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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1905
Page
3
Directory item lists First Methodist Presbyterian Baptist Emmanuel Church and others with pastors and weekly services. Includes Holy Communion times for Emmanuel and Sunday School and sermon schedules for multiple congregations across local streets.
Short notes advertise photographs at Frederick J Ball Studio and Irish potatoes at Abney's. A advertisement lists fresh eggs from Abney and lumber and coal offers from Athens Ice and Coal Co. M. M. Arnold's features celery apples oranges and canned fruit while Abney's promotes fresh bread and biscuits. A help wanted ad seeks salesmen for a premium proposition with no experience needed. Rent notice for Hinton residence on Prince Avenue.
Mrs. Jessie Eldridge Southwick of Emerson College of Oratory will present a benefit reading at the State Normal School auditorium tomorrow night to raise funds for the Normal School building. Admission is fifty cents. The program includes The Angel and the Shepherds, Birds of Passage, The Chambered Nautilus, Marshes of Glynn, The Whippoorwill, a humorous monologue Her Ride, a Henry VII court scene, The Day of Judgment, Phantom Pallas, and more with various readers.
At 11 PM in Huntingdon West Virginia a massive explosion on the towboat Defender caused flames to engulf the boat and attached barges. Of 38 crewmen only nine escaped serious injury. several bodies recovered and six unaccounted for feared drowned in the Ohio River.
Thousands of Japanese participants march through streets cheering the return of Prince Fushima aboard the Mongolia. They visit Governor Carter and consulates, shouting Banzais and expressing pride in Port Arthur as a strategic key to peace. The Jiji comments Port Arthur’s price in lives and asserts the empire must keep the stronghold.
St. Petersburg reports a mood of mourning after the Port Arthur surrender. Memorial services planned at Kazan cathedral will include the emperor in attendance. Public councils adjourned. funds raised for a monument to General Kondratenko. Critics blame military censorship and call for government to hear the people.
Senator Warren announced the omnibus claims bill from the senate claims committee the first under Bowman Tucker act in three years. It provides 1 600 claims totaling 2 500 000 dollars including 26 Georgia claims totaling 28 544 76 dollars.
Chicago on January 4 reports the death of Theodore Thomas famed orchestra leader from pneumonia at his residence in the city. He was seventy years old.
Senator Stone of Missouri introduced a resolution asking the judiciary committee to inquire into assertions by Thomas W. Lawson and Judge Alton B. Parker about campaign contributions. The measure urges investigation of the alleged financial influences on elections.
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