Southern Mutual Insurance declares 60 percent dividend
The Southern Mutual Insurance Company in Athens, touted as the strongest mutual in the south, declares a 60 percent annual dividend. For the year ending April 30, 1910, premiums totaled $357,061.34, with $214,226.80 to be returned to policyholders. Losses to premiums stood at 27.36 percent, signaling high risk quality and city pride.
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Southern Mutual Insurance Company
Southern Mutual
Athens
Young Charles Sanders Dies at Seventeen Near Southern Mill
Yesterday morning Charles Sanders, aged seventeen, died at his mother's home near the Southern Mill. His father had died recently. The funeral will be held today at noon at Center, where he will be laid beside his father.
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Charles Sanders
Southern Mill
Davison-Nicholson Offers Home Accessories and Rugs
Local retailer advertises a selection of home accessories including curtains nets scrims mats and porch rugs. Prices range from 16 cents to 36 dollars with items like 6x9 Japanese matting rugs at 2.98 and Vador porch shades noted for cooling and durability.
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Crex
Vador
Southern Railway awards major locomotive and rail contracts
Southern Railway announces contracts totaling 7.29 million dollars for locomotives, rolling stock, steel rail and fittings to expand motive power and freight capacity. Baldwin Locomotive Works will supply 38 freight locomotives and 25 passenger locomotives, with 3,620 all steel 50 ton cars and ten combined passenger baggage cars to follow by mid 1910. Major steel rails and fittings purchases include 46 thousand tons of 85 pound rail and 190,000 joints from several suppliers to upgrade lines and double track. Delivery begin mid 1910 with rail cars ready by July.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway Company
Finley
Southern
Wie
Source Tee
Washington
Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company
Birmingham
Maryland Steel Company
Cambria Steel Company
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Philadelphia
Southern Railway
Western Steel Car and Foundry Co
Hedgewised
Johnston
Standard Steel Car Co
Butler
Newcastle
Hicks Locomotive and Car Works
Chicago
Lenoir Car Works
Music Festival Gloses In Athens Triumph
The Athens Musical Association hosted the Pittsburg Festival Orchestra and soloists in matinee and evening concerts to rave reviews. Audiences praised the orchestra and chorus under A I Ruby with encores for Lawson and other soloists. The program featured Overtures from Phedre and William Tell, Dicc, Barcarolle, and the Stabat Mater finale with the Festival Chorus.
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Pittsburg Festival Orchestra
Athens
Madame Jomelli
Madame Cochran
Miss Snelling
Dr. Lawson
Mr. Croxton
A. I. Ruby
Moskowski
Barcarolle
L’comte d’Hoffman
Offenbach
Mme. Cochran
William Tell
Rossini
Stabat Mater
Rossina
Festival Chorus
Special Escorts for Odd Fellows Visit Athens Campus
A university task force of college students has been chosen to guide visiting Odd Fellows during their three day stay. Guides, wearing badges reading I Live Here Ask Me, will help inspect the University of Georgia and the State College of Agriculture buildings and grounds from the Georgian Hotel, the convention headquarters.
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University of Georgia
State College of Agriculture
Athens
Georgian Hotel
Biograph Presents Ramona at The Blue Clayton Street
Lon G. C. Baldwin of Marietta visits the city during the grand lodge convention. Baldwin represents the Pettibone regalia company with a notable Georgian display of uniforms lodge costumes and related products for fraternity members.
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Clayton Street
Ramona
Biograph Company
Lon GC. Baldwin
Marietta
Pettibone Regalia Company
Household Remedies Aid Rural Women in Modern Health
Remedies like Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound remain a trusted safeguard for women in rural districts addressing routine health concerns as they have gained steady popularity over time. The article notes these familiar medicines as standard options that have stood the test of time and continue to be favored.
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Pinkham's
Mount Vernon Lodge Confers Master Mason Degree
Mount Vernon Lodge No. 22 will complete the Third Degree of a Master Mason Thursday at 8 30 p m in the Max Joseph building. Visiting brethren invited. assemble by 8 15 p m for prompt work begun at 8 30 p m. Degree conferred by Past Masters W F Dorsey and H R Palmer.
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Mount Vernon Lodge
Mount Vernon
Max Joseph
W. F. Dorsey
H. R. Palmer
Macon Delegates Rally for 1911 Convention in Macon
Macon delegates, with B. H. Hyman of the Chamber of Commerce, push for the 1911 convention naming Macon as host. The city will spend 2500 dollars for hospitality, with Georgian Hotel banners and silk badges for delegates and Rebekahs. Hyman plans to speak in Rome to promote Macon as a permanent convention site for hardware and other groups.
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Macon
Chamber of Commerce
B. H. Hyman
Georgian
Hyman
Grand Lodge of Elks
Rome
Reta’ Hardware
Malcon
Knights of Columbus
Catholic Knights of America
Eacir
Odd Fellows Program Praised by Athens Georgia City
Col Michael commends the Handsome program brochure for the Odd Fellows grand lodge meetings in Georgia. The piece notes the chain of Triple Links guiding friendship, love, and truth and calls the brochure a credit to the program committee. A runaway teen notice for Robert Lee Thomas is appended, with a request to contact Pearl Thomas in Appalachee Go.
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Independent
Order OF Pvp| Fellows
Georgia
God
Man
Athens
Odd Fellows Grand Lodge
Robert Lee Thomas
Acen
Pearl Thomas
Appalachee
College Baseball Showdown Promises Premier Battery Clash
Noon game features top college pitchers facing off in a bid to develop classy pitching. Starts at 3 00 with 25 cent admission. Crowds expect strong lineups and a competitive afternoon of baseball.
New York Cotton Markets Report Quick Prices
Cotton markets in New York show bids and offers across futures with quotes around 14.96 to 14.98 for nearby, 14.73 to 14.74, and 12.78 to 12.79 for later contracts. Trade notation lists 12.67 to 12.49 and 12.60 to 12.62 with 12.56 to 12.57 nearby.
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Jay
DI ‘An
Jalen
Meil
COR
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