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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1913
Page
8
A Eatonton party touring Athens with an electric car horn caused a morning uproar as the tone alarmed townspeople near Clarke County. The horn sounded again at 2 AM in a hotel garage before the car owners quieted the device with a blanket and fled, sparking city curious chatter and no penalties.
The Athens Savings Bank offers 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded semiannually on January 1 and July 1. Deposits start at $1.00. The notice also promotes shoe repair guarantees by Martin Bros on Clayton Street and lists various local ads including a storeroom for rent on Broad Street and a request for regular collecting work.
A collection of brief classified items including home for sale on Cloverhurst Avenue with nine rooms two baths and garage details. painting and paperhanging services offered by Chas W Parr with phone contact. rental notice for furnished rooms. farm poultry for sale and seed products. local business promotions for SKAT paste soap and scientific beauty parlors with service offers and contact information.
Washington October 10 President Wilson is said to be on the point of recommending that the government buy up all the independent lines of telegraph and telephone connections and thus go into competition directly with the American Telegraph and Telephone Company.
Yesterday the funeral and interment of Mrs J W Bradley occurred. The Rev S X England of Athens conducted the service at Young Harris Memorial Methodist church as his fifty fourth for the year. Interment was in the Bogart cemetery near where Mrs Bradley lived. she left many sons and daughters, several residing in Athens.
The text fragment references a legal defense using technicalities, mentions Leonharivt Co Buffalo and druggists, and notes a public dislike of such tactics despite frequent acquittals. It reads as a garbled historical snippet with advertising and legal commentary cues.
Mrs Sarah M Chapel of Mt Airy North Carolina reports relief from years of womanly and stomach troubles after six bottles of Cardus a woman’s tonic. The ad urges readers to try Cardus and promises similar results, inviting inquiries to Chattanooga Medicine Co Ladies Advisory Dept for instructions and a 64 page booklet.
A Tabernacle preacher warns Athens readers about lectures promoted by the International Bible Students Association linked to Pastor Russell. He denounces beliefs denying Jesus as God before the incarnation, the resurrection, and eternal hell, labeling the group a dangerous cult and urging Bible believers to avoid them.
A lone young man carried a phonograph along Broad street at midnight, playing Casey as it moved, drawing curious looks from a few lingering passersby. The scene ends with a marvel of timing, reported amid street headlines and a shopper’s note about relief for a child’s croup using Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
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