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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
4
A dense Athens column urges prompt notice to the business office for late deliveries and asserts carriers cannot collect or sell papers. It surveys Taft, Underwood, Champ Clark, tariff policy, Brinson railway, local politics, a poultry show, agricultural education, a Taft Western tour, and calls for effective Sherman antitrust law and tuberculosis dust research.
Prominent New York and Georgia newspapers back a Glidden tour from New York to Jacksonville. Athens is urged to enter entries to attract visitors, investors, homeseekers, and new citizens, with emphasis on city pride and regional development.
Speaker Clark weighs in against President Taft on tariff policy. He argues the wool bill was carefully prepared and debated, contrasts pace with the Payne bill, and asserts Underwood's wool schedule received full consideration before passage and veto.
A Philadelphia sermon denounces mob violence after a Coatesville lynching, arguing mobs trample law underfoot and that the herd mentality and spirit of darkness, not leadership, drive such acts. The preacher warns against excusing lynching and cautions that similar mob impulses could recur elsewhere.
This item lists historical events and births tied to August across years from 1422 to 1907 and notes the 75th birthday of Bishop Alfred M. Randolph born August 31 1836. It covers Henry V death, Delaware grant, Washington Rochambeau entry, Gautier birth, Charleston earthquake, and Randolph biography.
Delegates arrive in Birmingham for the Republican state convention to elect a new state committee and chairman. Harmony expected as long standing factional splits ease, convention to back Taft administration and plan next campaign.
Scores from Montgomery, Nashville, and New Orleans show Birmingham and Chattanooga games with various battery lineups. Umpires are listed. the text notes a Foley Kidney Remedy advertisement targeting kidney and bladder ailments.
Madison Ga August 30 a large cotton farmer in Morgan county ginned twenty four bales of cotton and will hold it for 13 cents. Other growers across the county will follow as fast as they are ginned. An ad note promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for hay fever asthma and summer colds with a testimonial from E M Stewart of Chicago.
A fire at an early hour yesterday damaged a cabin on River Street occupied by a colored family. The janitor Harrison, longtime court employee, lost furniture clothing and household effects in the blaze. Officials and courthouse attorneys opened a subscription to aid the family.
An ordinary case of diarrhoea can be cured by a single dose of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. This remedy has no superior for bowel complaints. For sale by all dealers. The willow plume seems to have had its day and will likely exit with the summer.
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