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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1907
Page
3
Michael Bros. Co. promotes a wide range of fabrics and garments with new taffetas, silks, panamas, mohair, Sicilians, and novelty fabrics. It highlights prices from 24 inches to 46 inches wide, with silks, crepes, mousselines, linens, voiles, and hats, plus waists and skirts, all offered at multiple price points.
A store advertises a wide range of parasols including white black and colored options. Prices start at $1.00 and vary up to $7.50 for white models and extend to $5.00 for silk and ponjee types.
Georgia Educational Association gathers in Macon for a session led by Chancellor David C. Barrow. The meeting plans include a fifty-man business committee chaired by Samuel M. Inman to align business interests with education, plus a rediscovered 1822 minutes copy highlighting early manual labor and agricultural education debates.
Advertisement claims Botanic Blood Balm cures bone pains itching scabby skin diseases and blood conditions. It alleges relief from ulcers boils and hair loss and promotes pure rich blood. The ad offers free samples and lists Atlanta Georgia as the company location with a price of one dollar per bottle.
New York fashion notes describe seamless brown antelope skin pumps with pointed toes and tan bindings, matching bolero jackets trimmed with lace and beads, vibrant spring colors such as green and vivid flame, and accessories like ivory parasols. The piece highlights bolero changes, dress silhouettes, and the popularity of pongee fabrics and sheer white cotton dresses.
Alumni and friends discuss establishing a chair of oratory and debate at the University of Georgia. The English department is overloaded, with Professors Park and Sanford already stretched. Trustees mostly favor the plan, and the matter may be discussed at commencement. A new department is regarded as certain in the near future.
Trustees report rapid construction of district high schools with foundations laid and brick main buildings rising to ten feet. Dormitories will be built to complete both campuses by September opening. The Monroe and Madison projects emphasize quality workmanship and model school design.
The Georgia Medical Society announced it will meet in Fitzgerald next year and in Athens in 1909. Athens will host visiting physicians with a warm welcome when they arrive for the 1909 gathering in the city.
Paul Jackson leaves for New York to study newspaper and book illustrating under a master. He is noted as a talented illustrator and expected to work in the metropolis. Athens boasts Frank Edge as a leading New York illustrator. DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is advertised as a long trusted remedy for piles sold by Orr Drug Co.
A Georgia experiment station committee will accept fifty acres from Waycross citizens to support a $25,000 federal syrup plant. The site aims to develop cane syrup that does not ferment, under a government inspector’s supervision on the Waycross tract.
A. A. Chisholm of Treadwell New York credits Electric Bitters with reviving his health after severe indigestion and debility. He states he is back to business and improving daily, with guarantees from W. J. Smith & Bro and H. R. Palmer & Bons.
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