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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1909
Page
3
A local shop lists baby garments including knitted robes and sweaters in white, blue, pink and multicolor. Items range from 35 cents to 1 dollar 50 cents with notes on warmth and protection against cold and pneumonia. Some pieces feature crochet, wool or silk and small mittens are also offered.
President Taft visits Wilmington accompanied by Governor Kitchin and local officials. He tours Fort Fisher, St. Phillip's ruins, and Fort Caswell, attends a public address at City Hall, speaks to colored residents at St Stephen's Church, and ends with a Mason Temple supper. Local festivities and a long luncheon aboard the Seminole crown the day.
The Episcopal missionary council of the third department met in Washington D C with strong turnout from Pennsylvania Maryland West Virginia Delaware and the District of Columbia. The session will continue over tomorrow.
Memphis Tenn November 9 The Southern League extended its agreement for ten years starting with 1910 and kept Little Rock in the circuit after hours of debate. Atlanta won the pennant while president Kavanaugh and the board of directors were re elected. The league set an 140 game schedule for 1910 and limited squads to 14 players after thirty days.
Wichita grocer N. Brees declared it wrong to sell tobacco after professing revival faith. He piled his entire smoking and chewing stock in the street and burned it, proclaiming he had won the battle with the devil. Fellow converts then held a brief service in his store.
An old advertisement claims a settled cold requires several days of treatment and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the quickest cure that restores the body's natural health. It states the remedy is sold by all dealers.
Jorge W Koons reports dramatic relief for rheumatism from Dr Detchon’s Relief. His wife could not lift a hand or foot for two months but improved after starting the remedy. She rose, dressed, and walked to breakfast within days. Sold by L P Canhing, corner Clayton and Jackson streets.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis founded in Detroit in 1889 begins its annual session in New York with a public meeting at Temple Beth El. Major topics include Jewish immigration intermarriage the workingman and the synagogue and the religious school.
A vintage medicine ad claims disease comes from the blood and that pure blood guarded by iron keeps people healthy. It touts Vinol as a combination of cod liver oil and tonic iron to rapidly raise red blood cells and strength.
In Macon Georgia on November 9 a Farmers Union conference adopted a resolution condemning plans in Congress to destroy treasury notes and melt silver. Leaders Fred D Wimberly and Charles McGregor urged preservation of currency and expansion of coinage and silver certificates to meet a growing economy.
Mrs John Jacob Astor received an interim divorce decree from Justice Mills in New York mixing sealed papers and guarded records. Colonel Astor, reportedly, travels the West Indies aboard the Nourmapal with Henry W Taft as counsel. A settlement of ten million dollars in lieu of alimony was indicated and Ava Willing Astor was the former Miss Philadelphia bride.
Judge John T. Pendleton of Fulton Superior Court laments rising divorce cases from about fifteen yearly in 1905 to over 300 now. He attributes alimony incentives and fault lines among hardworking husbands and nervous wives, urging tenderness for ill spouses while noting the worsening problem. A separate note profiles Mrs. James Duncan’s claim of dyspepsia relief from Electric Bitters for indigestion and related ailments.
Night Watchman Durham was found murdered at the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company's fertilizer plant in Americus Georgia. His head battered by a chop axe, his pockets robbed of eight dollars. The clock showed he had completed his rounds at 3 30 and Governor Brown may be asked to raise the Sumter county reward.
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a granite building costing about 1 060 000 dollars, opened with a reception for officials and donors. The main floor hosts exhibitions with classical and Renaissance art, while the right half concentrates on ancient Greek and Egyptian artifacts and the Japanese collection. A stray medical ad about Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets follows.
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