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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1911
Page
4
The column mocks bargain senate sales and urges action on Lorimer bribery amid calls for reform. It cites Wilson, Reid, Bailey, La Follette, and Irish and Mexican issues, warning of bribery probes and urging swift senate action to purge the body of corruption.
The Georgia Library Association session urges state residents to expand public libraries. Addressing city and county leaders, Henry E. Legler of Chicago stresses libraries as vital for education and culture. The piece argues private libraries cannot replace public ones and urges timely investment in books.
A House bill would remove duties from many items under the Dingley law, potentially lowering costs for reef meat, lard, flours, salt, farming tools, and bagging. The measure may face trouble in the Republican Senate but if enacted and signed by President Taft it would greatly benefit American farmers.
April 19 entry recalls Gardiner G. Hubbard a Harvard graduate who became a sugar planter in Hawaii, toured the world, studied architecture in Paris, practiced in New York, and aided early aviation with an aeroplane designed at Baddeck. The column touches on political cautions about constitutional updates, Stolypin’s role, a foreign view of American money, a proof in Albany’s capitol fire, and Harvard’s teacher exchange with Western colleges.
A condensed excerpt from an April 4 Macon Telegraph piece critiquing modern progressives. It recalls Benjamin H. Hill’s 1879 Senate speech praising the U.S. constitutional system as national and federative, arguing against altering the Senate’s equal-state representation and warning against populist reforms. It cites Depew Hoar and De Tocqueville to defend the founders’ design.
Mrs Laura Gaines of Avoca Louisiana credits Electric Bitters with saving her life after four doctors gave up. She suffered fainting spells dizziness backache weakness and kidney debility. The remedy restored health strength and vigor guaranteeing satisfaction or a refund at 50 cents.
Scores show Athletics over Quakers 3–2 and Cardinals defeating Browns 7–0. Several fraternal lodges and Masonic groups meet weekly at Max Joseph Building with schedules and officers listed. City rail timetables provide daily departures and arrivals for Central of Georgia, Seaboard, Southern, and Georgia lines in Athens.
An advertised tonic claims to tone and heal mucous linings of the stomach bowels and bladder and invigorate the liver and kidneys. It is described as unmatched for debility nervousness stomach trouble kidney affection rheumatism and general breakdown and is sold exclusively at this point by H. R. Palmer & Sons.
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