Completes 57th Year at Lucy Cobb Institute
The Lucy Cobb Institute marks the fifty seventh year with a notable commencement in the chapel. Dr. Jones delivers the annual address on the claims of the classic amid simple, dignified ceremonies. Diplomas and certificates awarded. winners named, including Hunter Barnett and Edith Adair. The concert and Sunday sermon by Bishop Gailor highlight the weekend of celebratory events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Cobb Institute
Lacy Cobb
Jones
Ashby Jones
God
Athens
South
Judge Cobb
Gerdine
Miss Brumby
Seney
Manas
Sinai
Blake
Prises
Hun
Hearing on Leo Frank clemency completed in Atlanta
The state prison commission finished the hearing on Leo Frank's clemency request to commute his death sentence to life imprisonment. A governor's decision will follow within ten days. No opposition was voiced. The Roan letter and Mrs. Frank's statement featured, with supporters from Massachusetts and Georgia urging mercy amid doubt over guilt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Leo Frank
State Prison Commission
Frank
Roan
Mary Phagan
Dorsey
Howard
Foss
Massachusetts
Georgia
Women Admit to Aches and Kidney Woes Remedy Ad
A advert-style piece urges women to treat kidney trouble with Dean's Kidney Pills endorsed by Mrs. R. B. Bailey of Athens. She recalls dull kidney pain, dizziness, rheumatic aches, and relief after using the product eight years ago. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY promotes the remedy at 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. B. Bailey
Barrow St
Athens
Dean
Palmer & Sons
Bear Postman on Alaska Route Becomes Noted Mail Carrier
A bear on a bicycle carried a mail sack on a remote Alaska route, with the bear hauling the load while the master steadied the wheel. The curious outfit toured England for exhibition, drawing wide interest in the unusual postal pairing. A second item promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for summer colds, touting cough relief and nonopiate formula from H. R. Palmer & Sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
H.R. Palmer
oBns
Ody
Bear
Alaska
Brain
England
Nicholas
H.R. Palmer & Sons
Bible Not a Book of Fables Theme at State Normal Commencement
Sunday at the State Normal School featured a morning program and an evening sermon by Rev. R. A. Webb of Louisville on The Bible not a Book of Fables. He argued the Bible’s miracles and history meet Greenleaf’s tests for reliability, urging belief in its divine truth and urging students to live by its precepts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Normal
State Normal School
R. A. Webb
Louisville
South
Dr. Webb
EB. L. Hill
First Presbyterian Church
Hendel
Me—Warren
Webb
Athens
Lucy Cobb
Jesus Christ
God
Egypt
Sinal
Samson
Gideon
Elijah
Elisha
Jonah
Aesop
Baron Munchausen
Grim
Greenleaf
Harvard University
Foley Kidney Pills Ad Promises Pain Relief
A short health ad urges readers to visit health resorts to purify the body and ease rheumatism backache aching joints and muscle pain. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills by H. R. Palmer & Sons as a remedy to restore kidney activity and make users feel well and strong.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Foley
H.R. Palmer & Sons
State Laws on Corporations Study Uniformity and Losses
A Washington May 31 report by the old bureau of corporations to President Wilson urges uniform state taxation laws for foreign corporations. It notes that nonuniformity hampers business and causes unwitting violations and favors a uniform draft from the commissioners on uniform state laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Bureau of Corporations
Not For Men Only Cathartic Advertises Equal Benefit
