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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1909
Page
2
Local notices list events and social happenings with many names and places. Cupid's Mis Cues at the Colonial headlines a sequence of readings and clubs, with recitals and gatherings at Lucy Cobb, Senes-Stovall chapel, and Emmanuel church notes, plus a long roster of visitors and residents from Athens and surrounding towns.
An assortment of ads tout flavoring extracts and a kidney remedy, featuring Dr Mason and Electric Bitters with testimonial from J R Blankenship. The second item notes April 22 hearing in Kansas City on proposed Missouri freight rate cuts, following a state railroad commission order and legal injunction.
Chicago, April 22. Preparations completed at the county jail for the execution tomorrow of David Anderson, condemned for the murder of Policeman Michael Callahan who was killed January 5, 1908 during an attempt to arrest Anderson and a companion.
Providence Rhode Island April 22 The Eastern league begins its season with Buffalo at Jersey City Toronto at Newark Rochester at Baltimore and Montreal playing here The season will close on September 27 with the circuit unchanged from last year.
New Hawkes Cut Glass and Gorham Sterling Silver arrive to upgrade wedding presents. The shop promotes its array of new items, urging customers to view before buying and highlighting its lead in showcasing the latest arrivals.
A correspondent shares light anecdotes about a Southern judge famed for bias against North Carolinians and a keen sense of justice. One tale has Immanuel answering to a charge of stealing bacon, seeking an alibi from a boastful lawyer, with the judge prompting a ham question and a light punchline about hams. The piece ends noting Foley's Honey and Tar as a cough remedy.
A fragment from Fliegende Blaetter recounts a woman crying over abuse by her husband a traveling gypsy fiddler who struck her with a fiddle bow. The dialogue underscores domestic violence and victim blaming in a dated, sensational tone.
A Boston mother asks her crying infant what ails him and receives the surprising reply I have never indulged in introspection. The wit hints at humor in a brief, curiously philosophical exchange captured by the Daily Telegram.
Guzzle wakes his wife and shouts triumph as she peeks from a second story window. She asks if he is sober, he replies yes, and instructs her to say reciprocity in a tense exchange.
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