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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1913

Page

6

Baseball Chatter and Trade Rumors Across Leagues

Manager Evers ships Sutcliffe to New London. Callahan eyes Benz stronger than last year. Cincinnati loses money from canceled exhibitions due to floods. St Joseph tops Big Ed Walsh in six innings. Athletics rely on Wychoff Durning Bush with veterans Bender Coombs Plank Brown. Foster shines for Red Sox, once with Browns, star of Houston last year. Sehardt returns to American Association with Indianapolis. Giants and Athletics outfields deemed weak. season early. Bert Annis retires from Central league ownership. Connie Mack doubts Washington in pennant race. Boxing notes mix with Lippe promoting Palzer Johnson in Paris next June. Jokes and ads pepper the page.

Evers Cubs Sutcliffe New London Callahar White Sox Benz

Railroads Do Double Tracking Between Ky and Tenn

Special from Cincinnati reports the Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway has added 444 miles of double track between Greenwood Kentucky and Cumberland Falls Kentucky, bringing total double track on the Queen and Crescent Route to 109.01 miles. Second track is under construction Erlanger Kentucky and near Citico Tennessee to Boyce Tennessee with completion expected soon. Ferguson Shops near Somerset Kentucky receive expansions including a forty ton electric crane electric welding gear and a sixty cycle turbine to boost power. Dawdale Tennessee will get a fifty foot 150 ton track scale as part of the upgrade to handle heavier freight and passenger traffic between the south and west.

Cincinnati Ohio Greenwood Cumberland Falls New Orleans Citico Tenn Boyve Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Ferguson Somerest Dawdale Queen and Crescent Southern Railway

Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement from Athens Reader

Thirty thousand voices praise Doan's Kidney Pills for backache kidney and bladder relief. An Athens, Georgia case by Mrs. E R Shy at 770 College Avenue reports severe pain and inability to move eased quickly by the remedy. Sold by FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. 50 cents. Remember the name Doan's.

Dean Athens E. R. Shy College Avenue Dear Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo New York United States Doan

Chattahoochee Water Critique Sparks Atlanta Plan

Atlanta residents debate the city water supply with Alderman Van Dyke proposing a mountain aqueduct to deliver pure water. Critics note the current Chattahoochee supply requires filtration and alum treatment while purity remains the sole claimed virtue.

Atlanta Alderman van Dyke

Cure for a severe cold claim by Mrs H Silks

Mrs H Silks of 29 Dowling Street Sydney Australia touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as curative after a brief use. The ad states the remedy is for sale by all dealers.

Chamberlain

Western teachers rally opens Inland Empire convention

Spokane April 16. A large attendance begins the fifteenth annual Inland Empire Teachers' Association convention. The three day gathering features United States Commissioner of Education Claxton and other educators of wide reputation.

Spokane Wash Inland Empire Teachers’ Asociation United States Commissioner of Education Claxton

Better Medicine for Coughs and Colds Ad

You will look a good while before you find a better medicine for coughs and colds than Chamberlains Cough Remedy. It not only gives relief it cures. Try it when you have a cough or cold you are certain to be pleased with the prompt cure which it will effect. For sale by all dealers.

Winterville Dramatic Club to present The Deacon

Winterville Ga April 16 The Deacon by Winterville Dramatic Club Friday evening at the auditorium proceeds go to library fund or school grounds improvement fund Cast includes G C Pittard C W Pittard T N Gaines Clinton Winter Tarson Brownlow C W Harris P K Graham Thompson Pittard Bonnie Ray Cleo England Emma Sue Colle Mary Lizzie Hale Sue Chandler plus other cast members Scenes span Eastville Hotel Garden Mrs Thornton's Sitting Room Graef's Lodgings a Wood and repeated scenes from Act II

Winterville Winterville Dramatic Club Thompson Pittard Thornton Bonnie Ray Helen Cleo England Amelia Fawcett Emma Sue Colle Danah Addie Noell Nelle Mary Lizzie Hale Daisy Sue Chandler Eastville

Kidney and Bladder Weakness Remedy Ad

An old advertisement touts Stuart's Buchu and Juniper Compound as a kidney and bladder remedy. It claims the medicine cleanses waste from the kidneys, relieves symptoms like frequent urination and back pain, and promises quick, buoyant restoration with redder blood. Price is $1 per bottle, with orders sent by express from Stuart Drug Co. Atlanta.

