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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1911
Page
2
A collection of social notes, poetry and homemaking tips. Items include a verse on resilience, a guide to inexpensive window garden blooms from Thanksgiving to Easter, and society notices from Athens to Wilmington. Travelings, weddings, and local parish gifts are noted along with several returning guests and household tips.
Miss Gladys Rhodes leaves for Brenau College in Gainesville while Dr. Lynch with family arrives to settle in Athens. Numerous residents, visitors, and travels are noted including Miss Ina Cooper ill at home, Miss Annie T. Eppes visiting Madison, Jackson and Wilkes counties, and Mrs. Haughey family back from Tallulah Falls.
A dealer announces an allotment of 150000 pure silk Hull umbrellas with silver mounted handles selling in September for $5.00 each, down from a real value of $7.50. The ad urges immediate inspection as no more may arrive after this lot sells out, highlighting ladies’ and agents’ umbrellas at the same price.
The pastor, not covetous, worries as July 17 passes without an annual wedding fee from a couple he married in Springfield 15 years ago. An inquiring parishioner vows to locate the delinquent couple, then receives a one word telegram explaining the absence.
Chilms Cafe opens under the Commercial Hotel at College and Broad with a full line of cigars cigarettes and tobacco. They offer soda water and ice cream and also manufacture daily candies for trade. Service described as unexcelled with lady attendants at the counter.
A compact promotional note praises a Universal Percolator with a nod to Bondurant How Co as a source for coffee enthusiasts seeking real good coffee.
Senator Martine of New Jersey, dubbed the farmer senator, recalled in Washington farm life and joked about New Jersey colored workers. He quoted an old uncle praising chickens as accommodating, saying you can eat them before dawn or after they’re dead.
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