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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
8
A cluttered ad page lists services and sales: insurance offers from Linecoms and Athens Savings Bank with 4 percent interest, items for sale including a Buick, a roll top desk, appliances, dog gear, and various rentals and job ads. Notices include hotel openings, stenographer hire, adoption offers, house for sale, and many “for sale” or “for rent” lines with contact details and addresses.
John H. Wood formerly with the Majestic Hotel Atlanta takes over the Piedmont June 1st with assurance of first class accommodation to the public. Your patronage solicited.
Saturday menu offerings include veal loaf roast beef cabbage with ham hock Carolina rice stewed corn corn muffins gold cake pineapple filling coffee or milk 60c for luncheon and 66c for dinner in June 1920.
A series of evangelistic meetings is underway at Second Baptist Church in Winder Georgia with Pastor Rev W C Wallace assisted by Rev L M Smith from Ware Shoals South Carolina. Large crowds attend and many have joined the church.
SPECIAL PRICES FOR TODAY offers pork chops and shoulders, white meat and ham options, plus beef steaks and various sausages at Liberty Sausage Co and other delis. Fresh produce includes celery, lettuce, peas, beans, beets, carrots, potatoes, peaches, and citrus from Arnold Abney & Co, Costa's Delicatessen, and Piggly Wiggly. Brand names and prices listed. multiple stores featured.
Avoid Its Dangerous Stage. Catarrh can proceed to lungs and consumption. Local sprays or inhalers don’t cure. a blood-acting remedy goes to the source and removes germs. Get a bottle from your druggist and seek free medical advice from the Medical Director in Atlanta, Ga.
Georgia faces two dire needs, servant and fuel shortages, and advocates say state water power development offers a solution. John W. Grier, executive secretary of the Municipal League of Georgia, notes cities and governing bodies support tapping water power. He warns that within ten years servants may disappear from most American homes, leaving the poor to cope with rising costs and heavy household labor.
In Mexico City June 4 a key incident of the Carranza era shows General Benjamin Hill, Obregon lieutenant, escaping the capital hidden in a milk wagon. He briefly left the wagon to dodge police and then hid again as the pursuit continued. A separate mystery involves Roberto Cejudo whose testimony linked to General Obregon's capital visit amid the upheaval.
In a plea for rapid water power development, John W. Greer argues Georgia must build and control its own hydroelectric capacity to provide cheap electricity for households and farms. He warns fuel costs rise and private power firms won’t supply or sell cheaply, needing 12 to 20 years to meet domestic demand.
In the May 14 dash he rode a be leaguered train and escaped death when Carranza fell at Tlaxcalantongo. Captured near Texcoco, Carranza’s nephew Captain Sanchez tried to reach Vera Cruz. He shot himself after a forced landing as Mexico City evacuated on May 7. Men-Sextonique ad claims restore strength, Cumberland Chemical Co. Nashville ad.
A small audience heard Miss M. Rutherford discuss Jefferson Davis at the Senox-Stovall Chapel. She noted June 3rd as his birth anniversary set aside as a memorial, praising his early life, manhood, and presidency, calling him a man pans peur et sans reproach.
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