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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1905
Page
1
The Royal Baking Powder company promotes 40 years of scientific work in bread and cake raising. It affirms exhaustive study both here and abroad and presents its product as pure and efficient. Cited authorities worldwide commend its purity, signaling two important points for housewives.
Atlanta Georgia April 6 prison commission recommended a pardon for Green H Arnold a white man of Jackson county serving twelve months for illegally selling liquor He has served about seven months His act to prevent a mass escape when guards were shot and fled led to the special recommendation and the governor has acted favorably Arnold will be released at once.
Yesterday afternoon the Commerce Oil and Ginnery Company ginnery burned to the ground after a lightning strike. A peculiar storm brought rain, snow, sleet and thunder in Commerce, then the sun returned clear. An unrelated note promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism with local dealer listings.
Editor Sam Small endorses Hon. James M. Smith of Oglethorpe County amid a dispute with the Bainbridge Search Light. The piece recalls history, notes two James M. Smiths in Georgia, and defends the governor from unkind labeling while urging mutual understanding between media figures and public servants.
Mrs. Marty Floyd McAdoo of Knoxville and sister of Captain Floyd's wife seeks to break the will of Mrs. Harry A Floyd Gopcevic of San Francisco who left over 600000 to a street car gripman. Grounds include alleged undue influence and possible lack of mental soundness.
The farmers of Oconee county back New Orleans resolutions reducing cotton acreage and fertilizer use. They held meetings, discussed the situation, and concluded that a large cotton crop would ruin farmers financially. If similar action spread statewide, the state and south would improve next year.
New York on April 6 the engagement of J. G. Phelps Stokes, millionaire philanthropist, to Miss Rose Pastor, a longtime east side settlement worker and former writer for the Jewish Daily News, was announced. Pastor, born in Augustowo, Russia in 1879, has devoted herself to tenement reform work. Stokes has long supported settlement efforts.
In Rockland Maine on April 6 sheriff deputies raided a wholesale grocery store opened by Governor William T Cobb and associates. They seized patent medicine alleged to contain high alcohol content and the entire stock of the city liquor agency, under a Maine prohibitory law enforcement bill.
In a letter from Honey Grove Texas Col John M Fuller says he was near death from kidney and digestive complaints before using Electric Bitters. He credits the remedy with restoring his health after ineffective treatment from a family doctor. Sold and guaranteed to cure dyspepsia biliousness and kidney disease by W S Smith & Bro and H R Palmer at 50 cents a bottle.
Preparations accelerate for the third session of the University of Georgia Summer School in Athens with June 27 opening and July 28 closing. Officers include Chancellor W B Hill and Merritt. a large Georgia professors and teachers roster. courses span education, languages, sciences, arts, and manual training.
A public appeal defends the Bessie Mell Industrial Home as it lends its building to hospital use while stressing the ongoing mission to provide work and aid to the needy. The article notes reduced income from room rents, member dropouts, and urges Athens citizens to join as regular donors to support the home’s self respecting program.
New York April 6 Louise Rivers of New Rochille aged 11 died after collapsing at 218 jumps while attempting to set a neighborhood skipping rope record of 200. Doctors attributed the death to acute appendicitis uncovered after hospitalization. The item also advertises Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and an investment note for The Banner.
The Gwinnett Journal Editorial notes discuss potential candidates for the western circuit judgeship to succeed Judge Russell. It asserts Charlie Brand has strong local support across militia districts and could prevail, while questioning the veracity of reports about other candidates.
In Thomasville Georgia on April 6 a major blaze destroyed Oliver H. Keep’s palatial winter house at Flag and Broad streets, valued at 25000 with 12000 insurance on the house and 5000 on furnishings. Windborne embers then burned a Coast Line agent T J Bottoms home and sparked several other nearby houses, all saved or damaged mildly.
Des Moines Iowa April 6 To her brave rescue of George Hill from ten to twelve feet of freezing water Miss Lavinia Steele assistant state roman is awarded a Carnegie medal for saving his life during a winter skating incident.
A patent medicine advertises Chamberlain's Pain Balm as quick relief for rheumatic pains and lumbago. It claims excruciating rheumatism pains are rapidly eased, shocking thousands with its efficacy. Distributed by HL. W. Palmer & Bros and W. Smith & Bros for sale.
Clarke Superior court will convene in this city next Monday. The civil and criminal dockets are heavy and the court will have plenty of business for several days. One capital case, state vs Hal Deadwyler, is listed for murder. Juror lists may be revised and new commissioners appointed. Solicitor General Tribble will appear for the first time in this county.
A ragged tramp found unconscious at Young's Landing in Pottsville on April 6 had over $8,000 in his clothes, mostly in $100 bills. He begged at several houses in Port Carbon and Palo Alto for help, and a Philadelphia bank safe deposit box key among his effects suggests additional wealth.
La Porte Indiana April 6 Julius Schurr once mourned as dead for forty years, now a wealthy Texas ranchman, arrived in Michigan City and met his sister Augusta Leusch. She attributed the reunion to persistent prayer and said she never ceased supplication for his return.
Commander J N Boshoff returns from inspecting 150000 acres in Dodge County, New York financier D W Dodge owning the tract, deemed well suited for a Boer colony. Boshoff says Dodge will sell at fair prices in any desired acreage.
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