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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1909
Page
8
A compact listing from a local Athens paper notes services and ads. It includes Lipscomb & Co fire insurance and contact info, barber and plumb services, For Sale items like a Maxwell Runabout and a Yale motor bicycle, a Remington shotgun, rental notice, wanted trades, and vegetables and beverages at Williamson’s. It ends with a humorous reflection from the New York Press about honesty and happiness.
President W. W. Finley of the Southern Railway will speak to University of Georgia students in the chapel at ten this morning. It is the second address in a series and the public is invited to attend.
Spirit Lake Iowa druggist L H Farnham endorses Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for constipation promising agreeable pleasant effects. Price 25 cents samples free. Sold by H R Palmer & Sons Orr Drug Co Warren J Smith & Bro FE C McAvoy L P Canning.
The male chorus of the Young Men's Christian Association will rehearse tonight at 8:30 at the YM Y M C A building. Mr Ruby has returned to city and will lead the session. Reading men who love to sing are invited to join and cooperate with the chorus.
Yesterday in Superior court the major portion of the day was devoted to the trial of O'Farrell Vonderau et al concerning a large land dispute in East Athens. The case will be continued today. Col Smith, colored, was fined fifty dollars for stealing alcohol on the campus. Tom Moody, a repeat offender in mayor's court, received a five dollar fine plus costs.
A passenger notes the fine weather in contrast to the week of rain, remarking on the change in conditions and mentioning the persistent rain earlier in the period. The brief reflects a casual observer tone about the local weather.
The article states deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It attributes deafness to inflammation of the Eustachian tube, often due to catarrh, and promises one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It urges readers to send for a circulating notice.
The Salvation Army dominates shoe polishing in Copenhagen while the Switchmen's Union of North America plans a May convention in Peoria. In San Francisco clerks unionize city grocers. Nebraska debates election of senators. women gain voting rights measures. Canada proposes eight hour day. labor chorus forms in Boston. Nevada mine payrolls total about $184,320 monthly with 1,536 workers.
Attorney N I Brown of Pittsfield VI endorses Dr King’s New Life Pills as a reliable family medicine for chills constipation biliousness and headaches. Advertises 25 cents from W J Smith Bro and H R Palmer Sons.
A traveler arrived at the St Charles registry with luggage, claiming to be English. After staff clarified options, he admitted to preferring the American plan, despite earlier statements of being from London. The incident was recounted by the New Orleans Picayune.
In a Delineator story a Sunday school class returns after illness. A list of ailments is given by several children, then the superintendent asks Charlie what he had. He blushes and answers with a high treble that he had a little brother, delivering a humorous ending.
Baseball scores and battery pairings from several games across cities including Nashville Birmingham New Orleans Memphis and Little Rock. Batteries Kellam Tanneman Castleton Smith and others are listed with umpires Pfenninger O'Brien Fitzsimmong Moran Rudderham Carpenter detailing uneven box scores and game outcomes across multiple venues.
Advertisement notes a 30 cf bottle of Dr Howards Specific for Dyspepsia and Constipation offered at 25 cents. The deal promises a 60 dose supply and a savings for customers seeking relief.
A group of Chicago traveling salesmen staying at Planters Hotel in Kansas City fall for a con by a young man claiming wealthy mining ties and blue tinted glasses. After a night of poker, marked cards with phosphorescent backs reveal the trick during a blackout, and the alleged cheat vanishes with the winnings.
From Harper s Weekly, the maid serving a Pottsville household tendered her resignation. The distraught mistress asks why she must part, lamenting their close treatment, while the servant affirms she has stood it as long as she will.
On Friday April 30 at the Colonial the ten Greet Players stage Merchant of Venice in the afternoon and Hamlet at night in a Shakespearean style. The troupe aims to show plays as Shakespeare wrote and intended them, and has operated this way for twenty seven years with public interest and strong ensemble.
A tale of shareable discoveries and the goodwill it inspires. Letters from cured users praise Chamberlains Cough Remedy and urge others to try it, reflecting a communal urge to help. The remedy is advertised as available at local druggists including H.R. Palmer & Sons and Warren J. Smith & Bro.
Governor Hoke Smith writes to the Railroad Commission urging port rates be considered with inland cotton shipments to ports. He proposes a five cent reduction per hundred pounds. The commission will review the letter and merge it with other port rate questions for a general hearing May 5. The letter is dated April 19, 1909.
An old advertisement promotes Chamberlains It as a cough remedy to ease whooping cough symptoms. It touts safety and ration guidance and credits H R Palmer and Co Warren J Smith McEvoy L P Cann as distributors.
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