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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1909
Page
9
A cluttered antique classified page notes coal from Athens Ice & Coal Co and Miller's furniture, shoe work, stove piping, and delivery services. It lists various merchants such as Martin Bros, Miller Furnish, Jester, and Erwin & Co with phone numbers and open hours, plus rental and sale items including rooms, houses, wagons, and furniture. The tone is promotional with offers on coal, footwear, plumbing, and furniture.
Reports from New Orleans indicate rebels encircling Managua with control of key cable stations at San Juan Del Sur. General Coshwa Saenz’s Nicaraguan forces reportedly seized Leon and Chinaguas towns on the Pacific coast, threatening the capital as Zelaya’s agents fear rebel victory and the government mounts a counteroffensive.
New York reports a severe blizzard moving northeast from the Atlantic. Wind speeds reached 68 mph at Block Island and 40 mph at Nantucket. Snow blankets northern New York with six inches in St Lawrence County. Quebec wires crippled. weather bureau has not received reports from the province.
A head on collision at Lind Washington involved a helper engine and passenger train No 4. The burning train left many passengers trapped as the mail clerk and engineer were reported missing amid washouts diverting service onto Northern Pacific tracks. Details remain sparse as officials withhold information.
An advertising claim states Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure kidney or bladder troubles not beyond medical reach, including backache and irregularities that could lead to Bright's disease or diabetes, with distribution through all druggists.
A 160 acre foothill site near Sierra Madre will host small sanitary cottages for TB patients rich and poor. The project offers home like comfort under expert medical care with nurses and an art craft shop, aiming at low cost and humane treatment. Dr George Martyn leads medical staff while Mrs Vavilian H Lunga supports as a director, framing it as humanitarian not profit driven.
Washington reports that Representative Mann will introduce a bill on opening day to stop traffic in young girls for immoral purposes. Endorsed by President Taft, it is expected to pass early in the session. The proposed law imposes a severe penalty, building on prior immigration restrictions against immoral aliens.
Rome Georgia reports that the February primary will select candidates to succeed Mayor T W Lipscomb who will not run again. Likely contenders include J Henderson Lanham a merchant FLW Copeland an attorney and councilman and J W Hancock a former mayor pro tem and manufacturer. J J Hanks a former mayor is also mentioned as a possibility. This will be Rome's first election under the new city charter with five at large council seats and three education board seats on the ballot.
Macon Gia reports Frederick Kauffman, indicted by a county grand jury on larceny after trust in funds of the Negro state fair, has fled sheriff eyes and is hunted at several points after bond set at 500 dollars, later raised to 1000. Attorneys say he will return. he previously ran the attractions at both state fairs.
The Tradesman reports substantial southern expansion with Alabama Attalla and Birmingham plants, Florida realty and hardware ventures, Georgia and Kentucky factories, Louisiana mills, Mississippi lumber firms, North Carolina traction and auto firms, Oklahoma and Texas investments, Tennessee mines and waterworks, plus Virginia Richmond electric facilities and West Virginia mineral ventures, totaling numerous new ventures and capital infusions.
The Chicago Woman's Trade Union League recommends a one day general strike nationwide if AFL leaders Gompers Mitchell and Morrison are jailed for injunction violation. President Mrs. Raymond Robins said unions nationwide would be asked to endorse the plan.
In Cherry, Illinois, November 25, crowds gather as the company seals the bodies from the St. Paul mine tragedy after a grim scene at the mouth of the shaft. Hundreds of grieving women and fatherless children cling to relatives amid sorrowful scenes unseen since earlier recoveries.
In Cherry crowds gather as hundreds watch the sealing of the mine after a deadly fire. Miners express anger at officials, demanding bodies for the dead while troops stay on site. Officials say the shaft will be sealed for three months to smother the fire, with a plan to open a new shaft later.
In Atlanta on November 25 an automobile carrying Mrs. J. D. Robinson, a nurse, and two children skidded while trying to avoid an oncoming car. It plunged thirty feet and ten feet into the Church of the Immaculate Conception area. The nurse suffered minor bruises while the two children miraculously escaped unharmed. the car was badly damaged.
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