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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1912
Page
5
Athens Georgia advertisement offers a free Christmas present to every customer on Monday and Tuesday only. A larger gift free for purchases of Chinaware plates dishes and related items, with a cut-out wrapped in the paper. Store touts 16 tables of discounted goods across departments for the two day sale.
The January Woman's Home Companion highlights the militant English suffrage fight and contrasts with the U S where many states grant voting rights. It also reviews Behind The Scenes at the Bargain Sale and features fiction by Freeman Vorse Forman Bradley Dawson and Eastabrook. Additional notices cover Strand Magazine Wide World Magazine and American Magazine contents with stories by Rider Haggard Devant Cavalier Pernhardt and Whitlock.
Elberton Georgia reports skeletons of six Tory captives unearthed by railroad workers near Watachie creek and Broad River. Bones well preserved, all male, three feet underground, no coffin traces. Local DAR chapter owns the site. legends tie them to Nancy Hart famed for Loyalist era actions. Some memory of the house and hanging place noted.
Hatton D. Towson of Emory College has won the Georgia Rhodes Scholarship for three years. The winner, born December 1891 in Kobe Japan, educated at Emory, excels in Greek and athletics, and is praised by the Webb School president as fitting Rhodes’s purpose. The selection came from a quartet of eligible Georgians Brown Kenyon Walton Towson.
The Niagara Falls power is used to bake triscuits in a plant near the falls. Whole wheat biscuits are formed under pressure after shredding, with steel rollers cutting and pressing the dough. The factory is described as a glass-walled, large facility with many windows.
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