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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1909
Page
15
The advertisement extols outdoor health, clean habits, and a wholesome diet for children. It promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Co as a gentle, reliable laxative used by families and approved by physicians. It warns buyers to ensure the bottle bears the company name and to avoid counterfeit products.
A story recounted of Fannie Green of Darktown confounding onlookers by rolling toward a sewer to escape hailstones during a storm. A police recorder notes Green’s intoxication and fear driven actions, while Judge Briles jokes about fines and imprisonment if her rolling exceeds her funds. Green reportedly rolled again after the exchange.
Historical account recalls Professor Lowe’s 1861 balloon voyage from Cincinnati to Pearidge covering over five hundred miles in nine hours. The event, occurring at the Civil War outbreak, drew suspicion in the rural Ohio county as a possible Yankee spy before cooler heads prevailed.
Indianapolis October 18 A resolution urging a unified salary scale for assistant postmasters was adopted at the National Association of Assistant Postmasters convention. The plan calls for salaries to reflect service value rather than a percentage of the postmaster's pay, with Westmaster Wooley of Jersey City presiding as sessions close tonight.
Margaret Illingtons stage name Margaret Nington filed for divorce in Reno district court alleging her husband has failed to support her for two years. The action seeks a dissolution of marriage and related relief in the thirty district court.
An announcement from Louisville dated October 18 reports Francis Irwin pastor of Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church has been offered the position of secretary of the college board of the entire Presbyterian church of the United States with headquarters in New York. Dr Irwin left Louisville for New York today to confer with trustees of the Northern Presbyterian Church in New York and is expected to accept.
Count de Lambert, Russian-born French aeronaut, flew from Juvisy to Paris and returned, circling the Eiffel Tower at 400 feet and completing the 50 kilometer trip in about 49 minutes. Crowds watched as he declared full control of the machine despite engine throbs, and Orville Wright joined in the celebration.
Charles Cummings treasurer of the American Banking Company and Edward A Mea, an agent for the same bank, were jailed in Boston on a larceny charge. Warrants allege $25000 stolen from Framingham and $25000 from Franklin Savings Bank on November 30, 1908. Bond attempt failed.
Washington October 18 The president pardons Bernard Insler a Roumanian who ran a fruit business and started a distillery in Hudson New York. He was convicted of defrauding the United States for Internal Revenue taxes and has already served most of his nine months in prison.
Paris reports that a pastoral letter issued September 28 by the French Episcopate warning parents that public school teaching jeopardizes children’s religious faith has led many pupils to refuse to use prescribed histories and other forbidden texts under parental guidance. The University of France seeks to enforce a text approved by it as mandatory under the education law and plans to test the issue in court.
Three unknown white men enter the Turf saloon on Cherry Street at noon in Macon. They threaten bartender A D Dewberry over near beer, and a shot fired from the door toward him misfires, hitting a building across the street. Police pursue but the trio and their companions escape toward Fifth Street. no arrests have been made.
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