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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1911
Page
8
Short notes of interest from Athens area merchants include real estate rental notices, insurance offers, and various sales. Dunnwoody flour promotions accompany grocery items alongside bikes, automobiles, and farm stock requests. The ads reference Clayton Street addresses, local businesses, and a missing blank book reward.
Quick snapshot of local ads and notices including fire insurance from Lipscomb & Co real estate and cheap insurance, Athens Savings Bank 4 percent deposits, painting and piano tuning offers, Bludwine drinks, various shop promos, shoe repair and hardware items, lingerie sale, and job notices for Savannah streetcar positions. Also includes boarding requests, cookware, and household goods sales.
The long-time sports writer Fuzzy Woodruff returns to the Constitution sports section alongside Dick Jemison. The piece recounts his two night stay in Athens during a state wide tour and laments misadventures with other paper columnists. A stray heifer notice closes the column.
When You Need lime for building or sanitary use, call to order. Special low prices on large lots. We also stock Portland Cement wall plaster calcium for tinting walls ready mixed paint for houses barns roofs carriage paint. The best white lead linseed oil turpentine hard oil varnish stains. See us before buying your paint.
Baseball roundup lists results from Birmingham, Chattanooga, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Montgomery. Highlights include Mobile beating Birmingham 9 10, Nashville 8 6, and Philadelphia 8 6 at various venues, plus separate games and umpire assignments. Also notes two 10 round bouts: Sam Langford versus Joe Jeanette at Madison Square Garden.
Fall River Massachusetts reports most print cloth mills reduced operations to half time today with some plants to run three days weekly and others on alternate weeks as part of the adjustment.
Sewanee Tenn Sept 4 The college football season looms as Sewanee loses 80 players this year. Coach Harris Cope captain Johnnie Myers and Chigger Browne return to train on the mountain Sept 14. Auburn Ala Sept 4 Auburn prepares for a strong season with Bonner Major Cogdell and Manning leading a veteran lineup as the strongest team in its history.
The opening offering at the Colonial Theater is The Girl from Retter's a widely discussed comedy. A young Michigan wife seeks escape from monotony while her husband is away and encounters Eastern metropolis nightlife.
Insurance firm Lipscomb & Co marks all policies with a Lightning Clause urging customers to include this important addition. The ad provides a phone contact for real estate and insurance inquiries.
An old advertisement proclaims a hundred dollar reward for an incurable case of catarrh and praises Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. and the National Bank of Commerce of Toledo, claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, and mentions price and availability from druggists.
Large shoe company with national reach seeks a man or woman of average business ability to operate a shoe store in towns of ten thousand plus including Athens. Requires $3,500 to $5,000 capital. Backed by strong advertising campaign. no investment required until prospect of success is shown. Apply Progress Station St Louis Mo Dept A.
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