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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1913
Page
8
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded semiannually with January 1 and July 1 dates. Deposits from $1.00 accepted. Also listing milk and butter for sale and job-wanted notices. J. P. Davenport Co. Atlanta, Ga.
Classified notices include fire insurance offers, land loans, concrete carpenters wanted, seven room rentals, plant sales, and a White Springs Florida vacation pitch. Items list services from Jester and Erwin, Smith Construction, Camak, and Lipecomb, plus fresh produce and bread offerings.
Scores from multiple games and weather notes list Memphis 0 Atlanta 11 and Chicago 7 Boston 3 with others including Detroit 8 Philadelphia 7 and New York 6 Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 5 while rain impacts games in Boston Chicago and Boston. Named places Tennessee Alabama Georgia Illinois and Missouri appear with various results and intracity matchups.
The Jefferson Davis Home Association plans a Tag Day on Wednesday May 28 at Chattanooga Reunion to raise funds for a Memorial to Jefferson Davis in Kentucky. Davis farm of about nineteen acres has been purchased with Southern contributions. General Bennett H. Young serves as President, with Mrs A Cunningham Vice President, Captain John H Leathers Treasurer, Anna Atkinson Tag Manager seeking volunteer ladies to help tag at the Patten Hotel lobby. Volunteers should contact the association headquarters for the patrol work during the reunion. Joseph Arnold thanks friends for aid during illness and after his wife’s death.
In Leavenworth James M Goldsberry, 72, arrived to see his father Herman Goldsberry, 103, at the Soldiers' Home. He was arrested after drinking and brought before Judge Stewart Brewster. The elder man quipped about his son’s sanity and said his father would be 104 next August if he lives. Goldsberry was discharged.
Notice advertises cheap diamonds for sale at Georgia Pawn Shop located at 130 Foundry Street with contact via PHONE 117. The listing mentions prompt service from Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation successors to Athens Ice and Coal Co.
A London clockmaker explains mantelpiece clocks go wrong when not level. If the clock is not horizontal, it gains or loses time and people adjust the hands, harming the mechanism. Watches and traveling clocks are made to run in any position, so they are relied on more than ornamental mantelpieces.
An old reliability medicine claims to cure lasting sores and wounds. It relieves pain and heals simultaneously and sells for 25c 50c and 1.00 in local stores.
Tommy Clark reports a record number of star first basemen across major leagues this season. The piece notes sixteen subs in the two leagues with well covered initial stations and cites Melupis Stovall Itinor among American League standouts in Philadelphia St Louis Detroit and Cleveland.
The piece argues about star actors and envy within a troupe, likening rival performers Mantell, Séthern, Marlowe, Viola Allen and others to baseball stars. It muses on how jealousies and manager duties would shape money decisions and the fate of a company.
Maran Harland and Percolator Coffee Pots list bread mixers, bread and cake boxes, waffle makers, water and muffin pans, timbale irons and sets, water coolers, refrigerators, ice boxes, Frost King freezers, O-Cedar mops and polish, cotton mops, mop wringers, brushes, dusters and related cleaning supplies. Phone 125.
Governor Joseph M Brown and Mrs Brown will visit Athens Friday evening and stay several days through Monday. Their daughter Miss Cora Brown is to graduate from Lucy Cobb Institute at Friday commencement, with diplomas awarded and a reception to graduates Monday evening.
Henry M. Flagler, famed capitalist and railroad magnate, dies at his Palm Beach home after a weeks long illness following a fall. Born 1830 in Canandaguia New York he rose from a grocery clerk to fortune building Florida railroads and resorts. His estate was valued around 100 million at death and burial will be in a mausoleum at St Augustine Memorial Church grounds. Flagler’s Folly extended rail lines from Miami to Key West stands as his noted achievement.
A letter from Edward Bok endorses the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company as conservative and reliable. He notes taking a fifty thousand dollar policy without solicitation and praises the company's performance since becoming effective. E I Smith & Company, Athens, Ga, district agents.
Atlanta May 20 Chairman C M Candler of the state railroad commission says railroads in Georgia were hurt more by higher operating costs than by rate cuts. He dismisses claims that commissions reduced earnings, noting stable freight rates and that increased costs largely explain lower profits despite some favorable classifications. Fresh strawberries today at Williamson's.
Atlanta reports a season of beneficial rains easing drought across rural Georgia and cities. Commissioner-elect J D Price says the showers revived germination, lifted crop prospects, and could mean millions in added value for farmers and broader business gains if weather remains fair.
Advertisement touts Electric Bitters as ideal for the tired and nervous to regain energy and appetite. Claims benefit for stomach liver and kidneys with testimonials from Mrs. O Rhinevault of Vestal Center New York. Encourages purchase at 50 cents or one dollar with local recommendations.
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