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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1903
Page
2
Readers are asked to prompt the business office about late or failed newspaper delivery to porches. Notifications are the sole way to identify delivery causes and will be appreciated. Telephone numbers are listed as 75 for the Business Office and Gaéhtorial Rooms with one or two rings respectively.
Five days remain until the Northeast Georgia Fair opens. The Athens Chamber of Commerce aims for a strong show, urges home buying and local commerce, and calls for reinforcements for a new hotel and Peabody Teachers College. Investors eye Athens as a promising real estate market with continued demand.
The Banner calls for immediate city effort to fund and build a handsome modern hotel in Athens. It urges choosing a site via the Chamber of Commerce committee and pledges newspaper support to raise the necessary funds, noting Athens growth and rising demand for hotel facilities.
Local notices show multiple candidates announcing for Athens mayor and alderman positions in the Democratic primaries. Names include Dorsey Rhodes Cooper Weatherford Vonderal Lipscombe Rowe with wards one through four. Also brief ads for kidney remedy and a couple of light quips and jokes from newspaper fillers.
Central of Georgia Railway issues an attractive streamer for special trains between Macon and Athens during the Northeast Georgia Fair in Athens October 8 to 10. Round trip rates and schedules list stops from Machen to Athens with one dollar plus. 25 cents return surcharge and half fare for children ages 5 to 12. Regular trains from Macon Milledgeville Covington Whitehall and intermediates October 3–9 at one fare plus 25 cents, minimum 50 cents, final return October 12.
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