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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1906
Page
6
The Athens Banner outlines subscription rates for city delivery and weekly editions with advance payment required. It warns that no carrier may collect payments and urges readers to report delivery issues to the office. It also references political remarks about Bryan and calls for a county police force to match changing times.
The Banner argues Clarke and Fulton counties should promptly create county police offices to protect white women from assaults by black assailants, contending the cost is worthwhile. It urges readers to support hotel funding and criticizes state convention powers over judicial nominations.
An article urges thrift and preparedness for sudden illness. It cautions that dysentery diarrhoea and cholera morbus may strike without warning and promotes Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as essential immediate treatment kept by H R Palmer & Sons and W J Smith & Bro.
In a Philadelphia setting a nervy tramp claims he is attached to dogs while a woman warns him to leave or be bitten. The scene unfolds amid tense exchange in a back yard as a dog figure looms. Separately a patron complains to a restaurant proprietor about service, not food, prompting a wry reply from the owner.
Georgia's 1906 tax returns total much higher than 1905 with an increase of 46.5 million dollars. County digests add 40.4 million and corporations add about 6.92 million, boosting the state digest to 535.25 million and corporate returns to 89.21 million.
Mt Vernon Lodge No. 22 F and A M meets second Thursday at Masonic Hall Clayton St. St Elmo Lodge No. 40 Knights of Pythias meets Monday at Castle Hall Max Joseph Building corner Clayton and Wall. Soquee Tribe No. 54 F O R M meets Thursday at Knights of Pythias hall. Reflections of a Bachelor and an ad for Electric Bitters are listed in the page.
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