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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1911
Page
3
Quebec and New York report large crowds at Ste Anne de Beaupre and St. Jean Baptiste Church. Crippled and blind worshippers flocked to the shrine seeking miracles during the Saint Anne festival and the closing of the nine day novena.
Stockholders of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing gathered in Pittsburgh on July 26 amid growing dissatisfaction with current management. They seek decisive action and possible reinstatement of George Westinghouse as head, as dividends have been earned yet repeatedly passed while surplus grows.
E L Taylor of 1015 S Lumpkin St Athens Ga endorses Doan's Kidney Pills as an effective remedy for kidney complaints. The ad emphasizes home endorsements over distant testimonials and notes the product sells for 50 cents with FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents.
New York on July 26 reports that Welsh emigrants many with families have gathered in the city to begin a pilgrimage back to Wales. Over three hundred have booked passage on the Cunard liner Caronia sailing Friday for Liverpool. Some returning travelers have not seen Wales in forty years.
John L Arnold reports the South Carolina division of the National Farmers Union begins its annual convention in Columbia with delegates from nearly every county. The meeting, led by President A J A Perritt of Darlington, aims to boost cooperation, warehouse expansion, and mutual interests. business wraps up tomorrow. London hosts the First Universal Races Congress with fifty nations including the United States, four days of sessions on harmonizing Occidental and Oriental relations, excluding political topics. Prominent figures such as Felix Adler W E B Du Bois and Wu Ting Fang prepared speeches for the event.
The Most Rev Edmond F Prendergast was enthroned today as archbishop of Philadelphia in a grand ceremony at the cathedral. Dignitaries and laity filled the cathedral as altar boys seminarians and priests led a ceremonial procession before a pontifical mass to conclude the installation. Bishops Fitzmaurice Shanahan Canevin Hoban and Garvey attended.
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