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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1910
Page
3
An article extols right living for health and presents the California Fig Syrup Co as offering a preferred laxative. It claims Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna provides beneficial effects when taken timely and urges purchase from the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. and major druggists.
Various cities list low round trip fares open to the public for October to November travel. Fares include Birmingham 5.25 and New Orleans 15.05 with sale dates from October 10 through November, plus limits to return by specified dates and extensions for certain events. Authorities include Southern Railway agents and officials J T Meek A G P and James Freeman D P A in Atlanta Georgia.
The 1930 outdoor national championships draw top junior competitors today with seniors set for tomorrow. Contenders hail from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, St. Louis, Seattle, Los Angeles and many other cities as champions clash across events.
When merit Wins Foley Kidney Pills claim to cure disease tone up the system and improve vigor. They are advertised to ease backache headache nervousness loss of appetite sleeplessness and general weakness from kidney or bladder disorders. Sold by all druggists.
The Washington Gazette-Chronicle prints two strong editorials urging loyalty to Democratic Principles and opposition to Independentism in Georgia. It argues Democrats must support nominees, stand by the party, and resist populist splits while citing Georgia’s Reconstruction era gains and recent primary tensions.
Athens notes a young pianist Hugh Leslie Hodgson returning from two years in Berlin under Stepanoff. At Lucy Cobb chapel he performed Bach Tuusig variations, Brahms intermezzo, Brahms rhapsodies, Chopin Berceuse, Chopin Etudes and Waltzes, Rubinstein pieces, Liszt works showing refined technique and promising future.
Leading hotel men from across Indiana met at the Claypool in Indianapolis to discuss plans to aid the repeal of the county option law. They report reduced patronage and profits due to the operation of the law.
Los Angeles October 14 The last project of the late Collis P Huntington will be completed tomorrow with the final spike in the Owens Valley railroad. The line is regarded as a great enterprise and the best route opened in the region. It serves four aims: check Western Pacific, connect Los Angeles with Owens Valley, provide a new tourist corridor, and relieve annual freight congestion during orange shipments.
Scranton welcomes delegates for the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U. annual convention. Opening ceremonies and visitor receptions set the tone. Regular sessions start tomorrow and run through Tuesday with officers led by President Ella M. George and other state officials heading the event.
Boston October 14 The keynote topic at the opening session of the Association of New England Colleges and Preparatory Schools is the relation of endowed eastern colleges to public schools. U S Commissioner of Education Elmer E Brown and MIT professor Thomas A Jagger Jr lead the discussion.
A vintage advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the perfect healer for cuts corns burns bruises sores scalds boils ulcers eczema salt rheum and sprains. It claims eye sores chapped hands and piles respond, offered at 25 cents by H. R. Palmer & Sons.
In Waycross Georgia on October 14 the Confederate monument was unveiled as a city gift from the Francis S Bartow chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy. Governor elect Hoke Smith delivered the principal address to an impressive crowd.
An ad extols Dr Kings New Life Pills as a preventive against appendicitis and constipation with benefits for headache and chills. The medicine costs 25 cents at H R Palmer Sons and W J Smith & Bro in Fort Wayne Indiana. Meanwhile Indiana Woman's Christian Temperance Union holds a three day annual convention at First Methodist Episcopal church with leaders Clinton N Howard and Ida Nix among speakers.
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