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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1911
Page
8
A collage of old classified style notices and ads for real estate, fire insurance, flour, hardware, coal, and services. Mentions Erwin & Company, Dunwoody's Best Flour, Bondurant Hardware Co, Weatherly & Bernard, and J. J. Wilson mayor notices. Includes requests for sales staff and laborers, and various product promos with scattered addresses and phone hints.
Fire Insurance Lipscomb & Co. Rea Estaté Lipscomb & Co. Cheap Insurance It costs as much as the best Get the best Lipscomb & Co. The largest savings bank in Athens The Athens Savings Bank pays 4 percent interest on savings deposits compounded January 1st, July 1st Deposits received from $1.00 up. Get the saving habit. Why Delay Dunwoody's Best Flour has no equal Get Chas W Parr's prices on painting and wall decorating before giving your order. Athens Home Furnishers new and up to date with the best equipped electric machines for making shades and awnings, get our prices, we save you money. 335 Clayton St. Plano Tuning Special reduced rate till Sept. 15. Phone 585 Emil Walter. If Remember the half-price jewelry sales last 2 more days only at Pendley's 335 Clayton street. Myonnaise Mixers egg whips milking bowls cake spoons Bondurant Bludwine plain Bludwine with fresh orange Bludwine Milk Good anyway. Wanted Traveling salesman to handle an up to date line of trunks and bags as a side line Right goods right prices The Petersburg Bag gage Company Petersburg Va It See Athens Home Furnishers line of matings they are the best values ever shown in Athens 335 Clayton Street It Replace worn-out cooking utensils with WEAR-EVER Aluminum A A Johnson Phone 339-L.
Reports of yesterday's baseball games note Atlanta beat Nashville with Batter ies Fleharty and Erkoff against Johns and McMurray. In Montgomery New Orleans defeated by 290 runs with pitchers Roberts Hess and Bail ey Smith Gribbens. Montgomery also fielded Mc Nash Nagle Sparks Gribbens. The Memphis Chattanooga game was rained out and only one Nashville Atlanta game was played due to rain.
Philadelphia a rout over the Highlanders by twelve to five with Batty Bender and Thomas forming the early battery for Philadelphia while Vaughan and Blair opened for Chase's team. Pitcher Quinn finished the game after Hal changed the rotation. Umpires Connally and Sheridan presided as New York managed a late rally.
The Young Men's Christian Association hosts a Friday 3:30 to 5 sociable for the At lons Boys' Department from intermediates to juniors. It marks farewell to longtime boys' secretary Mr Howell Peacock and welcomes a new secretary yet to be named. Peacock is praised for three years of service and influence.
Mt Vernon Lodge No. 22 F and A M meets Thursdays at Masonic Hall Clayton Street Max Joseph building. Keystone Chapter No. 1 Royal Arch Masons meets third Tuesday 8 pm in Max Joseph building. St Elmo Lodge No. 40 Knights of Pythias meets Mondays 8 30 pm Castle Hall Max Joseph building. Athens B P O E No. 790 meets Wednesdays 8 30 pm lodge quarters Broad and Lumpkin. Williams Lodge No. 15 I O G G meets Mondays Odd Fellows Hall over Davison Nicholson Co. Encampment No. 14 meets Fridays Odd Fellows Hall over Davison Nicholson Co. Geo B. Davis Camp 292 W O W meets Wednesdays 8 30 pm Jackson and Clayton. Glenn Lodge No. 78 I O C F meets Tuesdays Odd Fellows Hall Clayton and Jackson. Visiting brethren invited.
Marion Harland Coffee Pots percolator pots enamel and tinware items include Saratoga potato chippers vegetable slicers food choppers meat roasters and more. Rogers Silverware knives forks spoons ladles butter knives and soup ladles offered with savings on silverware. Haviland and Austrian China in open stock and sets white and gold chip in several grades Prices fit all buyers and says you won’t miss seeing us.
A 1911 Athens letter from Troy Beatty commends Linton Spring Water Co. water as pure, clear, sparkling, and delicious. He reports his family has used it since market release and urges others to use the water. The note is signed and dated September 8, 1911, and sent to J. R. Crane & Co. in Athens.
Atlanta Ga September tests open as about a dozen candidates report for the 1911 Tech football squad. Coach Heisman conducts light warmups and a long run while prospects appear modest but hardworking. More candidates expected this week as daily practices begin.
A jumble of truncated ad lines and quips appears, mentioning Foley Kidney Pills and medical slang. Dialog snippets touch on romance, a doctor’s patient, a St. Louis man’s attempted death by action, and pokes at corsets and finances. The tone feels like a fragmented humor page from a bygone era.
New York reports Thomas Tullie a Brooklyn mechanic stabbed his wife seven times over a negligee skirt she wore from him. Neighbors intervened before an eighth strike. Police reveal his remark about using a gun. Petersburg Indiana notes Mrs Grubb, 75, is jailed for assaulting her ill husband with a hot skillet and her son Fred Grubb is held after beating his father for a fallen stove wood incident.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union announces a Jelly Shower social at Mrs. W. L. Pierce on Grady Avenue in Athens. Wednesday Sept 13 from five to seven p.m. The Jelly and flower donations will be given to the Flower Mission to aid the sick, with invites extended to all interested ladies.
The Georgia team roster lists fifteen players reporting for football work under Captain Kid Woodruff and Coaches Cunningham and Anderson. Names include Locust Grove 190 pounds Harrell and Dutch Williams of Athens, Craig Orr of Athens, Bob McWhorter now of Gordon Institute, Bowden, Creekmore, Peacock, Conklin, Slater, Price of Jesup, McLean, Woods, Perry and Woodruff. Woodruff likely cannot play in games but will attend practice. Sanford Field saw warmups as Coach Cunningham tested the squad for needed hardening. The group appears fair to Athens boosters as practice begins.
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