Gotham Gossips and Skyward Schemes In New York
A vivid Gotham column depicts a graft crack down led by a young reporter and a veteran sleuth amid police reforms. Aviation fever takes hold on Long Island as air sports rise in popularity and shop windows fill with aircraft models. Park plans face opposition from liquor interests while traffic folk mourn reckless speed. East Side crowds snap up cheap theater seats as Broadway critics flock to the cheap seats for the new wave of entertainment.
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New York
Secret Service
Gotham
Police Department
Driscoll
Flynn
Sam
Long Island
Sky Sport
Bowery
Fifth Avenue
Evrry
Mastodon Colored Minstrels Here at Morton's Opera House
One of the largest minstrel companies will perform Wednesday and Thursday at Morton's Opera House with sixty performers. Special seating for white patrons promised and a clean, entertaining show reported. Also a card of thanks from the Bradberry family for support during their mother's illness and death.
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Morton’s Opera House
Mastodon Colored Minstrels
I. V. Bradberry
Glenn Lodge I O O F Meeting Tonight At Eight
The Glenn Lodge I O O F calls a regular meeting this evening at 8 o clock. Members are urged to attend due to special importance and interest attached to the session. All qualified brethren are invited to be present.
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ODD Fellows
Glenn Lodge
Why is ARBITRATOR FLOUR the best
ARBITRATOR FLOUR is milled from only the choicest wheat offering purity and quality. Malaga Grapes describe large bunches and rich fragrance. For inquiries call 1076. Arnold and Abney advertise the product and contact.
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Malaga
Arnold & Abney
College Girls at the Colonial Concert Planned
The College Singing Girls and Walter Eccles, a ten member company, are booked to appear at the Colonial on Friday evening November 4. The group includes eight college graduates with solo talents and a versatile repertoire led by Mr. Eccles and Professor Pearsall. They are described as cultured, refined young women with strong voices.
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Walter Eccles
Pearsall
Coal Hods and Vases Open Stock Sale Prices
Coal hods tongs shovels pokers and coal hods offered from 20 cents. Ware china glassware wooden and silverware ten patterns English earthenware in open stock. Gold band French china also in open stock with very low prices.
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China
Local Advertisers Promote Services on Prince Avenue and Clayton Street
An assortment of Athens vendors advertise pharmacy prescriptions insurance real estate and rental offerings. Prince Avenue Pharmacy emphasizes expert pharmacists while Lipscomb & Co handle fire insurance and real estate. Erwin & Co list rental properties and a four bedroom house on Prince Milledge and a ten room corner home. The ad bundle includes shoe polish promotions from Martin Bros and tin work by Leathers & Ravenson along with a note about a $1500 loan secured by $4600 in real estate.
Georgian Hotel Barber Shop Is In New Hands
Wesers Jones and W W Hilley, formerly with Bryant's, have purchased the Georgian Hotel Barber Shop and now operate that elegant place. Friends note their success and spread news of the change of hands in this long established local business.
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Georgian Hotel
Southern Play by Dixon Promoted at Colonial Nov 10
A Colonial showing of The Sins of the Father is billed as a blunt Southern drama by Thomas Dixon, author of The Leopard's Son and The Clansman. Promoters warn earlier Southern works misrepresent the race issue and praise this play as a vital, uncompromising examination of intermixtures of races with humor and pathos.
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Thomas Dixon
Mr. Dixon
Steward of Harawa to leave for YMCA work in Savannah
Friends here mourn the departure of Mr. Steward once manager of the Harawa cafe on College avenue. He resigns as the business there passes to new owners and will move to Savannah to enter YMCA work as secretary, a job he has contemplated for some time.
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Savannah
Steward
Harawa
College Avenue
Death of Clarence Connerat Revered Savannah Graduate
Columbus dispatch reports the death of Clarence Connerat, a University of Georgia class of 1900 graduate and popular social figure. He died Saturday afternoon at 4:45 in Hendersonville North Carolina after a prolonged illness, with his mother and sister at his side. Beloved nephew of R. P. Spencer of Athens, he was over thirty and his body was sent to Savannah for burial.
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Clarence Connerat
University of the
Athens
Columbus
Clarence
Connerat
Savannah
Hendersonville
N. C
Cennerat
R. P. Spencer
Calloway Bros. & Co. Dissolution and Settlement Notice
The firm of Calloway Bros. & Co. is dissolved by mutual consent with A. T. Drake selling his interest to Calloway Bros. The new firm assumes all liabilities and debts and will continue at the same location. They urge promptly settling any outstanding amounts owed.
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Calloway Bros. & Co
A. T. Drake
Calloway Bros
Local Notables Visit City from Washington
Mr John Russell and Mr William Russell, longtime Ath ens residents now in Washington DC, were in the city on business and leisure. Russell sold his New Timothy plantation for more than its cost five years ago after hard work and improved soils. The note ends with a paint and wallpaper ad for Chas W Parr at 919.
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John Russell
Athens
City
Washington City
Department of Commerce and Labor
Russell
New Timothy
Bus
Farm Lands for Sale in Georgia and South Carolina
Paul A. Motes & Co advertises about 140 farms in South Georgia and southwestern South Carolina. Each runs from twenty to ten thousand acres, priced at five dollars per acre and up. Prompt communication urged. Also a cold remedy notice touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money-back guarantee if no cure.
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Paul A. Motes & CO
South Georgia
South Carolina
Baton Savings Bank
Augusta
E. W. Grove
Southern States Exhibit at Illinois State Fair 1910
Springfield Ill Oct 31 The Illinois state fair closed with a strong Southern Railway exhibit showing agricultural and horticultural products from the Southern territory served by the Mobile and Ohio Georgia Southern and Florida Railways. Representatives spoke to thousands, highlighting resources and relocation opportunities for farmers considering moving to the Southwest.
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Springfield
Ill
Illnois
Southern Territory
Southern Railway
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway
Southern Railway System
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James White
H.C. Srocepers
Columbia Fire Insurance CO
Georgia
Erwin & Company
Gotham Gossip
Great Park
Hudson River
Talmadge Bros. & CO
Sanm
Horlick
Ie College
the Huggins China House
Broad St
Whitehall Road
Clayton ST
Prince Avenue
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Fire Insurance—Lipsacomb & Co
Real Estate—Lipscomb & Co
Clayton Street
W. A. Jester
Hill St
Pulaski Street
Erwin & Co
Martin Bros
Clayston St
Leathers & Ravenson
Columbia
J. C. Jester
Prince and Milledgeaves
S. C. Upson
Jackson St
Boulevard and
Chase Street
Eureka Poultry Food Mfg. Co
East St. Louis
Imo
Lyndon
A. C. Quillian
Bloomfield
Clayton St. Ead
Chas. W. Paar
Barber St
Prince Ave
W. A. Capps
Dr. Lynton
Steed
Boarders
Hancock Avenue
Steod
J. L. Arnold
S.C. Upson
M. G Nicholson
Davison Nicholson
T.” Care Miller Furiture Company
Wm. Holbrook
N. Jackson St
Athens Employment Bureau
Shackelford-Hodgeon
Benj. B. Williams
Oglethorpe County
F. O. Williams
Lawk-Twks
R. Steward
Chas
W. Parr
C. A. Scudder, Jewexex
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