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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Sep 30, 1915

Page

7

Painting Project Guidance Offers Best Paints and Advice

A painting job should start with selecting the finest paints for the work. The firm invites customers to specify interior or exterior projects and promises to supply top quality paints plus compounds tailored to the purpose. If you want the best, go to them.

Census Bureau Exhibit At Exposition Attracts Attention

Special to the Banner Washington September 29 The Panama Pacific Exposition features a prominent Census Bureau display in the Palace of Liberal Arts. It highlights automatic tabulating machinery and extensive statistical publications on population agriculture manufactures forests mines mortality and finance. William Lane Austin of the Washington office oversees the exhibit with three automatic tabulators printing 150000 cards daily.

Washington Federal Census Bureau San Francisco Daily Journal of Commerce United States Census Bureau Palace of Liberal Arts California United States

Editorial note on poems from readers at Columbus Journal

A Columbus Journal editorial laments the impulse to publish reader poems on the page. It argues that inviting literary pieces may discourage serious editorial content and shift focus away from other matters.

Columbus

Foley Cathartic Tablets Endorsed by E. G. Hudson

E G Hudson a Chamblee Georgia merchant says Foley Cathartic Tablets are the best on earth for a thorough cleansing of the bowels with no inconvenience or bad effects. They relieve indigestion and constipation quickly and leave you feeling light and energetic. H R Palmer and Sons ads.

E. G. Hudson Chamblee Foley H. R. Palmer & Sons

Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Claims Cure

Deafness is caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube and can only be cured by constitutional remedies. The ad promises one hundred dollars for any deafness case due to catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Toledo based company F J Cheney & Co. advertises in 75 cent drugstore sales.

Hall F. J. Cheney & CO Toledo Ohio

Queen of the Street Dance Race Campaign Opens

Voters are urged to select the queen of the street soiree for next Friday night. Courting young men handle the effort as readers sign the coupon with a candidate’s name and mail or bring it to the Banner. The committee is led by Hollis Lanier Henry Brown and Ross Coker.

Messrs Hollis Lanier Henry Brown Ross Coker

A Setback with Ellery and the Countess in Fraud Plot

Ellery agrees to a shady money deal involving a $22,818.09 sum and a $20,000 draft as Peale and Rodney scheme to cover a $2,500 debt. The countess exposes the con, turning on the pair and hinting at cops involvement. Ellery grapples with his father’s funds while the two con artists watch their plan collapse in a tense, money driven scene.

Rodney Ellery Jones Mary Peale Savon Treize Ambrose Ambrose Peale Bowery Ellery Clark Hillery Father Hlery Long Island

Golf finals set as club tournament nears finish

Reports from the country club note the semi finals are complete across four flights. Arthur Griffith defeats Hooper in third flight and Bloodworth beats Jester in fourth flight while Payne faces Morris in the third flight final and Anderson meets Stephens in the second flight. Final rounds scheduled before week’s end.

Arthur Griffith A .W. Reed Hooper E. R. Black Jester Doughty Bloodworth Charles Morris Mr. Bloodworth Payne John Morris Messrs. Anderson and Stephens

Went to the chair in Atlanta prison barber foiling fate

Convict No 44 Tom Daly the prison barber at United States federal prison Atlanta was to be executed this morning but survived as the chair was a barber’s chair instead of lethal apparatus. Daly had escaped thirty foot over the fence two months earlier and, after a brief chase, was recaptured and returned to work as barber. Daly, sent from Atlanta on a five year term for breaking into a post office, faced execution with grim humor.

Atlanta Tom Daly United States Tom Convict 44 Daly

Health and Happiness Depend Upon Your Liver

Health and happiness depend on the liver and its bile flow. The text discusses remedies like Dr. King’s Life Pills and Dr. King’s New Life to improve liver function and relieve sluggish digestion, urging readers to seek a remedy at the root of stomach and bowel issues.

Dr. King

Rail commission actions in Georgia take mixed tolls

The Georgia Railroad Commission issued orders at its latest session. Western Union may close Crawfordville office. Savannah dog carriage on streetcars denied. statewide ban on carrying dogs on cars upheld. Intrastate blueing rates revised to align with interstate rates. Macon sewer pipe rates to rise. class P discrimination relief granted by raising Macon’s rate. Peanut grower Saunders loses rate bid. sewer pipe carload revisions allow mixed shipments. and coal pots encased in sheet metal directed for shipment without crating.

Banner Atlanta State Railroad Commission Western Union Telegraph Company Crawfordville Postal Savannah Ocilla Irwinville Ocilla Southern Quincey Macon Rome Columbus J. G. Saunders Lake Park

Foley Kidney Pills Ad Warns of Summer Ills

The notice touts Foley Kidney Pills as a quick fix for headaches back pain rheumatism biliousness and fatigue blamed on kidneys not doing their work. It claims the pills aid elimination promote sound sleep and improve well being for readers via H. R. Palmer & Sons.

H. R. Palmer & Sons

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