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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1920
Page
8
A dense Athens Banner page lists autos for sale and rent, real estate offerings, livestock, and services. It includes notices for lost items, job requests, shop promotions, and a Georgia land sale with prices and contact details. The items reflect typical 1920s classifieds and community ads.
A Sunday meal listing at Thornton's offers a 75 cent dinner with baked chicken crosscut fried corn rice candied yams and puddings. The card mentions cake fruit salads biscuits rolls tea and milk with various side dishes and desserts.
Sunday table advertises dinner for $1.25 served from 6:30 to 9:00. It lists fruit cocktail fried oysters with Saratoga potatoes or sauteed potatoes and peas, steamed Carolina rice, asparagus salad, orange frappe, pound cake, coffee and mints.
An obituary honors Mrs Adelle Jackson and mourns her death. It notes her quiet modest character and her devotion to family including her mother father three sisters and one brother two bright children Francis a girl of 11 and Afidi Noy a 15 year old boy. The family offers thanks for the comfort of faith and asks prayers for the grieving relatives and orphaned children.
Gwinnett County Fair begins its annual run on Tuesday in Lawrenceville Georgia with attractions, midway rides, exhibitions and planned entertainments. A large midway and showground setup will host performances and displays throughout the fair period.
A printed schedule outlines events for a Confederate veterans reunion. Activities include opening sessions at City Auditorium and Hotel Rice, business meetings by the United Confederate Veterans and Confederate Memorial Association, concerts and a parade, with the main gatherings at the City Auditorium. The timetable lists times from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM across Thursday October 7 and Friday October 8.
Fragmented OCR text discusses John Barber Wier in his thirty-fifth year as Athens business man. It references his church ties and various opinions on character and public influence, contrasting ostentation with humility and benevolence.
Fragmented text references a group called the fraternity of Big-Brothers and mentions sincerity and righteousness. OCR errors obscure names and dates. overall meaning is unclear and many words are garbled. No identifiable events or persons can be confirmed.
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