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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
4
Real Buty by Clifton Studio on College Ave offered by Clifton Studio with printing and mounting to enhance portraits. The piece invites visitors and notes contact via phone 445 2 and mentions successors to Motes. A stray mule report and a lost diamond brooch notice appear alongside local merchant offers and produce prices.
Yesterday afternoon at the fair grounds the ninth and eighth grade teams from Washington Street School played a strong game before a fair crowd. The ninth grade won 12 to 8, with six hits to four for the eighth grade.
The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company faces a tax dispute over exemptions in its charter and amendments. The state claims taxes on property value above 4 150 000 dollars while the road argues exemptions should apply to all property tied to the original charter. The case has reached the U S Supreme Court after a lower court ruling taxed property beyond the capital stock threshold.
The general Baptist convention unites northern and southern groups in St Louis for the 1905 anniversary sessions led by E W Stephens of Columbia Mo. with over 1,000 visitors and more expected as meetings span May 17 to 23 including Home Missionary Union and Woman's Foreign Missionary Society activities.
A partial roster of arrivals includes Deadwater Oglesby Ga W L Ison Atlanta A James Cincinnati Louis Jington Macon J B Pyron New York E J Gibbons Jr Norfolk Moore Atlanta J M Stoter O T M McHay Atlanta J B P Ward Augusta McD Sraser Atlanta W H Eckford Atlanta A H Morgan Atlanta M Rosenbaum Boston W J Pool Atlanta J Wagenakee Polynegra N Y A T Smith N Y J P Howard Atlanta David W Meadow Wainville Ga W H Carrigan Atlanta C W Power Comer Ga.
Tampa man Ralph F Fernandez describes a fearful battle with heart disease and insomnia. He credits Electric Bitters with a rapid turnaround after other doctors and medicines failed, noting a return to health in three days. Sold at local drugstores W. J. Smith & Bro and H. R. Palmer & Sons for 50g.
Crowds fill Athens religious meetings with attendance at Oconee Street Methodist Church reaching fifty large to strain seating capacity. Mr Crawley leads a magnificent series with many converts. Dr C A Young from Chicago preaches at the Christian Church to large audiences, praised for clear forceful exposition.
In New Orleans the BCS baseball score shows New Orleans 230 over Atlanta RHE 230 with Phillips and Stratton and Jackson and Shea credited. Memphis has no game due to an off day. Shreveport defeated RHE 15 to 10 with Fisher and Fritz and Star wat os xen and Millerick. Little Rock beat Birmingham 4 to 6 with Guese and Garvin Clark.
Payton Sisters Company continues nightly at the opera house with A Soldier's Honor and In the Land of the Czar. Dan Holt and Edna Baldwin shine in songs and dances. Friday features Parsifal, with a matinee Saturday and the final show Saturday night offering a barrel of money. Money display shown at C Stern & Co window.
The Woman's Club hosted a reception at McGregor Gallery for an art show featuring etchings lithographs pottery and handmade furniture. Works by Newcomb Tulane Rockwood and Orr workshops are displayed with the gallery open May 18 19 and 20 admission ten cents season tickets available.
A Michigan merchant Geo L Chubb praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the best cough medicine. The ad claims it cures a cough or cold faster than any other treatment and should be kept at home for prompt use. Available from H R Palmer Sons and W J Smith Bro.
The Southern Railway Co announces a six dollar eighty five cent round trip from Athens Georgia to Asheville North Carolina for the Annual Conference Y M C A and Y W C A in Asheville June 9 to 25 1905. Tickets on June 8 9 10 and onward with final return June 28 1905. Best connections depart Athens on mixed train No 262 at 7 00 a m daily except Sunday arriving Asheville at 7 40 p m. For more information call or phone 81.
A Belle Plaine reader describes a friend nearly dying from a hand infection that swelled like blood poisoning. Bucklen's Arnica Salve drew out the poison, healed the wound, and saved his life. Also promoted as best for burns and sores.
Brief notes on the first postmark from London circa 1680 with a two-part circle showing month and day, plus a passage from Theodore H. Beaulieu in the St Paul Dispatch discussing perceived rise of insanity among Indigenous peoples and mixed-blood individuals in Minnesota.
Property listings by Robert Toombs Dubose note vacant lots and prices. Prince avenue lot 75 by 310, Barber street 68 by 200, Pulaski street 85 by about 226, Childs street 75 by 345, Barrow street 100 by 300, Milledge avenue several large lots priced from 2250 to 3000 with down payment and utilities noted.
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