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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1915
Page
3
Athens store promotes a wide lace assortment for summer apparel. Net top laces, filet laces, silk laces, and baby Irish laces priced from 10 cents to several dollars per yard. Various widths from 1 inch to 40 inches, including 36 inch all-over silk shadow laces and transparent embroidery in multiple widths.
Large stock of wash fabrics with thousands of patterns and low prices. New black and white stripe voices by the yard at 25c. Shaddow lace voiles 39c. Figured organodes 25c. Polka dot voiles 29c. Dotted rice cloth 39c. Fancy nub voiles 39c. Colored linens 49c. White ratines 25c to 49c. Splash voiles 19c 29c 39c. Plain voiles 15c to 25c. Carnation cloth 65c and fancy crepes 39c 49c.
Everything in Silks for Summer Ours is the largest and best assorted silk stock in Athens. Prices highlight 40 inch crepe de chines $1.25 yard, 40 inch pee wee cloth $1.65 yard, silk poplins $1.25 yard, chiffon taffetas $1.25 yard, silk marquesette 65c yard, stripe voiles 75c yard, silk shirtings 40c to 59c, black chiffon taffeta $1.50 yard, and black crepe de chines $1.50.
Complete line of ladies and children's parasols in popular colors. Ladies parasols in colored silk priced at 1.75 dollars each. Children's parasols range from 50 cents to 1.00 dollar.
Athens house furnishings offers wide stock and low prices. Nets and scrims 10c to 75c per yard, curtains hung free, best tap or China matting 11.00 per roll laid, Crex rugs in all sizes, linoleums 60c to 1.50 per yard, D.N. Co. vacuum sweeper 6.50 with demonstration by phone.
Personal notes from Winterville and Athens report Mr Cupid Potts in Atlanta for the Duke Brown wedding today. Rosa Pringle Smith returns to Athens after weeks in Atlanta guesting Miss Louise Barili. Smith plans to study music in New York in June.
An advertisement touts Parisian Sage as a tonic to nourish hair roots, stop dandruff, and promote long, soft, and radiant hair. It claims dandruff and thinning hair improve with regular use, and notes the product is sold by H. R. Palmer & Son. Also highlights Foley Kidney Pills as a remedy for aging kidney trouble with a testimonial from a seventy-year-old couple.
The ad touts a collapsible baby sulky priced at 4.95 with features for safety and ease. It highlights guard wheels, a spring seat and back, and a simple pull to open or close. Ball bearing wheels promise smooth riding.
A series of piano and voice recitals by Misses Holmesa Davis Miller Turk and others delighted the audience at the State Normal School. The senior class finished exams while other classes prepare for commencement with elaborate entertainments. tribble hosted Eighth district students and various local visitors called on the campus.
An early advertisement promotes Schiffman Concentrated Expectorant for bronchitis and coughs with a money back guarantee from Warren J. Smith & Bro.'s Drug Store. It also touts Deep Rock Ginger Milk and Dr King’s New Life Pills promising digestion and bowel movement benefits and improved appetite.
Prof Howard Odum of the University of Georgia Education School visited Oxford College Brénart College Gainesville and Bessie Tift College Monroe and Wesleyan College Macon to inspect requirements for teachers licenses. The Southern Mutual Insurance Company annual meeting will be held June 1 1915 at 11 am in Athens Georgia with A E Griffith as secretary.
The Athens District conference meets at Young Harris Memorial church on June 7 at 8 30 p m. The presiding elder requests city Methodists to assist with entertainment for all delegates and asks to contact Rev V P Scoville at 1026 to arrange hosting duties.
Mr Will Peek, a Georgia hardware salesman and horticulture enthusiast, reports his Athens garden has red ripe tomatoes ready yesterday. He expects peaches to ripen on one tree next week and on five more trees through July to October. The Banner received several tomatoes grown outdoors, smooth, fresh flavored and fine, likely Athens first open garden harvest.
The funeral was held for Dr. Ernest DeLaperriere in Hoschton Georgia after a sudden death from an accidental chloral overdose. He was the son of Dr. W P DeLaperriere and a noted, popular young physician who supported Tech games. The fragment also advertises a comedy film at the Elite with Tillie's Punctured Romance.
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