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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1905
Page
2
A lengthy editorial appeals for northern whites to respect Black citizens and work toward fair racial relations in the South. It portrays Black women as central community builders and highlights social ills among men, urging unity and reform.
The piece argues President Roosevelt cannot win Southern favor through Confederate descendant appointments. It says genuine esteem hinges on resolving the Booker Washington incident, the Indianola affair, and the Crump appointment before Southerners will view him favorably.
W H Council president of the negro college at Normal speaks in Bis Kansas, warning against Northern white labor and urging blacks to address their own injustices first. He argues the color line spread in the north and criticizes southern oppression as less feared than social prejudice.
An old advertisement promotes Scott and Browne's Scott's Emulsion as the best nourishment for growing children and settlers. It offers to send a free sample from their New York address.
Public notice extols Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as harmless for children and effective for coughs colds and croup. It warns against dangerous medicines and lists H. R. Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro as sellers.
Upper Sandusky Ohio January 5 Wm Myers who lives nearby trusts caterpillar coloring as a winter forecaster. He notes dark ends with a light middle signifying a cold early winter, a warmer middle, and a cold late part, matching patterns seen in 1903 04.
Leroy, the city’s renowned watchmaker, completed a gold watch of 75 parts with 24 movements. It displays hours, minutes, days, months, years and leap years, lunar phases, seasons, solstices, equinoxes, and solar risings. It includes a thermometer, barometer, altimeter, compass, and a solar map of latitudes and longitudes. It is valued at $5,000 and joins the Louy-Te Collection.
Norman Dole of Stanford University has been declared world pole vault champion after a 12 feet 1 72/100 inches vault at a Pacific Athletic Association tryout in Berkeley. The record vault came during preparations for a California track and field team to represent at the St. Louis Exposition.
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