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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1921
Page
8
A mosaic of classified items for Athens residents includes promotional notes from Lipscomb's Specialty and The Athens Savings Bank offering 4 percent interest, plus varied ads for auto, plumbing, painting, taxi service, bottled milk, rental rooms, real estate, employment, and a Cadillac sale. It reflects a bustling early 20th century urban economy with many local businesses and everyday needs.
A collage of grocery offers from Costa's Delicatessen and Piggly Wiggly showcases fresh lettuce tomatoes cucumbers squash and more along with specials from Fleming Oliver Skelton Brothers and Arnold Abney. Also a bankruptcy sale notices Barrett Receiver seeks cash sale of stock fixtures and a seven passenger Oldsmobile from R J Hartley & Sons in Athens and Commerce Georgia with inventories 7737 47 and fixtures 645 75.
Manhattan land once sold for 24 dollars and a drink now commands a 1323 dollar per square foot annual rent for a 31 foot Broadway parcel at Thirty Fourth Street. The triangular site, home to a four story building and a busy cigar shop, will be developed by a candy making firm under a 21 year lease worth 3.5 million dollars in rent and taxes. The owner, Robert B. Smith, bought the strip in 1900 for 387 thousand dollars after immigrating from Russia with five pounds. A competing candy concern offered 10 thousand dollars more per year but the deal closed for the lessee. A Saskatchewan farmer meanwhile reports clay for making firelighters.
Washington D C May. The senate this afternoon formally agreed to a final vote on the emergency tariff bill next Wednesday. Voting on the amendments is scheduled to start at noon on that day.
Gray Canton crepe is used in a smart costume with blue embroidery along the skirt edge and sleeves. A dark blue satin brocade ribbon forms a loosely tied sash. Pictorial Review Dress No 9281 offers sizes 34 to 44 inches with price 35 cents and embroidery No 12453. transfer options in blue or yellow cost 20 cents.
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