Stuart Express Stuart Drug Co Atlanta

Notable Conference Opens in Richmond on Rural Advance

Richmond Va April 16 Every organized agency for promoting rural advance in the south attended the sixteenth annual Conference for Education in the South opening today The focus on improving rural life drew a larger representative crowd Governor Mann Mayor Ainslie and W T Dabney delivered welcomes with responses by Gen Julian S Carr and other prominent visitors

Richmond South Conference For Education In the Mann Ainslie W . T. Dabney Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Rates to Gulf Ports Hearing Examines Southern Rates

Chicago April 16 A hearing will be held tomorrow before Examiner Thurrell of the Interstate Commerce Commission on the Alabama Great Southern and other southern roads seeking relief from export rate rules. The case targets long and short haul discrepancies for freight from south of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi to Gulf ports. Export rates to New Orleans Mobile Pensacola and other gulf points are lower than rates to intermediate points, violating law as origin points.

Chicago Ill Thurrell Interstate Commerce Commission Alabama Great Southern Railroad Ohio River Mississippi Gulf Ports New Orleans Mobile Pensacola

Commerce Building Dedication At University Of Illinois

Urbana April 16 Many leaders in finance commerce and manufacturing gathered at the University of Illinois to attend the dedication of the new commerce building. A two day program was prepared with speakers including Harry A Wheeler president of the chambers of commerce of the United States Dr P A Cleveland chairman of the Economic and Efficiency Commission and Charles D Norton vice president of the First National Bank of New York.

Urbana Ill Finance Commerce University of Ilinois Harry A. Wheeler Chambers of Commerce of the United States P. A. Cleveland Economic and Efficiency Commission Charles D. Norton First National Bank of New York

Pains In the Stomach and Kidney Troubles

A health ad claims chronic stomach pains signal liver or kidney issues and warns of dropsy diabetes or Bright's disease. Electric Bitters touted as the best stomach and kidney medicine with a Raleigh testimonial stating quick relief and renewed health after starting the remedy. Sold 50c and 1.00, recommended by local druggists.

Bright H. T. Alston Raleigh N. C W. J. Smith & Bro H. R. Palmer & Sons

Getes Chance to Help Raise the Dough

Atlanta April 16 Clark Howe Dick Gray and Tom Loyless met with other noted Georgia journalists and were prominent in discussion for cabinet posts. So far Clark Howell is appointed to a committee to raise funds for the Democratic National Headquarters during Wilson's term. Howell assigned the southeastern territory of the United States and agreed to accept.

Atlanta Clark Howe Dick Gray Tom Loyless Georgia der Wison Clark Howell Wilson Howell United States U.é

Dr King’s New Discovery Widely Praised for Coughs

Longstanding remedy for coughs and colds, promoted as best for lung trouble. Testimony from H Brown of Muscadine Alabama cites wife’s near fatal cough relief after using the product. Available at 50 cents and one dollar from H R Palmer & Sons.

Dr. King H. Brown Muscadine Ala

Col Gorgas Daughter Weds In Ancon Hill Ceremony

The wedding of Miss Ailee Gor gas, daughter of Col William C. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the Canal Zone, to Mr William Wrightson of Texas was held today in the Episcopal church on Ancon Hill. The ceremony drew wide attendance from civil and military society.

Panama Ailee Gorgay William C. Gorgas Canal Zone William Wrightson Texas Episcopal Church Ancon Hill

Stockades for Begging Funds to Bury Wife

Atlanta authorities sentence Palmer Pease, an alleged con artist, after he collected funds claiming to bury his wife who had been dead and buried for twenty years or more. He pressured Black parishioners, even invading a church ministers meeting on Central Avenue and Hunter Street to narrate a fake funeral tale, with one pastor volunteering to assist exposing the hoax as no corpse could be found.

Atlanta Palmer Pease Pease Central Avenue Hunter Street Sim

Woodmen insurgents meet in Des Moines convention

Des Moines April 16 insurgents of the Modern Woodmen of America held a state convention to name delegates for the general insurgents convention in Springfield next month. The order numbers 90 000 Iowa members and claims a large majority support joining the insurgent movement opposed to head camp rate increases.

Des Moines Lown Woodmen of America Springfield Iowa

Meeting of King's Daughters at Arlington

Darling ton hosts the seventeenth annual convention of the South Carolina division of the International Order of King's Daughters in Arlington with three days of programs and rising attendance promising one of the best conventions in the order's history.

King's Daughters Arlington Darlington S. C South Carolina International Order of King’s Daughters Order

Discharge Hearing Set In Pendley Bankruptcy Case

In re J L Pendley Bankrupt No 337 in Bankruptcy. A petition for discharge has been filed. The court orders a hearing on May 3 1913 at 10 A M in the United States District Court room Atlanta Georgia. Creditors and others in interest advised to appear and show cause why discharge should not be granted.

District Court of the United States District of Georgia J. L. Pendley United States District Court Room Atlanta

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