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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
4
Series of court filings and public notices including administrator filings for F J Prater Mra E P Kenny estate and required show cause dates, land sales in Athens city blocks, guardian ad lobum actions, permanent administrations for A Williams and W M Martin, and a lengthy bank charter amendment for Peoples Bank of Athens with stock increases and corporate powers.
A petition in the Superior Court of Sata County from Fred G. Davis William F. Dick and Grover C. Moon of Clarke County Georgia requests incorporation as Fred G. Davis Incorporated. The plan covers a clothing business with wholesale and retail trading and potential branch offices, aiming to engage in garments, gent’s furnishings, shoes and related assortments.
Petition seeks incorporation as CHERO-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF ATHENS for twenty years with renewal rights. Office in Athens Clarke County Georgia. Capital stock set at 49500 dollars, initial issue over 10 percent paid. Power to increase stock up to 100000 dollars, issue bonds, own real estate, sue and be sued, and operate as a soft drink bottling business under Georgia law. filed January 22 1920 Clarke County Superior Court Georgia.
Associated Press reports that Badric attempted to rescue the transport Powhatan this afternoon but had to release it after Badric’s propellers were disabled. Wireless tonight notes the line to the Powhatan was damaged and the rescue could not proceed.
New York, Jan. 21. Charged with alienating the affections of the late Theodore P. Shoats, Mrs. Amanda C. Thomas, residuary legatee of his estate, today was made the defendant in a million dollar damage suit brought by Shoat's widow.
For sale or exchange. Used Maxwell in good running condition. Address 10868 Lumpkin Street.
Captain Harry de Windt announces a New York expedition to Tiburon Island off the Pacific coast with machine guns and three score Mexican soldiers to confront the so called Island of Death inhabited by Indian cannibals said to number 500 to 3,000. He cites deposits of pitchblende and a four month search to follow, aided by specialists and a convoy of government assigned troops.
General Semenoff, commander in chief of all Russian armies, proclaims he has assumed supreme rulership of Siberia. A representative says the move is temporary while Admiral Kolchak’s whereabouts are unknown, marking a disputed claim in the power vacuum.
A special grand jury investigating Red activities in Cook County returned indictments against William Bross Lloyd and thirty-seven other alleged Communist party members.
United States bound news from France reports that Georges Carpentier is due to land in the U S around the middle of February. Women gain no right to speak or pray in the Church of England as Oxford diocese rules deny equal rights before congregations. The Cough Medicine ad promotes a trusted remedy repeatedly recommended by a user.
National figures led by Colonel William J. Bryan will tour multiple southeast cities January 22 to 26 promoting the Anti Saloon League prohibition campaign and fundraising to enforce laws. Wayne B Wheeler Gov Patterson John G Woolley and Sgt Jimmy McFadden also scheduled to speak with travels extending across Georgia Tennessee Mississippi and nearby states.
Dublin January 21 Assistant Commissioner of Police Redmond was shot and killed at 6 20 pm on Harcourt Street a main thoroughfare He drew his pistol and fired two shots in self defense Several policemen have been killed lately but today there were arrests No great act of vengeance to a child from croup is cited Also a note praising Chamberlains Cough Remedy as accessible and effective.
In Koenigsberg on January 21 Associated Press reports that German smokers are suffering partial blindness from certain brands of locally sold tobacco. Police President Koenigaberg notes numerous recent cases of chronic visual disturbance attributed to the tobacco.
To the Dyspeptic would you not like to feel stomach troubles are over you can eat any kind of food. Consider the aet that Chamberlains Tablets have cured others many who have been restored to health by taking these tablets and can now eat any kind of food they crave.
A report details a porous border between Germany and Poland with no effective barrier, allowing illicit cross border movement. Traders slip through daily to buy and transfer luxury goods, textiles, sugar, and food, with millions of marks flowing due to the gaps and lack of restrictions.
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