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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1912
Page
8
The Athens Savings Bank advertises 4 percent interest on deposits compounded January 1 and July 1 with deposits from $1. Pursues men to learn barber trade. training in a few weeks with tools and wages. Moler Barber College, Atlanta, Ga.
Insurance and real estate brief items list services and notices. entries include rent offers lost tires piano tuning and local ads. includes references to Jester Banner of fice Grady Avenue and Prince Ave with contact details and small classifieds.
Georgia faces Alabama in Columbus while Georgia Tech plays Florida in Jacksonville. Vanderbilt meets Mississippi in Nashville, Auburn to play Mississippi A&M in Birmingham, with Sewanee facing Tennessee and Citadel clashing with Clemson. Birmingham hosts several key games as fans await Vanderbilt’s form and future tests against Virginia and Harvard.
The pink ballots for the national election and electors trigger a party dispute in the Eighth district. Elbert County Democratic Chairman T. H. Verdell resigns and supports Roosevelt while opposing pink tickets. Congressman Tribble awaits state committee direction on whether tickets must be white, with delivery planned for November fifth if white tickets are mandated.
Four Knox Pennsylvania Boy Scouts ages about fourteen explore the Kiser farm ruins and discover a keg containing 1035 dollars in gold coins from 1754 to later English issues. They store the money in a bank while court determines rightful ownership.
The firm dissolves by mutual consent with J C Nunn and R C Nunn retiring. Remaining partner T B Fleming to receive all accounts and act for debts. J C Nunn and T B Fleming sign. Dated October 21, 1912. Also an unrelated advertisement for Dr King’s New Life Pills and urging skating night.
Our regular line adds new items daily with a complete range of dinner sets to be found and more.
A list of delegates to the Daughters of the Confederacy convention is given with names including Arlington Miss Fanny Askew Blakely Miss Rebe Standifer Decatur Mrs H W Cantrell Mrs J G Addy Mrs E C David Mrs J D Finley LaFayette Mrs Sydney Hunt Jr Norcross Mrs T D McDaniel Mrs Homer V Jones Union Point Mrs Jennie Hart Sibley Mrs Samuel Hale Sibley Maysville Mrs G P Boone Watkinsville Mrs R H Smith West Point Miss Mary Booken. Also advertised are fresh lots of self rising buckwheat pancake flour oatmeal at Williamson’s.
The Godfrey de Bouillon Commandery will hold a regular conclave tonight at 8:30. All Sir Knights are urged to attend as important business will be transacted. notice is issued by the commandery officers.
The sale of Prof. Miller’s paintings at Davison-Nicholson and Cos. closes today with several already sold and more expected. Prof. Miller offers a special price today on any painting you select. Also an advertised list of fresh produce is offered at Williamson’s.
For Sale a five room cottage on Bloomfield Street on an 80 by 300 foot lot with shade and water. The house is being overhauled and priced at 2500 dollars with terms of 1000 cash and 1500 financed over 8 years at 8 percent interest. Also Cobb Lampkins offers 158 Dougherty Street furnished home at low price and 145 Grady Avenue seven room house with large lot and convenient features cheap at 3600 dollars. See this soon.
Atlanta reports from an insurance conference note southern companies now hold a large share of fire and life business in the region. Georgia's new insurance law and the home‑money motto bolster the trend toward keeping funds and activity at home, cited as proof of a strengthened southern market.
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