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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1910
Page
3
The Pettibone Bros. Mig. Co. of Cincinnati presents regalia and costumes in the main sample room on the ground floor of the Georgian Hotel. Mr. Baldwin, Southern representative, has long been with the firm and attends Grand Lodge meetings. Free admissions.
The fourteenth annual Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association convened in Little Rock for a three day session. Delegates from Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas attend. President A B Allen spoke, with lectures on the boll weevil and field crops by W D Hunter and Martin Nelson.
Advertisement extolling Cham Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as safe for children without narcotics. Claims it is a quick cure for coughs and colds and unsurpassed by all dealers, urging confident use for young patients.
The Wholesale Grocers' Associate opened its fourth annual convention with Douglas H. Bernard of Peru Illinois presiding. Mayor Healy welcomed visitors as William Judson of Grand Rapids Michigan spoke, with the day devoted to officer and committee reports and discussions on credits tariffs bankruptcy laws tariff and pure food laws and wholesale-retailer relations slated for later sessions.
John D. Rockefeller would go broke if he spent all income to beat Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for diarrhoea dysentery or bowel complaints. It is simply impossible, and so says everyone that has used it. Sold by all dealers.
St Louis May 24 Thousands of delegates from the United States Canada and Mexico attend the twenty fifth annual National Electric Light association convention opening today at the Coliseum hall Edison Day celebrates Thomas A Edison whose innovations spurred major progress in electric lighting since 1880. The exhibit traces practical lamps central stations railways and telephone advances through modern power transmission and X rays.
In Asheville a federal court found W. W. Anderson guilty for driving cattle from Fannin County Georgia through quarantined Polk Tennessee into Cherokee County North Carolina. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs for violating disease control laws.
Several hundred delegates and visitors from many sections of the country have reached Charlotte for the eighteenth annual meeting of the United States Building and Loan League. President Jay W. Sutton of Sault Ste. Marie will call the gathering to order as Governor Kitchin Mayor Hawkins and President Wittkowsky welcome the attendees. The seminar opens with the annual report of Secretary H. F. Cellarius of Cincinnati as the chief feature of the initial session.
A large crowd witnessed the dedication of a monumental memorial on University Avenue to Canadians who died in the South African war. Earl Grey officiated with General Sir John French in attendance as Toronto garrison troops and veterans gathered for the ceremony, the monument costing nearly $40,000 raised by subscription.
An old advertisement touts King’s New Life Pills as a cure to expel poisons from the system and restore health. It claims benefits for the liver stomach and kidneys and promises hope and vigor to the weak and nervous. The product is associated with W. J. Smith & Bro. and H. R. Palmer & Sons.
Ottawa and cities nationwide marked Victoria Day in memory of Queen Victoria. Celebrations were subdued with fireworks largely canceled, focusing on athletic and sporting events to honor the late queen on her birthday.
A note recalls how twenty years ago a dozen plated tea spoons cost five or six dollars, while today a dozen sterling spoons cost only a few dollars more. Metals’ intrinsic value rises with time, making plated ware less common as sterling becomes the economical daily choice. Call to view plain and elaborate sterling patterns and begin collecting.
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