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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
4
The Savannah News notes Athens residents praise Georgian achievement and the moneyed backers who funded construction. It predicts continued improvement as white convicts may be used on state roads and a new farm is expected to employ them. It also mentions Taft, Southern Democrats, and local civic groups like the Chamber of Commerce growing their influence.
The Banner extols the Travelers Protective Association convention in Athens praising its members as genial and progress minded. It notes local efforts to welcome the visitors and ensure their comfort and enjoyment during the gathering.
The Hotel Georgian draws large gatherings in Athens with Southern Railway commercial agents and the T P A meeting this week. Officials credit President Billups Phinizy and the Athens Hotel Company for the hotel’s impact and the city’s rising profile in the South.
Public spirited Athenians urged immediate efforts to bring the New York American baseball team to train in the city for six weeks next year. The move would involve about fifty five visitors, spending around three hundred dollars daily, and deliver nationwide publicity while benefiting the University of Georgia team through practice with professionals. It could attract other teams as well.
The article recalls Isham Randolph born March 25 1848 in Clarke County Virginia later a prominent engineer who accompanied President-elect Taft on the Panama Canal inspection tour and rose from axe man to chief engineer of the Chicago sanitary district. It also includes a medicinal ad for Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claiming to cure colds feverishness and teething disorders.
A narrator recalls entering the Valentine Theater in Toledo as Grace George’s advance representative. The box office clerk asks who she is, and the writer explains she is an actress appearing in the theater a week from Monday, only to be told he didn’t know whether Grace George was a woman or a man.
Lieutenant Shackelton of the British navy reports near the pole within eleven miles of the target and identifies the South Pole as lying on a plateau about ten thousand feet high. This latest discovery revises the traditional view of polar topography.
Customer reports Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy met advertised promises. Local dealers listed include H R Palmer Sons Orr Drug Co Wm Smith Bro BC McEvoy L P Canning. Publisher Howe of the Press Highland Wisconsin.
Advertises Cham berlain's Lintment as effective for lame shoulder whether from sprain or rheumatic pain with free application and vigorous rubbing. Lists local sellers H. R. Palmer & Sons Orr Drug Co W. J. Smith & Bro E. C. McEvoy L. P. Canning.
Mrs Lizzie Holland of Noah Kentucky testifies the product cured her change of life headaches nervous prostration and fatigue enabling her to do housework and errands She praises Lydia E Pinkham's remedy as the best for female troubles and notes free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass The ad claims 30 years of cures for inflammation ulceration displacements fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous exhaustion through native roots and berries.
Multiple fraternal lodge meeting notices listed for Keystone Chapter Royal Arch Masons Glenn Lodge Athens Rebekah Lodge O. F. and Carleton Ridges Jackson street lodges with meeting nights and times. Train arrivals and departures for Midland route at Athens show daily and Sunday schedules with specific times.
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