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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1909
Page
6
A collection of 1909 letters to Santa Claus from Georgia children listing gifts they wish for. Names and locations include Athens, Winterville, Crawford, Stephens, and Santa responses note the pleas for dolls, carriages, pianos, books, candy, fruit, and small toys.
In San Mateo California a special election asked if El Cerrito Highland Park Hayward Park East San Mateo should be annexed to San Mateo. Wealthy residents in El Cerrito and Highland Park opposed annexation, while East San Mateo and Hayward Park favored it, suggesting the aristocratic districts may lose their exclusivity as vote totals come in.
W. J. Atkins, a Banner Springs night watchman, endured damp, drafts, and illness that forced him from work. He found relief using Mr. King's New Discovery, reporting a return to work after one bottle. The medicine treats severe colds, coughs, sore lungs, and related ailments, priced 50 cents to a dollar with a free trial bottle.
In Columbus Indiana on December 20 the trial of Jacob Kirk and David Fox of Smithville Monroe County for whitecapping Thomas Vanest a former blacksmith at South Bethany opens in the Bartholomew circuit court. The case resumes after multiple delays and prior trials. Eight men were arrested and tried. two were convicted. Kirk and Fox now face another trial after nearly two years of postponements.
Jacob Schrall of 432 South St Danville Indiana reports eighteen months of kidney and bladder trouble treated by multiple doctors and medicines. Seven weeks on Foley's Kidney Pills brought steady improvement and he offers to share his results with interested readers.
Columbia S C December 20 observers mark the forty ninth anniversary of South Carolina secession. Activities run under the United Confederate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy with Col R A Thompson of Valhalla named as the last surviving singer of the ordinance of secession. Dr James H Carlisle former president emeritus of Woford College had died recently.
Boston hosts next week the first annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science with Harvard University and MIT acting as joint hosts. Dr. David Starr Jordan of Stanford University presides over the event, touted as one of America’s largest scholarly gatherings.
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