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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1916
Page
6
Classified items show items for rent purchase and services from local advertisers. Listings include insurance options loans farm property tenants and personal notices with contact details and dates. Readers are advised to respond via column care addresses and not to seek advertiser identities.
Athens ad notices promote savings deposits at 4 percent with semiannual compounding on January 1 and July 1. Also list sales, rentals, used car offers, furniture for sale, corsets, olive oil, and rooming inquiries with contact details across Athens businesses and residents.
A brief item notes Nice Fat Friers and Fresh Country Eggs associated with the KING HODGSON UO, suggesting a local business or product listing and branding in a historical context. No further details are provided in the readable text.
The Jewish New Year begins Thursday September 28 with eve observances and a second day by many communities. Rosh Hashanah marks reflection and resolutions as Yom Din, with Shofar blowing signaling a call to higher life. Announcement of local services will follow. Georgia visit by Mr. George Batty for the Atlanta Georgian covers University of Georgia opening.
Wednesday program features Keystone Elite-Violet Mesereau in Broken Fetters plus StrandTom Moore and Ethel Clayton in Dollars and the Woman and Secret of the Submarine. Elite Red Feather presents Beatrice Fairfax No 2 with other acts. Thursday showcases Lieut Danny U S A with Strand Enid Markey and His Lying Heart with Ford Sterling. Friday continues with Dust and More. Saturday offers Most Likely Make Believe and Blue Hayakawa shorts plus Liber ty rail drama.
The Butler Herald praises Judge Price Gilbert for appointment to the Georgia Supreme Court. Born in Muscogee, he studied at Vanderbilt and Yale Law, practiced in Columbus, served Muscogee in the legislature, chaired the Chattahoochee circuit as solicitor and judge, with a spotless record and high integrity.
An advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a reliable remedy for coughs colds bronchitis hay fever and asthma. It claims to stop racking coughs heal inflamed membranes loosen phlegm and ease wheezy breathing credited to H R Palmer and Sons.
The piece highlights the psychological value of growing plants for children. It notes how a child’s mind responds to the growing frond and stages of growth, fostering attention, wonder, and a sense of witnessing a miracle as a leaf fully forms.
A vintage offer invites readers to mail the clipping with five cents to Foley & Co in Chicago. The return includes Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets, sent by H. R. Palmer & Bons. The style reflects early 20th century patent medicine promotion.
Former New York mayor and Columbia president Seth Low died at Broadbrook farm Bedford Hills N Y at age 66 after months of illness. He guided civic groups and public reforms including the constitutional convention work and efforts to ease railroad labor disputes. His friends say the illness followed a general breakdown.
For sale is the T. W. Wallace place four miles from Athens on Athens and Lexington Road. It features a six room dwelling, a good tenant house, a barn and outbuildings, wood and pasture, totaling 81 14 acres. Apply to Mrs W T Cooper Tutthiu R.1 Box 10 Athens Ga.
A series of evangelistic services begins October 1 at First Christian Church. Rev. Percy C. Cross of San Antonio Texas will preach, praised for his nationwide evangelistic work.
Dr H C Buchholz Georgia Baptist evangelist will be in Athens early next month for revival services led by Rev J A Bell pastor of West End Baptist church. Great preparations by pastor and congregation indicate a significant event in the community.
The Sarepta Baptist Association begins its 117th annual session at Maysville on the Southern Railway north of Commerce. Rev. John D. Mell D D presides as moderator with W R Coile of Winterville as secretary. Delegations from First Church Tabernacle West End and East Athens report strong growth in benevolences membership and church activity.
Spotlight on whether the progressive wing can swing its votes to Whitman for governor. One progressive faction backs Judge Samuel Seabury, running on the Democratic ticket unopposed in the primary.
Special to the Banker. Hartwell Ga September 18 Hartwell gave Hugh M Dorsey 525 majority over Governor Harris in the latest Hart county returns though Dorsey did not campaign there He attended school in Hartwell thirty two years ago near Prof Parker and lived next door to Hon Julian B McCurry The two men remain close friends and Dorsey has visited Hartwell on two occasions since his schooling.
The Barrow County Singing Convention meets at Bethlehem Methodist Church five miles south of Winder on the Gainesville Midland Railroad the second Sunday and the preceding Saturday in October the 7th and 8th. Clarke County receives a special invitation. L. R. Sheridan, Secretary.
A fragment references a life parody attributed to Bob and notes Hart county contributing largely to officials nominated Tuesday. It lists Dorsey followed by J. J. Brown as commissioner of agriculture, W. L Hodges as judge of the Northern circuit, Steve Skelton as solicitor Northern circuit, W. O. Dean as solicitor Western circuit, and Geo. T. McGill as solicitor Greenwood, S. C. circuit.
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