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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1910
Page
7
Hon R E Davison recently elected prison commissioner files expense account showing 625 dollars in campaign costs including printing postage and newspaper ads from personal funds. He carried over one hundred counties and earned a large majority, with praise from supporters across the county and state.
An old advertisement extols Dr King's New Life Pills as matchless regulators enabling keen brain and strong body. It promotes recovery of energy, urging readers to buy at H.R. Palmer & Sone and W. J. Smith & Bros for 26 cents.
Glens Falls N Y Sept 7 All Labor Day festivities at Lake George Country Club were abandoned after architect Charles Samuel Peabody fell twenty five feet while inspecting decorations. Doctors reported internal injuries but skull not fractured. Peabody, a partner in Ludlow and Peabody, resides in Brooklyn and is connected to wealthy local families.
A 1910 Clarke County mass meeting called by Chairman John B. Gamble aims to elect a new county Democratic executive committee and ward committeemen. White male citizens are urged to attend September 10 at Athens city hall to select a chair and local ward reps.
A Watertown Wisconsin man, J A Swensen, reports eczema lasting ten years cured by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve after 16 doctors failed. The ad touts the salve as infallible for skin eruptions eczema salt rheum boils fever sores burns scalds pile cures and piles. Available 26 cents at H R Palmer & Sons and W J Smith & Bros.
Forsyth Ga Sept 7 Bessie Tift College the Baptist girls school will open Sept 13 with strong prospects Three voice and expression teachers have studied in Paris and Berlin and joined the faculty Aimed endowment of 350000 dollars is sought Baptist pledges pour in across Georgia with Rev J E Holley and Rev R A Lansdale as financial secretaries The Forsyth social scene brightens as hundreds of young women arrive for the fall term Recitals by Prof Lyon Thickatyn and Miss Mary Miller are anticipated Campus reopens with veteran teachers back at work and student life resuming
Oswego North Carolina resident A Cooper recounts a decades long lung cough relieved by Dr King's New Discovery. The testimonial claims it cured nighttime coughing and persistent colds. Advertising copy promotes the remedy with trial bottles and a money back guarantee.
City officials and a chamber committee secure Southern Railway backing for a new modern passenger station to serve 8. A. L. and the public. Work may start soon on College avenue site, with Chairman Bondurant praised for securing improvements. Mrs. Wilmert of Lincoln reports kidney relief and restored health after Foley's Kidney Pills.
Yesterday the up train backed into the yards as the baggage coach hit a switch and jumped the track. It turned halfway to view the passenger coach behind and, despite the mishap, no damage occurred. Passengers were shaken. a large man landed on a promoter in a sleeping car. The incident caused no injuries or trains disruption. State College of Agriculture reported summer farmers institutes boosting interest in agricultural work statewide.
Elberton Ga Sept 7 during a thunderstorm lightning struck into the home of Lake Burden in Gaines district tearing up three bedsteads and setting fire to bed clothes. Several children slept on the beds but were not hurt, only frightened. One bed was torn to pieces and scattered.
A narrator revisits the Hell-for-Sartin legend in Kentucky Appalachia, tracing a seven hundred fifty word story and a Sunday school named Hellfer-Sartin. He describes a church, local characters, a preacher with a checkered past, and a creek named from a tale of bravado, ending with a ride toward Jackson after a daylong quest.
Elbert on Ga Sept 7 The Elberton Star weekly has installed a No 5 linotype machine. Under W L Skelton the paper has prospered since he came from Atlanta to manage it several years ago. A future plan is to enlarge the plant. Chamberlains Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is praised as best known for bowel relief and cures griping diarrhoea and dysentery for children and adults, sold by all dealers.
The long disputed contest for the Eight Congressional District continues as Mr. Tribble files a formal answer to the commission’s resolution naming Arnold and Cauthen of Elberton to join Stovall and Maxwell in taking testimony. He argues the executive committee lacks authority, the 1900 and 1908 acts limit evidence and seal the ballot, and the ballot box was not kept unopened. Tribble cites county majorities and demands the contest be settled by law rather than by the proposed commission. The piece references Elbert and surrounding counties, including Franklin, Hart, Madison, and Oglethorpe, with notes on votes and procedures.
Revival workers Evangelist Charlie M Dunaway and Prof Hamp Sewell will lead a three service daily revival at the Methodist church starting next Sunday morning September 11 with sessions on the second and third Sundays. Also notes Chamberlains Liniment as a cheap remedy and political update reports insurgents gaining in Wisconsin Michigan and other states.
Atlanta recounts a riotous Watson convention scene and a wealthy West Peachtree resident who pays fares with a bag of small change. The piece also notes hobble skirt sightings downtown as labor parades pass by Ansley Park matron.
The first bale of cotton for Clarke County this season is anticipated Saturday with several bales in town. The season runs about two weeks late and open cotton is scarce north of Jefferson. A mass meeting in Athens aims to name a new Clarke County Democratic executive committee while executives gather for a congressional district event.
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