Late Delivery Notices and Broad 1900s News Snippets
Subscribers are urged to report late deliveries and porch omissions to the business office. Special notice: carriers may not collect subscriptions or sell papers. Mentions of Senator Rayner on Zelaya, Christmas poems, Athens Chamber of Commerce, Alabama prohibition, new union station, railroad improvements, U S Navy at Bluefields, Edison’s cement houses, and Birmingham Age-Herald urging county road bonds.
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Carrier Bay
Millionaire George Crocker Leaves One Million for Cancer Research
The California benefactor George Crocker, who died of cancer, bequeaths one million dollars to fund cancer cause research. Columbia University will oversee the project aimed at uncovering cancer causes and potential remedies, signaling a major shift in how such studies are funded and conducted.
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George Crocker
California
Georgia Day Observance Aids Rabun Gap School Fund
The Daughters of the Confederacy urge universal observance of February 12 in Georgia with school and public activities. They seek a ten thousand dollar educational fund for Rabun Gap High School, to be funded by selling Georgia flags on Georgia Day and maintained by earned interest.
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Georgia
Daughters of the Confederacy
Rabun Gap High School
Rabun Gap School
Corn Can Thrive In The South With Better Attention
The South can grow corn as successfully as the West, with greater yields possible through improved practices and breeding. Southern colleges are pushing corn breeding, and contests show high per acre outputs. a Marlboro County farmer hit 152 1/2 bushels, while Western belt yields reach 155 3/4. Southern grain also boasts better quality and health risks from Western corn are noted.
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South
Augusta Herald
Merald
Georgia
West
Albany Herald
Edgefield County
Hastings Hart 58th Birthday Observed
Hastings H. Hart, head of the children's department at the Russell Sage Foundation, born December 4 1851 in Brookfield Ohio. Educated at Oberlin College and Andover Theological Seminary, he served in the U S Indian service, pastored in Worthington Minnesota, and led state charity boards in Minnesota and Illinois before joining the foundation in New York. He contributed to child legislation in multiple states.
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Hastings H. Hart
Russell Sage Foundation
Brookfield
Ohio
Oberlin College
Andover Theological Seminary
United States Indian Service
Worthington
Minn
Minnesota Board of Charities and Corrections
Illnois Children’s Home and Aid Society
This Date in History December 14 1739 to 1892 events
Events span from the 1739 birth of Pierre Samuel Dupont and the 1817 death in Wilmington to 1780 Hamilton Schuyler wedding in Albany and 1799 Washington death at Mount Vernon. Other notes include 1811 Noah Porter birth, 1819 Alabama statehood, 1865 Jenkins Georgia governor, and 1892 Archibald death.
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Pierre Samuel Dupont
Delaware
Paris
France
Wilmington
Del
Alexander @ Hamilton
Eliza ¢Beth Schuyler
Albany, N
Anthony Wayne
Charleston
George Washington
U. S
Mt Vernon
Westmoreland County
Noah Porter
Yale College
Farmington
Georgia
Adam G. Archibald
Nova Scotia
Stuart’s Bacha and Juniper Compound advertizes cures
An old medical ad promotes Stuart’s Bacha and Juniper Compound for liver and kidney troubles and Brights Disease priced at one dollar. It also touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe cough remedy for children without opiates, to ward off croup and bronchitis. The notice mentions Mr Joe Cannon’s insurgent troubles and Zelaya in Nicaragua, plus a coin for early Christmas shopping aiding salespeople.
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Stuart
Brights
Foley
Swine or the Flower Behold the Source of Beauty
A fragmentary verse piece describes a scene where a field of roses appears as a source of beauty. The text mentions a banquet and a whispered line as the speaker observes the scene, noting the roses' purity and sadness in the foliage.
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Pikerein
Australian Leaf and Cream Balm advertisements
An ad offers Mother Gray's Australian Leaf to women for urinary and kidney issues with a free mailing offer from The Mother Gray Co. It also promotes Ely's Cream Balm for nasal catarrh with claims of restored smell and breathing, available from Ely Bros. in New York.
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Mother Gray
Mother Gray Co
le Roy
N. Y
Ely
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Rich Men's Gifts Proclaimed With Wonder by Mrs Rhinevault
Mrs O Rhinevault of Vestal Center praises Electric Bitters as a life changing gift for women. She claims it lifts spirits, builds vigor, and cures nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headaches backaches fainting and dizziness. Available 50c at W J Smith & Bro H R Palmer & Sons.
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O. Rhinevault
Vestal Center
W. J. Smith & Bro
R. Palmer & Sons
Taft to Speak at Carnegie Hall Jubilee Rally
President Taft travels from Washington to New York to address the African Methodist Diamond Jubilee at Carnegie Hall. The event marks 50 years of organized African missionary work and aims to raise 300000 dollars for extending the work, with speakers including Bishop Joseph and Bishop Isaiah B. Scott.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
New York
Carnegie Hall
Africa
Joseph Drst
Isaiah B. Scott
Liberia
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Athens Banner
H. J. Rowe
Athens
Telephone
Rayner
United States
Zelaya
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Hmit
Alabama
Union
Aera
Washington
Commonwealtha
Dr. Parkhurst
Pankhurst
Senate
House of Lords
Commons
Lords
Athens Electric Railway Company
Santa Claus
Bluefields
Nicaragua
Thomas A. Edison
Wizard
Birmingham Age-Herald
Jefferson County
Birmingham
Peries
Liverpool cotTon
Escoee
Chicago Grain Markket
Tite
Banner
Robert E. Lee
Alexander White
D.D
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, Va
Columbia Theological Seminary
Columbia, D. C
the Household Edition
Dee
iMay
Taratas
I. Oats
Joe Cannon
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