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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1916
Page
8
A collection of small ads and notices from The Banner includes insurance and loan offers, real estate rentals, used car listings, peach land for sale, magazine subscriptions, and lost vehicle alarms. Readers are urged to respond via the advertiser’s provided contact details, with care to protect personal addresses.
The item lists bank savings promotions, heater advertisements, candy and butter prices, animal sale notices, and retail offers from E. D. Sledge and Thorntons. It also notes a university student, Clinton Lott of Douglas Ga, underwent appendicitis surgery with no complications and was reported resting well.
The Great Northern Film Company presents The End of the World at the Colonial on the 16th and 17th. Emma Thomsen stars with an all star cast in a dramatic tale of a colossal comet destroying Earth. A banquet scene precedes a cataclysm of fire, earthquakes, and rising seas depicted with grand realism.
The city board of health reported unusually low typhoid figures with only 32 cases year to date and a very low death rate. Officials called the record remarkable for a city of Athens's size and population around 20,000.
John Parks a colored man who left the country at eighteen and wrote from Afta Loma California asking help to locate his family reports success. His sister Marion Freeman now lives on Stephens Street and their mother Marion Parks resides at 56 Colege Street Atlanta with a sister and brother in the city.
Pietro Diero, renowned pianist accordionista, signed with the Keith Vaudeville Circuit for a fifteen weeks engagement after a dispute with major circuits. He previously performed under his own management and had many dates lined up, including a Vaudette booking in Atlanta as a first in a movie house South. Athens hosted him a week earlier before his Atlanta move.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable alternative to calomel. It claims calomel is dangerous mercury that sickens and weakens, while Liver Tone starts the liver without salivation, suits both children and adults, and promises quick relief from biliousness, constipation, and sluggishness.
Joshem says it is impossible to overcome a bad habit. Hasyan asks why and Joshem explains that removing the first three letters leaves the word it.
Richmond Oct 10 The Southern Railway Company stockholders heard Fairfax Harrison present the twenty second annual report noting revenues for the year totaling 69 097 675 24 surpassing previous highs with October onward showing growth. Expenses stayed controlled with net operating income 21 004 005 09 on capital of 395 722 785 06 equaling 5 31 percent return. The report highlights Southern manufacturing growth and a 16 61 percent rise in cotton consumption in Southern mills to 3 526 787 bales versus 3 026 969 last year. An outline map shows mill distribution along Southern lines with 75 percent of cotton spindles in these mills. The closing review credits closer officer organization and a generally efficient workforce amid wage movement tensions but with no strike occurring.
The text argues that members of the brotherhoods deserve fair pay and decent status as a prosperous, contented, and efficient public service class. It asserts they do not require humanitarian pity and should retain the respect of their officers.
A refined velvet suit pattern offers a stylish fall end winter wardrobe. The design features a plaited front skirt with silk braid trim and an emart jacket with self material belt. Sleeves flare with blue satin lining and collar options include turn down or rolled fronts.
The passage traces early coffee tech and trade from Faraday and dynamos to the Mocha and Java nickname. It notes Mocha as Yemen’s port supplying berries and Java’s later cultivation spreading the trade name widely by the seventeenth century.
A tradesman and his apprentice share a quip about enduring a lengthy telephone call. The craftsman tells the apprentice to answer only when his wife asks if he is still there, prompting the reply to be “Yes, Amelia, dear.”
Mrs Torkins declares reading poetry after meals saves time by skimming pages due to many open spoices. The Washington Star note emphasizes efficiency through literary shortcut.
A survey of the Bolivian wilds used time signals sent wirelessly from a station 120 miles from base to aid operations. Advertise your wants.
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