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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
9
Nearly one thousand delegates from women's clubs and organizations in Illinois gathered at the Auditorium hotel for the first convention of women in America focused on promoting the good roads movement. Miss Jane Addams presided at the opening session, with the event continuing tomorrow.
District Court of the United States Northern District of Georgia orders discharge hearing for Te-Max Jacobs, No. 295, with May 11, 1912 at 10:00 A M in Atlanta. Creditors and interested parties urged to appear and show cause why discharge should not be granted. Piles cure advertisement appears at end.
H R Palmer and Sons advertise RHEUMA as a guaranteed remedy for rheumatism lumbago gout and kidney ailments or money back. They claim it drives rheumatic poison from the system and returns Lenete joints to normal within days. They offer 50 cent bottles with small doses and urge readers to investigate the claim.
A Honolulu news item notes Rear Admiral Southerland moving the Pacific fleet toward Olongapo for dry-docking and annual target practice. Crews are loading four months of provisions, training hard for gun work, with China tensions and drydock capacity shaping plans. The piece also includes a testimonial about Foley Kidney Pills from W A Dodson of Dallas, Ga.
Letters from readers praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female ailments and backache. Mrs J W Stanley of Cheneyville Louisiana reports weight gain and vitality after use, while Mrs M Gary of Chicago shares relief from back pain post pregnancy and Change of Life effects.
The University announces the next Rhodes Scholarship exam for Georgia candidates will be in Athens at the University Academic Building next October. Election in December 1912, residence in autumn 1913 at Oxford, value $1500 yearly. Candidate must be 19 by Oct 1 and under 25, with at least a sophomore year completed.
Spokane hosts educators from Washington Oregon Montana and Idaho for the Inland Empire Teachers association gathering. The four day program opens with receptions and preliminary conferences followed by general sessions featuring speakers such as G Stanley Hall A E Winship C A Duniway A Bryan E J Iddings Arthur H Chamberlain and Grace M Shepard.
Advertisement claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy provides relief and cures coughs and colds. It urges trying it for a cough or cold with promises of prompt effects. Sold by all dealers.
About two hundred farmers from California and other Pacific coast states sailed from San Francisco on the steamship Tahiti for Australia to inspect irrigation lands in Victoria. Led by William Cattanach from the Victoria irrigation commission, they aim to promote trade and settlement on reclaimed lands. Victoria holds about 1,000,000 acres reclaimable with 150,000 acres already irrigated, with climate and soil suited to fruit vegetables and dairying.
Fee Hee forms a stock company to tour suffrage plays. Lee Shubert plans a Pacific coast tour of The Blue Bird. The Friars host a dinner with David Warfield as guest. Henry W. Savage preps The Divorce Fund by A E Thomas. Edna Goodrich enters vaudeville for a large salary. Belasco to stage The Governor's Lady by Alice Bradley. Mrs Langtry to return in The Order of Release. Zelda Sears to appear in The Wardrobe Woman by Edgar Allan Wolf. Lawrence Anderson joins Beerbohm Tree's company. Marguerite May to support Hattie Williams in The Girl From Montmartre. Clifton Crawford slated for a musical by Rennold Wolf and Channing Pollock. George W. Hobart dramatizes 5600 an Hour for Clayton White with Marie Stuart co-star. Broadhurst may dramatize Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass. Shuberts hold option. Tom Lewis to vaudeville in a Jerome Von Tilzer musical. Otto Hauerbach signs with Hammerstein for Milo Emma Trentini scenario. Herbert to compose. Bruno Granichstagten returns to Europe. working on The Vagabond Princess with Mizzi Hajos. A London musical The Sunshine Girl with Raleigh book and Rubens music. Frohman handles American rights.
Real estate agent HE Hinton advertises a highly desirable Prince Avenue residence for sale with attractive terms and price. Investment buyers are urged to act quickly to arrange viewing.
The passage notes widespread exhaustion among all age groups and recommends rest combined with a strength building invig orating tonic to aid nature in regaining energy and fitness.
At the Y M C A monthly social Miss Louise Berili, daughter of Prof. Alfredo Berili of Atlanta, sang several songs. Visiting Miss Lucy Stanton hosted the event and the program ended with There Little Girl Dont Cry. Grand niece of Madame Patti, Berili offered a half hour of song that delighted the group. The Banner reported the suspect’s cases will be presented to the grand jury next Monday.
Athens reader Mrs. J. F. Martin confirms prior claims in 1908 about Doan's Kidney Pills curing kidney trouble. She recounts severe pain and fatigue five years earlier, used the remedy, and after four boxes was completely well with all symptoms gone. Sold by dealers 59 cents, Foster Miller Co. Buffalo NY agents. Remember the name Dean's.
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