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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1912
Page
8
Short notes include savings bank ad offering 4 percent interest compounding for Athens deposits from $1, plus multiple help wanted notices for barber training and grocery work. Also real estate rental for a 6 room cottage on Grady Avenue and services like piano tuning. second hand heater sale listed with price and contact in Banner.
Miscellany of ads including Lipscomb insurance offer with J C Jester, flowers, typing service, The McGregor Co, a gas store ad, Cotton mill freight rates from Carolina and Georgia, lost item reward for a rocket marked W, Parma Violets for sale, berry vine supplies, wanted unfurnished room, and street theft notice in Athens East near Good Samaritan Hall listing a mule and buggy last night.
A historic fundraising note reports no donations yesterday to the Wilson and Marshall campaign. The national committee estimates one million dollars needed to run the campaign, with only about a quarter of that sum raised so far. Athens is urged to contribute at least five hundred dollars, but only 122 dollars has been raised locally. Democrats are asked to subscribe today to support the campaign.
Ithaca N Y Oct 23 A revolution at Cornell university football camp as Coach Sharpe after watching the varsity defeat 28 to 7 relegated the first team to the second training table and told the scrubs they might consider themselves the varsity. He aims to craft the best scoring combination or risk losing every game this season to know next season’s material.
The Industrial Index reports two Birmingham district rail orders totaling about 109 740 tons worth around 8 million dollars by major southeastern railways. It notes plans to double track for Panama Canal traffic, heavy land purchases in the Southeast, Georgia’s Chicago Land Show readiness, and numerous Atlanta and Georgia construction and industrial developments including apartments offices levees and bridges. It highlights Pensacola and Birmingham area expansions and several new plants and facilities in Georgia Florida Alabama and nearby towns.
A regional retailer announces daily additions to its China, glass and house furnishing line. The store highlights new dinner sets, Savoy and Onyx pieces, sheet iron items, wattle irons, muffin pans, and related culinary and dining goods.
Cotton futures show steady tones across January to December contracts with small shifts in values. Cotton oil trades edge higher from open to close while spot price quotes sit around 5.98 to 6.08 for different months and futures.
A Wil son woman asserts Chamberlain Cough Remedy outperforms all others for croup and coughs. Advertisements recommend Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for children's stomach issues. Enos Lollar, a druggist from Saratoga Indiana, endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after fifteen years of sales.
The Third Term party leader suffered a serious relapse. The Academy of Music is secured for the meeting and tickets will be issued this week. Spreckels will discuss nationwide GOP demand for Gov. Wilson election. Roe argues for La Follette supporters to back Wilson, Wise cites GOP confidence loss. The audience will sing America at the close.
New York oct 23 unless Col Roosevelt suffers a relapse Gov Woodrow Wilson will be chief speaker at an independent Republican mass meeting in Philadelphia on Monday Oct 28. The meeting is under the Wilson National Progressive Republican League with Rudolph Spreckels as president and will be run by the Pennsylvania branch. It marks the first time a Democratic presidential candidate appears as the leading speaker at a strictly Republican rally.
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