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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists mail and weekly rates with options of annual six month and three month plans and a weekly rate. It urges prompt通知 for late deliveries and warns carriers cannot collect payments. Also covers local items: Dublin bonds, the University Glee Club, prohibition, educational train, Pacific fleet, wage cuts, building boom, Rome city hall bonds, bishop appointment, and political notes.
The Athens Lodge of Elks leads fraternal groups in charity across the city. Members contribute over three thousand dollars and organize Christmas day distributions of groceries clothing and goods from Broad street lodge rooms. The lodge motto Do unto others guides their work and they maintain a prominent home for members.
A critique argues the New York World unjustly attacks William Jennings Bryan to influence the Democratic nomination. It asserts Bryan will be nominated at Denver, with the World pushing anti Bryan bias while Democrats seek unity. The piece defends fair debate and predicts Bryan’s eventual election with or without World support.
On February 27 events span from the Stamp Act passage in Britain to battles and births. Notable items include 1766 Parliament’s stamp act approval, 1777 South Carolina militia fighting Loyalists, 1836 General Alger born, 1891 Yuma flood, and 1900 Cronje’s Boer surrender.
Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice born February 27, 1859, is Britain’s Persia envoy and potential successor to James Bryce as ambassador to the United States. A seasoned diplomat, he has served as secretary in Brussels Washington Tokyo Berlin and Constantinople and held posts in Teheran and Cairo. His ties with U S public men bolster prospects if Bryce retires.
In Columbus Sun and Atlanta correspondence the Enquirer Sun notes the Georgia railroad commission now costs the state triple what the old commission did. Reports discuss Hoke Smith’s possible presidential nomination and political maneuvers around the prohibition issue. Liquor sales on Pullman cars drop, with talks of broader Southwide changes. Republican leaders plan to oppose disfranchisement while urging Negro qualification for October elections.
Mrs BE D Charles of Harbor Maine calls Electric Bitters a neighborhood favorite. It gives quick relief to dyspepsia liver and kidney issues malnutrition nervousness weakness and debility. This spring tonic purifies blood and is sold under guarantee at W J Smith & Bro H R Palmer & Sons drug stores for 50 cents.
A Boston woman in Ireland recounts the origin of the term Lynch Law from Galway in 1493. Judge James Lynch-Fitzstephen condemned his son to death for the stabbing in a display of stern justice. The Lynch Mansion and a historic tablet mark the event still visible to visitors.
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