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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
2
The Athens Banner lists subscription rates for city delivery and the Sunday edition, with payment methods and notices about no carrier collection. It also includes a long excerpt on historical export data showing shifts from agriculture to manufactures and an optimistic forecast of continued growth and global demand.
A Augusta Chronicle editorial notes the Mad Mullah’s return to raiding British East Africa after allegedly seeking refuge in Italian Somaliland. The piece warns against premature optimism, cites the Pittsburg Post on liberal hesitation, and entertains a grim joke about locating the arabian marauder only if he is both good and dead.
A Commerce and Labor bulletin notes rising per capita production in manufacturing versus agriculture. From 1880 to 1900 per capita values grew from 107 to 170 for manufactures while agriculture rose from 44 to 49, with recent years showing even larger factory gains. The New York Journal of Commerce estimates 1905 manufactured product value at 17.668 billion, over four times agricultural output.
A letter extols Devoe paint for wide cloth advantages comparing cost per job to cotton muslin. It stresses paint efficiency, longevity, and coverage with Devoe quality, urging Talmage Hardware to stock the product.
Residents in New York's Riverside drive district post white on black notices behind doors naming a safe deposit company to deter burglars. Widely taped signs have appeared on West Side homes after repeated thefts, with one on Joseph Kittel's corner opposite Grant's tomb noting jewelry storage.
G B Winter, a London tailor touring America to design army uniforms, extols American garments as among the finest in the world. He compares them favorably to English attire, noting their soft materials, graceful fall, proper cut, and distinct wear.
United States salt use reaches 26,872,700 barrels annually, about one barrel per three people. Domestic production rose to 25,966,122 barrels last year, with Michigan and New York as top producers supplying over two thirds. The 1897 tariff put salt back on the duty list at 12 cents per hundred pounds, while dry salt fetched about 31.51 cents per barrel.
A barber demonstrates a large fibre brush with three inch stiff bristles that swiftly untangles thick hair. The brush costs less than traditional bristle brushes and is praised for speed, cleanliness, and polish. An ad promotes De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for sunburn piles bruises and boils sold by Orr Drug Co.
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