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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1910
Page
7
The Athens Daily Banner lists subscription rates and delivery notes, warns carriers cannot collect payments, and notes several local items. It mentions a May music festival, debates on rail and Pullman rates, and legal cases impacting federal decisions.
Athens greets the sixty first annual session of the Medical Association of Georgia as physicians from across the state arrive. The city offers immunity from work and a hospitable stay, with Athenians pledging warm welcome in word and deed.
The piece reports internal strife in President Taft's cabinet amid stand patters insurgent clashes and Ballinger Pinchot tensions. It suggests Hitchcock may quit and Ballinger’s position could weaken. Two ex-Democrats in the cabinet irritate old line Republicans as party unity frays.
It is stated Senator Aldrich will not seek re election due to health strains on body and mind. The piece notes the Aldrich tariff law and shifts in Massachusetts and Rhode Island voting patterns, suggesting political calculations behind the retirement claim.
A dated list notes events and births across years including Gen Putnam’s ride to Concord, the New York Constitution adoption, births of Sir William E Logan and Napoleon III, Gibbon and Plymouth capture, and the Pacific railway bill in 1882. It references Mortimer Clark’s appointment in Ontario and the assassination of the Prince of Samos among other items.
A large load of frozen mutton from New Zealand reached New York with a duty of one and a half cents a pound. Dealers find freight and duty still yield profit at market prices. Mrs. Russell Sage plans a loan foundation with branches in several cities, unlike her late husband’s loan practices.
Rhode Island Senator Aldrich announces he will not seek re election to the senate leadership. Five cities eye 1915 or so for Panama canal opening fairs in New Orleans San Francisco San Diego Washington and Tampa. Atlanta is excluded for being too far inland and waterless. A pension bill for life saving service members and dependents is pending in Congress but faces objections.
The text marks the 18 May 71st birthday of King Charles I of Roumania born April 20 1839. It recounts his lineage as son of Prince Hohenzollern Sigmaringen and his ascent to the throne in 1866, leadership at Pleven, 1881 accession, marriage to Princess Elizabeth von Neuwied Carmen Sylva, and notes the heir Prince Ferdinand and his marriage to the duke’s daughter.
Otis Johnson shines with the Highlanders while George Browne’s injury sidelines him from Washington. Several trades and signings ripple through the leagues as Philadelphia clubs discuss training camps, Lister moves to Chattanooga, Nourse heads to Sacramento, and O’Connor’s left-handed battery takes shape. Columbus bars Cubs games after riots, Patterson hints at a third Tennessee term.
New York April 18 Audubon workers push a nationwide campaign to protect insect eating birds to guard crops worth billions. The effort targets feather dealers and milliners who kill birds for hats, with New York legislature already advancing an Audubon bill to shield nongame birds.
Athens market price for middling cotton quoted at 147.8 cents per pound as reported in New York Cotton prices data.
A fragmentary clipping notes Foley’s Honey and Tar as a popular cough remedy. It mentions Mysterious Billy Smith refereeing fights in Portland, Ad Wolgast opening a Cadillac saloon, a Jimmy Walsh versus Pat Moore bout in New York, and Digger Stanley vs Monte Attell plans in New York. Also references lone bandits committing robberies.
Ottawa April 19 The Canadian Lumbermen's Association complaint against Canadian Tallwage rates was taken up for a final hearing. The key argument centered on events from a year ago.
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