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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1913
Page
2
Society items feature Mrs. Alice Adams leading a women’s group, kindergarten toy drives, and a feather ban article. Reception for State Normal School faculty, S A E dance, car expenses humorous verse, and Emmanuel Guild Junior Auxiliary guild meeting announced.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Methodist will meet Monday afternoon at Lovelock Church. Reports of the month's work will be given and news of mission work in Korea will be heard. All society women are expected to be present and invite others.
You may take longer than your neighbor to find out that oculists prescriptions are filled eyes tested for proper glasses and lenses replaced at R BRANDTS just as well as if done in Boston But you are the loser Anyone does not fill prescriptions accurately and when someone makes you believe they have to send your glasses away they do this for their personal gain not your comfort At R BRANDTS you get your glasses in an hour or so avoid many eye headaches and pay my mom and that is emphatically true MR CASE our optometrist is an unusually able man and having spent the summer in Boston at study is abreast of the times It pays to go to
A Madison column lists residents and visitors in Madison and Athens. Notices invite those interested in work at R Brants Jewelry Store Insurance Building to attend. Various locals including Mrs E F LeGrande Mrs J Hodgson and university students are mentioned with recent travel and visits in Athens Madison Danielsville Carlton Winterville and Atlanta. Dr and Mrs Otis Johnson announce the birth of a daughter born October 2 1913.
Mrs A H Davenport and Miss Helen Lacy spend today in Atlanta. Mr Herbert Fleming also in Atlanta. Mrs John N Booth and Miss Rosa Booth expected to return today after visiting Mrs Green in Atlanta. Col J A B Mahaffey of Jefferson, Mrs E C Branson and Miss Edith Branson return from Atlanta. Mrs Frank Holder and Miss Emily McElhannon who visited Will McElhannon on Cobb street return home in Jefferson. Son John T Newton in Atlanta Monday on trustees business at the university rear. Mrs Luther Stovall returns to Bostwick after visiting her mother Mrs Cook. F E Warner spent Thursday in Madison.
Madame Paulini Clairvoyant and Scientific Palmist returns to Athens for a short stay with daily hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. except Sundays at 293 Clayton St. West.
A vintage advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a valued general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims it acts on the liver drives out malaria enriches the blood and builds up the whole system priced at 50 cents.
In Columbia Tennessee Mrs Jessie Sharp testifies that after suffering fatigue dizziness and bedridden days from womanly troubles Cardus the woman’s tonic relieved her pain and restored strength. The Chattanooga Medicine Co advertises Cardus as a remedy for tired nervous and irritable women and offers a 64 page home treatment book with instructions.
Cure alleged for eczema itching with Hobson's Eczema Ointment promising instant relief. The ad claims it penetrates pores and heals eczema rashes ring worm tetter and other eruptions, asserts doctor’s prescription status and nationwide availability by mail from 5% Peiffer Chemical Co. Philadelphia and St. Louis.
Directory roundup of Mt Vernon and Athens fraternal groups with meeting nights locations and officers. Includes Mt Vernon F and A M No 22 Owls Nest No 1466 Keystone Chapter No 1 Royal Arch Masons Athens B P C E No 790 and several I O O F lodges plus Knights of Pythias St Elmo Lodge 40 and other Woodmen groups with meeting times and venues on Clayton Broad Lumpkin Wall and Clayton streets and Max Joseph building.
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