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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Mar 25, 1909

Page

6

Blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby turns ninety in Bridgeport

Bridgeport Conn March 24 Fan ny J Crosby famed blind hymn writer enters her ninetieth year today at a city relative s home. She has been blind since age six and later taught at the Institute for the Blind in New York. Crosby authored about 4000 hymns including Safe in the Arms of Jesus and Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross.

Bridgeport Conn Fanny J. Crosby Miss Crosby Institute For the Blind New York Jesus

Mississippi Mission Society Opens Convention at Crawford Street

Delegates and visitors from many points gathered in Vicksburg to open the Woman's Foreign Mission Society Mississippi Conference. Sessions at Crawford Street Methodist church run through the week with reports and routine business alongside addresses by prominent Vines and returning missionaries.

Weeting Vicksburg Miss Woman's Foreign Mission Society of the Mississippi Crawford Street Methodist Church

Arnica Salve Cures Wounds and Skin Ailments

It saved his leg Jed Swaneon wrote that water cures failed and Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. The salve is praised as infallible for skin eruptions eczema salt rheum boils fever sores burns scalds cuts and piles priced 25 cents at W J Smith and Bro H R Palmer and Sons.

Jed Swaneon W. J. Smith & Bro H. R. Palmer & Sons

Cleveland Kidnap Case Snares Two In Downtown Arrest

In Cleveland two suspects, a man and a woman, were arrested after $9790 in bills were found on them. The woman admitted involvement in the Willie Whitla kidnapping and claimed the plan. Both denied knowing each other and faced arraignment for abduction as police traced the currency slips to Whitla.

Cleveland Ohio Willie Whitts Central Police Shattuck Sharon Whitla Captain Shattuck Frank Wood Detective Wood Pennsylvania Wood Keneavers TroHwine Whitla Willie Whitla

Murder Freely In North Carolina Aboard Cape Fear

A white farmer in North Carolina near Freemans, shot and killed by an assassin, body found by a black woman who went to a local store. Sheriffs chased the suspect to across the Cape Fear River. brothers Cleveland and Stillmore Russ arrested and held for coroner’s inquest. The dead man was to marry Miss Squires tomorrow.

N. C Freemans, Co Cape Fear River Cleveland Russ Stillmore Russ Bigford Miss Squires Russ

Mi o na offers stomach cure for headaches and indigestion

Ad explains Mi o na tablets curing indigestion stomach trouble and headaches. It claims rapid relief and energy boost, with a money back promise if not cured. Endorsed by William Hess of Benton Harbor Michigan.

Palmer & Sons William Hess Benton Har -Mich

Whitly Family Pledge Ties Relationship Amid Recovery Plea

A fragment reports the Whitly family pledging support in a troubled relationship and the expectation of recovery efforts. It mentions a central woman and a quoted threat of “hell” if expectations fail.

Knd Whitly Susog

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