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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1921
Page
8
Classified notices advertise savings bank promotions, insurance offers, dental and medical services, printing, taxi, plumbing and painting, rental apartments and houses, farm notices, farming sales, lost items, and camp lodging. Listings include contact details, prices, and brief descriptions across local businesses and households.
Atlanta, May 17 Self Denial Week aims to boost the China Famine Fund with a Southern push. Dr W B Beauchamp chairman urges liberal sacrifice to save millions. life saving stamps are sold at three cents each, five dollars buys a family a month of relief.
Ivy L. Lee, renowned publicity adviser to major firms, is retained by the Georgia Railway and Power Co. He will be represented in Georgia by Charles W. Towne. The Georgian native has advised Pennsylvania Railroad, John D. Rockefeller organizations, and anthracite coal operations.
Iceberg lettuce celery tomatoes sweet potatoes grapes peaches oranges apples featured with red ripe produce. State College of Agriculture pasteurized butter lard vinegar cocoa sliced pineapple honey and coconut sold in 1 and 2 pound units at Piggly Wiggly with prices noted.
National League results show Pittsburg 6 over Philadelphia 4 and Brooklyn 9 to Louis 7 among others. College games list Atlantic-Centre College 3 and Oglethorpe, Unlv. Pennestee shows Dartmouth 2 and Princes un 0. Nashville Vanderbilt 6 and Kentucky 9 with Dolph-Macon mentioned.
Preston Arkwright announces the firm will gain expert guidance from Mr. Lee to advance constructive work for Georgia’s resources and to publicize the development efforts beyond the state. The statement emphasizes collaborative effort and broader awareness of ongoing development initiatives.
In Madrid, May 17, comments on Carpentier's exhibition with Lenaers mock Spaniards for not understanding boxing. Observers say crowds were small, tickets scarce elsewhere, and Spaniards favor open hands and insults over blows, ending with embraces to separate rivals.
A quote frames boxing as a failed closed-fist idea and champions open-hand matches. It predicts crowds gathering to watch such a format as a test of its appeal.
Agents of the department of justice established that two men held in Jacksonville North Carolina for several days are not the Williams sons. They are not Hulahd and LeRoy Williams sons of J B Williams. J B Williams is a Jasper county planter under sentence for killing several negroes on his farm under peonage. The two men were arrested by North Carolina authorities and were once thought to be the Williams boys who fled during the father’s trial. Both Williams boys are indicted in peonage cases.
Decatur Alabama May 17 A department store clerk Wi P Seay arrested Tuesday for the murder of his 19 year old bride attempted to set a fire in his jail cell. He piled bedding and clothing and started a bonfire but a fire extinguisher limited damage. Seay later struck his head against the cell wall and was found unconscious by jail staff and later revived by a physician.
Property owners in the ordinance territory are notified that the cans for sanitary closets are now on hand and ready for distribution by the City Board of Health.
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