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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1915
Page
8
Compact column lists want ads and notices including mileage coupons for ads, insurance offers, tailoring promo, rental listings at 290 S Milledge, a trade request for a Pope Twin motorcycle, and a lost twenty dollar bill with a reward. Includes rental prices and small business notices from Athens area.
Classified items include rent notices want ads for a mule and boarders to a college, a garage advert offering savings on vulcanizing, and lost and found notes with rewards. Also small financial promos from Athens Savings Bank and insurance ads appear amid contact information and box numbers.
Wanted twenty five young ladies experienced in operating power machines. The Bell Overall Co. advertises from Winder Georgia offering positions at 9.8-3.
On Milledge Terrace a lot over 200 feet front will be sold as a whole or cut to suit the purchaser. The property offers price and beauty for home builders with many attractions. Real estate is cheaper now than it will be in a year. See me for a bargain.
Will Henry Hill, a barber at Lemaster and Allen's, married Sarah Battiste last night in a small colored community ceremony. The couple, both well regarded, began their life together in the city with family present and warm wishes.
Winterville businessman John T. Pittard said business is brightening and prospects are much better than last fall. He noted cotton prices affect the area and people are selling and paying debts while visiting his son at St Mary's.
Mrs Bridget Sherlock aged 55 chief and wealthiest of the Irish horse traders clan in Georgia died in Rebecca Georgia. She leaves five sons and other relatives in the nomad clan. The clan holds one funeral service a year and will bring the body to Atlanta for burial next April in Nashville beside her husband. The clan maintains burying grounds in Nashville and in Atlanta.
Gov Harris weighs suit against P B Lattimer amid discovery of irregularities in E E Holcombe accounts and large unauthorized pay envelope advances to six porters. Investigators cite mispayments, unpaid bills, and a shift to centralized state auditing and purchasing to tighten future finances.
A regular Women’s Club of Athens gathering covered routine business and plans for a minstrel show on October 1 at the Colonial. Laura Blackshear invited YWCA to take a banquet table next Tuesday night. Other items note visits, arrivals, and local social activity including Col. W. J. Simmons of Atlanta visiting Athens.
Dr J L Pendley returns from Forsyth county Georgia where he found no Negro residents after his daughters visited grandparents Mr and Mrs J A Roach. He notes a white girl murder three years ago inflamed locals against colored people leading to widespread expulsions and a ban on passing through with a colored chauffeur or servant.
Will Lane, a negro, was captured after a lively chase that moved from Clarke into Oconee and back, before an automobile head him off. Lane is charged with breaking entering and stealing shoes and clothing from the house of a Colored tenant on Mr. John Carlton's place.
Will Williams colored faced a preliminary trial in Judge Carlisle Cobb's justice court on an assault and battery warrant. He allegedly disarmed Arthur Johnson after Johnson shot his own wife in a drunken quarrel and beat him with a pistol, a claim said to be justified. Johnson's wife lies in critical condition and will testify when able.
A youthful colored couple married in Athens in a rare ceremony after Rufus Boone promised Lola Durham a marriage and, with her guardian aunt watching, secured a license. The couple rode to the Holman Building in a large car, where a justice of the peace performed the ceremony amid local attention.
The piece frames a global clash between labor and capital as a vivid photo play with George as a central figure, portraying economic struggle in dramatic terms. It presents a realistic, cinematic narrative of power and finance shaping society.
Audiences are urged to see a local feature depicting both sides of a modern battle in East Side Babylon New York. The promo frames poverty and sorrow against a contrasting figure described as the Money King.
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