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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
5
Columbia Supply Co of Columbia South Carolina advertises injectors lutricators belts pipes valves and fittings plus machinery tools with a claim of highest quality at the lowest price and invites readers to write for details.
Macon Ga May 22 nominating committees of Mercer university board of trustees announced they will not fill presidential chairs with men prominent as preachers The board expects to offer the presidency to Dr W W Landrum of Atlanta if he agrees while aiming for a business or law figure Salary may reach 4000 per year Northern educators are eyed for vacancies left by resignations of Professor Clarke and Dr B D Ragsdale Trustees named Dr Jordan Dr J J White Dr S Y Jamison Thomas G Lawson and John G McCall as nominating panel members
Charles C Cox president of the Southern Female College at College Park died at Dr Slack's sanitarium LaGrange at 7 30 pm from a heart causing disease. The body will lie in LaGrange cemetery at 3 30 pm with funeral attended by many college girls. Survived by wife and daughter Alice, brother Professor Will Cox, and sister Mrs Crenshaw.
The Savannah Press endorses Professor Patterson’s stand for amateur athletics while urging careful scrutiny of his insinuations. It notes Athens students were hurt by removing two top players late, argues to keep college sports separate from professionalization, and cites the Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association’s amateur mandate. It also mentions a Spanish admiral appointment for King Alphonso.
Three negroes Rich Robinson Lewis Robinson and Claud Elder confess to the Holbrook murder claiming white man Aycock planned the crime and paid them five dollars each. The committee report urges speedy trial and calls for law rather than mob violence, praising the county’s orderly process and urging similar steps elsewhere.
Mrs. India Moore Hunter wife of Professor B T Hunter principal of Hunter's school for boys died at 9 o clock Monday morning at the family residence 165 Peachtree street She was 66 and is survived by her husband and four children incl Mrs William Lockett Mrs F L Wilder of Albany Mrs J W Barnett of Athens and B T Hunter Jr of Waycross Born in Summerville Ga she was the daughter of W A Moore A devout Presbyterian member of Central church she moved to Atlanta 18 years ago and during residence earned broad praise for character and influence in education and society in sorrow Professor Hunter has the sympathy of many friends
Des Moines Iowa May 22 Governor Cummings objects to equipping his statehouse apartments with a bathtub and refuses installation after a porcelain tub arrives. The capitol commission later lists an 1840 pound porcelain bathtub for sale at a bargain.
Advertisement quotes testimonials praising Ely's Cream Balm as the best medicine for catarrh. A Hartford man and an Arcola resident report relief after use. The balm is sold by druggists for 60 cents or mailed from Ely Brothers in New York.
Tampa man Ralph F Fernandez describes a deadly liver and heart ailment that robbed him of sleep and interest in life. After trying many doctors and medicines he used Electric Bitten, feeling a return of health in three days and claiming full recovery. Available at W J Smith & Bro and HR Palmer & Sons drug stores for 0 cents.
New York May 22. Governor Higgins and Senator Platt nearly triggered a political crisis over a legibility issue. Higgins stopped at the Albemarle Hotel and sent a visitor card to Platt. A boy delivered the card, prompting Platt to say he was busy and could not see the man named McGuire or McGinniss, as decoded by the boy.
Baltimore May 22 Geo Horst an employee of Monumental Brewery who tried to end his life by shooting himself on May 3 remains alive and appears likely to recover both bullets remain lodged one above the right ear and one below the temple Doctors describe his condition as improving and not yet fatal under ordinary events the bullets could have killed him.
A lake of liquid soda has been found in the Crestone Hooper region between Crestone and Hooper in the San Luis valley. The acre and a quarter basin contains soda crystals up to 18 inches deep, appearing like ice. State School of Mines reports crystals at 37 percent purity, purer than typical market soda. Denver man B E M Falke leases the land and plans to process the crystals for sale, with 4,000 tons in sight. Experts say feldspar decomposition in granite supplies the soda, held in a basin by an impervious clay.
A reader from Calhoun Georgia recounts a wife s aggravated cough kept awake at night doctors failed to help until Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds eased the cough aided sleep and cured her The note also mentions drug stores selling the product with price details and trial offers
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