Athens with prices lower than elsewhere. Embroidered crepes voiles and organdies from 59c to 1.25 the yard. Sheer organdies 25c to 1.00. Checked dimity 15c per yard. Shaddow lace clo 19c to 25c. Rice cloth 29c to 49c. Nub crepes 25c to 50c. Pretty piques 15c to 35c. Basket weave skirting 39c. Splash voiles 19c to 20c. Plain and fancy crepes 15c to 49c. Linonette 15c, ratine 25c to 59c.

Athens

Silk Gloves That Are Different Niagara Gloves Offer Reinforced Tips

Niagara gloves are distinct with double tip fingers guaranteed to wear as long as the rest of the glove. The reinforced fingertips resist heavy wear, while prices stay as low as 50 cents and up. The ad promises better quality without higher cost.

Niagara

Special 15 Cent Table Clears Coat Suits at Deep Reductions

A sale promotes spring and summer coat suits with deep price cuts, offering all new styles at three prices. Suits, originally $20.00 to $37.50, now priced at $13.75 $18.75 and $23.50 to close out the season.

Money Saving Articles In This Lot Priced Lower

In this lot items priced below elsewhere include Colgate toothpaste large 20c small 10c Ponds extract cold cream 20c peroxide cold cream 20c Pearl buttons 2c Ladies handkerchiefs 1c each Feather dusters 25c Boys base balls 10c Baseball bats 5c and 25c Lead pencils 1c Children’s writing tablets 4c Pound paper blue or white 22c the lb envelopes 8c the pack 25c tooth brushes 10c whisk brooms 25c value 10c Wizard floor polish and furniture polish 75c.

Agricultural Knowledge Gained in Athens Employed in War Activities

Lloyd Worrell of Barbertown South Africa, Georgia College Agriculture graduate, writes Prof. Fain April 2 about using military training in Southwest Africa with Botha's Natal Horse Guards. He notes railroad building, a brief clash with Germans, casualties, and future firing line prospects. Worrell reports his brother's crops promising 4000 bushels of corn and 2000 of sweet potatoes, cotton yield likely good, and sends regards to Georgia seniors.

Athens South Africa Lloyd Worrell Barbertown College of Agriculture Georgia Africa John R. Fain Worrell Botha Natal Fain Old Worreil

Colonial's Offering Today Is One of Exceptional Excellence

Metro picture day at Colonial features Mabel Taliaferro in a film version of The Three of Us set in a Colorado mining camp. The plot follows Rhy MacChesney and her brothers facing loss, love, and a mining dispute as town life fades. Also programmed are A Grim Messenger and A Poor Policy plus a Halloween dinner scene and a dramatic mine rescue, with tickets five and ten cents.

Metro America Mabel Taliaferro Rhy MacChesney Clem Lonnie Maggie Colorado Rhy New York Lewis Beresford Steve Towney Beresford Bix Steve Towney the Colonial The Colonial Today Three of Us

Freak Bet on Georgia Tech Game Ends in Cowshed Bet

Statesboro report details a freak wager on a Athens baseball clash between Georgia and Tech. Inman Donaldson of the Tech band bet his brother George, a Georgia junior, that Tech would win. Georgia won 7 to 4, forcing Inman to mind a herd of Jersey cows all summer while George plots vaudeville plans. George, nicknamed Pete, is a Georgia minstrel performer. A separate note praises Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for whooping cough, with Mrs Archie Tymple of Crooksville, Ohio, endorsing it.

Statesboro Athens Georgia Tech Inman Donaldson George State University Inman Pete South Chamberlain Archie Dell Tymple Crooksville Ohio Ell

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