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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1906
Page
4
A mixed page from The Athens Banner includes political appeals urging support for T. F. Greene and a push for a new city hotel, notes on local governance, and a discussion of the Negroes Part urging crime suppression. It also contains reader notices about newspaper delivery and carrier conduct.
Baseball results show Montgomery and Shreveport games with weather or darkness interruptions. The Memphis series includes RHE and innings noted as 13 innings with a second game called for darkness. Shreveport defeated Nashville with a 37.3 to 26 score figure.
A brief health quip recommends Stuart's Gin and Buchu for diabetes and Brights disease. No medical endorsement provided.
Birmingham August 25 Mrs McVay wounded her husband William McVay in front of McVay's saloon on Second Street after calling him out with their four year old son present. Two bullets struck him. his prognosis is doubtful. She surrendered and said she bought the pistol to kill him citing his alleged infidelities. The bystanders were warned when she threatened them.
Raleigh Aug 25 Governor Glenn declines to pardon Susie Hannon the 12 year old white girl sentenced to four years and nine months in the penitentiary for killing a young man in Cabarrus county. He cites her bad character and bad influence from her father but offers potential future conditional pardon if she improves and a good home could be found. The case has drawn wide attention across North Carolina. The article also promotes Electric Bitters as a cure for kidney stomach and liver ailments and lists local druggists selling it.
George Thurmond offers a 175 acre farm four miles from Athens on the river road toward Jefferson. It includes a good dwelling, fine well water, barn, crib, cotton house, shade, a yard, pasture up to the house, three tenant houses, 25 acres of prime bottom land and timber to supply the place. Land yields one to two bales of cotton per acre.
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