Not for men only, women suffer indigestion and constipation alike and need the same scientific remedy. Foley Cathartic Tablets are wholesome and cleansing, do not gripe or cause nausea. Stout people say this cathartic relieves that overfull clogged feeling. H. R. Palmer & Sons advertise. Manufacturers of the state form an association to be heard from this year on state industry matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Woods Banking Official Embezzlement Sentencing Delayed
Judge Brand convened a brief session in Superior court and postponed the sentencing of R W Woods cashier of City Zens Bank and Trust Company convicted of embezzlement to Saturday. Woods had been recommended for misdemeanor punishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brand
Superior Court
R. W. Woods
Cityzens Bank and Trust Company
Bible Contest Shelves 107 Helen Gould Bibles at Normal
At State Normal, 107 young women earned Helen Gould Bible prizes for memorizing 500 verses each. Dr Webb delivered the Association sermon as the contestants stood in a unique competition overseen by a named judge. The event marks the institution as a regional leader alongside Randolph-Macon Women’s College and Miller’s College in Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Normal
Helen Gould Foundation
Helen Gould
Webb
Association
United States
Athens Institution
Randolph-Macon
Woman's” College
Miller's College
Virginia
Dead in Bed Miss Jona Mote Found Dead at 16
Miss Jona Mote was found dead in her Tallaser Bridge area home on Sunday morning. She was 16 and believed to have died of heart failure. Her father had died a year earlier and her mother died months later. She was the granddaughter of Mr. N. A. Fowler. Funeral and burial will be at Whitehall today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jona Mote
Tallaser Bridge
N. A. Fowler
Whitehall
Foley Kidney Pills Advertisement Claim
An ad promotes Foley Kidney Pills to restore kidney and bladder health, reduce daytime pains and nighttime disturbance, and renew energy and vitality. It warns against postponing treatment and names H. R. Palmer & Bros as advertisers.
Dunston Succeeds Childers Collector
At a directors meeting of the Retail Merchants Protective Association on Friday afternoon May 2, W L Dunston was elected successor to John L Childert as collector. Dunston begins duties June 1 and is noted for work with Michael Brothers and W I Hancock Coal Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Retail Merchants Protective Association
John L. Childert
W. L. Dunston
Dunston
Micchael Brothers
W. 1
Hancock Coal Company
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gailor
Ter Barnett
Jennie Smith
Margeretta Morris
Edith Adair
Commerce
Frederika Beatty
Natalie Bocock
Jeane Carter
Newborn
Mary Will Kennon
McRae
Lilian Mitchell
Mary Morris
Minnie Moss
Mary Nisbet
Macon
Meadow O'Farrell
Julia Orr
Margaret McLeod
New Orleans
Mien Wolff
Edna McKinney
Moselle Lyndon
Austin
Texas
Louise Mays
Augusta
M. McLeod
Saint Moss
Melisse Hood
Sara Swift
Virginia ‘Hand
Mary Louise McElmurray
Elisabeth Moss
Vivian Fulghum
Moselle Ashford
M. Hood
Preshman
Hunter Barnett
O. Short
J. Broyles
W. Holiday
T. L. Goulding
M. Lester
Mathematics
V. Fulghum
A. Chandler
N. Young
V. Hand
D. Hodgson
Louise Upson
Ellen Wolf
Judith Moss
R. Jack- 1
Meru
F. Beatty
J. Orr
N. Bocock
M. Moss
Goodwyn
A. Linton
E. Moss
Swift
Katie Belle Miller
H. McDorman
Ruth Jackson
Frances Bond
Omar Short
Oratory
Mignon Davis
M. W. Kennon
M. Rhodes
M. Haseltom
E. Wolff
M. Ashford
B. Adair
Alice Chandler
Nellie Young
Cornelia Abney
Gam Lee Goulding
Hallie Mary Kilpatrick
Joan Morris
Mary Strahan
Martha Mills Holliday
Mary Lester
Elizabeth Coker
Mathilde Upson
Lily Rogers
Nelle Young
Nina Davis
Emily Deadwyler
Dorothy Haselton
Louise Callaghan
Winnifred Davis
Gertrude’ Chandler
Gam Lee Gaulding
Oy "Lacy Lampkin
Lois Lampkin
Margarethe Morris
Dorothy Barrett
Anne Hinton
Frank Case
Christ
R.W. Woods
Vladder
H. R. Palmer
Bons
Adv
Childers
Germany
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!