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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1903
Page
4
A speaker warns that offences against health laws bring inevitable penalties. A man may break civil laws and escape punishment, but those who harm nature's laws suffer lasting harm. Many live as prisoners to illness, coughing and gasping, their lips stained with blood as they waste away.
A long list of residents and guests travel and visit in the city and surrounding towns. Names include Harry Peeples, W J Peeples, Captain James White, T P Spearman, Annie Webb, Ben Crane, C H Brand, Wallace Palmer, R J Hancock, J W McElhannon, J J Wilkins, Maud Lavenner, O N Hutcheson, Ed Taorner, T W Palmer, Mrs Webb, J A Pitner, Nellie Sprout, Hazel Gibson, Katie Christopher, O Y Weir, V J Parr, S T Philpot, J O Harrie, Helen Lacy, Carolyn Cobb, F B R Howard, Dan Conlon, John White Morton, John R White, Fannie Barnett, Stovall party, Sarah Frierson, Jessie Thurmond, Keith Conway, D F Miller, J E Talmadge Jr, J A Quillian, Ralph Goss, Isabelle Fleming, T H Morris, John Byson, Mrs Wm P Denger, A H Davison, Mary Ann Frierson, Fannie Turner and others, with trips to New York, Boston, Macon, Washington, Mount Airy, Tallulah, and various towns.
News brief from Athens records several marriages including Samuel Boone and Alice Haynes at River Street with Rev. Ellison D Stone officiating. H J Morrow wed Addie Payne and William Gary married Lizzie Herring with Rev. E D Stone presiding. A Laura Rutherford Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy called meeting plans to host Georgia Division inspectors for Winnie Davis Hall.
A collage of short notices advertises the Remington Typewriter used by many buyers, a demand for a local south sales agent, a Clayton Street store fixtures sale by E S Cheatham in Athens, coal prices from Lyndon Manufacturing Co, and a desirable Athens home and farm offered by E L Johnson.
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