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Newspaper

Athens Weekly Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Sep 01, 1899

Page

6

Textile Sale Listings with Various Fabrics and Prices

Catalog notes show 34 inch wide fabrics, including Figured Brilliant teen and Novelty Cotton Dress Goods. Prices per yard range from 25 cents to 65 cents. Several lots include Black Figured Mohair and Beilianteen, with multiple pieces listed for Fall and Winter styles.

Stutresy Smee C Cee Ceee Ee Tesco Rob Roy Sue Cbebeees Miaples Sabe Tate Ted Hee

Closeout fabrics and dress goods sale details

A fragmented ad lists multiple fabric items with varied prices per yard including Duck Outing Flannells eight cents, Light Color Flannellette, Rainbow Plaids, Navy Blue or Black Duckings at fifteen cents, Small Check Ginghams at ten cents, 36-inch Percale closeout, remaining Miners Percales, 45-inch Battiste at twelve cents, and best Turkey Red Prints. The text is partial and garbled with stray characters and incomplete items.

Turkey

Footwear sale offering hand made Calf and Kid shoes

The advertisement lists Crest Custom Calf at $3.00 and Edwin Clapp hand made shoes in Vici Kid or Calf, Tan or Black priced not less than $6.00. Mens Russett Calf shoes are $3.50, ladies Dongola Kid patent tip buttons size 3 to 8 reduced to $1.48 to $3.75.

Edwin Clapp

Shoe polish and shoe styles listed with prices

The notice enumerates Ladies' Kid Skin Common Sense or Patent 98 Tip Shoes with leather finish Vici Kid Button or Lace Shoes 89 Patent Tip or Stock Tip priced per pair. Also Whittimores Gilt Edge Shoe Polish offered at 25 cents per bottle.

Whittimores

Bargain clothing sale offers many men’s suits and pants

Readable items include 24 black clay worsted suits at 7 dollars, 48 clay worsted sacks and round cut suits, 75 all wool cheviot suits, 36 worsted plaid suits up to 18 dollars, 24 mohair and other fabrics, 500 pairs jeans at 1.95, 150 doe skin pants at 0.25, 12 dozen shirts 0.75 to 1.00, 60–5 6.98 suits, 500 children suits at 40 cents on the dollar.

Seaboard Air Line plans Charleston to Chattanooga route

Charter application filed for the Chattanooga Augusta and Charleston Air Line Railway to connect Charleston and Augusta with Athens Georgia and integrate into the Seaboard Air Line system. Surveys, rights of way, and advertising will follow. offices to be established and route publicized in county papers. Ely's Liquid Cream Balm offered by Ely Brothers. Prickly Ash Bitters promoted as a malaria preventative by Palmer & Sons.

Seaboard Air Line Charleston Augusta Athens Chattanooga Columbia News and Courier South Carolina Savannah River Georgia Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad Ely’s Ely Brothers Warren St N. Y H. R. Palmer & Sons

Masons Granted One FarE Rail Fare For Grand Lodge Meet

Macon Georgia August 31 Grand Secretary W A Wolshin of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Georgia wins a one fare round trip by rail for all delegates to the annual grand lodge meeting in Macon next October. The 500 Masons attending would save about $2000 as the rate is the cheapest ever offered compared with the previous one and a third fare.

Macon W. A. Wolshin Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Georgia Grand Lodge Wolchin

Clarke County Ginnery Opens Near Clarke County Compress

Captain J H Rucker announces Clarke County Ginnery is now in operation with modern machinery and prompt service. Ginning in square bales costs fifty cents per bale, packing in Lowry round bales costs the bale covering only, while the firm offers efficient workers and a Palmer avenue approach from OCONEE street.

Clarke County J. H. Rucker R Cxer Georgia Lowry Lowry Company Capt. Rucker Clarke County Gunnery

Death of Abram W. Lehman Former Athens Native

A notice from the Evening Wisconsin reports the death of Abram W. Lehman at his Hustisford home in Dodge County aged nearly 64. Born in Athens Georgia on September 29, 1885, he lived in Milwaukee from 1847 and later resided where he died. He founded Neosho Flour Mills in 1858, served as a long time school commissioner and notary public, and married Eva Van Vechten in 1876. He leaves two sons, four daughters, and a sister. funeral services were held with Rev. J. H. Hicks and F. C. Brayton assisting.

Evening Wisconsin Milwaukee Athens The Wisconsin Abram W. Lehman Hustisford Dodge County Bonn Germany Carroll’ College Waukesha Lehman Neosho Flour Mills Eva van Vechten Kewaskum J. H. Hicks Franksville F. C. Brayton Neosho

Registration closes as lists show near 1000 voters

The registration books for the legislative election closed last night with about one thousand names on the list. District tallies include Athens 710, Georgia Factory 767, Sandy Creek 14, Winterville 65, Bradberrys 43, Kenneys 25, Princeton 49, Paryears 20, totaling 998 with minor district differences.

Athens Georgia Factory Sandy Creek Winterville Kenneys Princeton

War at hand in the Transvaal and mass exodus reported

Cape Town reports an alarming turn as Britain strengthens demands to Kruger amid the Uitlander crisis. Women and children flee, protests grow in the Cape assembly, and Pietermaritzburg sees mass emigration as a peace petition is drafted for Victoria.

Cape Town Great Britain Uitlanders’ Council Alfred Milner Cecil Rhodes Kruger Milner Transvaal

Explosion Blows Up Ohio Tram Injuring Five

A combination car on Cleveland's Wilson Avenue line was blown up at 9 30 p m. Five of six passengers suffered broken legs and internal injuries. The blast lifted the car off the track and wrecked the flooring, while the crew and other passengers escaped unharmed. The report rung out three miles away. Injured include J F Ingraham E D Schultz Mrs E D Schultz Mrs L Schroeder Ella Schroeder with leg and ankle injuries.

Cleveland Wilson Avenue Scoville Quincy J. F. Ingraham E. D. Schultz L. Schroeder Ella

Arrest reason given for Jiminez in Cuba health orders

Washington reports no official word from Cuba on the arrest of Jiminez at Santiago by General Wood. Observers fear the motive was violation of port health rules or acts to shield hostile movements against a government the United States is at peace with, while Cuba remains under American oversight.

Washington Cuba Jiminez Santiago Wood General Wood United States

Varmint scare ends as dog sightings quell panic in Athens

In East Athens, fear over a reported tigerlike intruder subsides after a large St Bernard and two pups are seen nearby. Police dispersed mobs as searches continued, churches reopen, and the community settles from days of superstition and unrest.

Athens St. Bernard

A Fallacy About Cheese Digestibility Refuted

A National Druggist critique argues the proverb about cheese is false. It claims cheese digests nothing, remains largely indigestible, and only causes extra digestive burden. Comfort from small cheese portions comes from stimulated digestive fluids rather than actual digestion.

Skiff's Once-A-Week Talk On The Boulevard Ride

The Skiff column promotes evening rides on the Boulevard in electric cars for a nickel, praises fresh air and local business, and recounts a carriage outing to Gam Springs. It notes Sabbath rest, enjoyment of the ride, and Skiff the Jeweler's continued business serving big customers.

Gam Springs Skiff

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