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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1911
Page
5
Rates for the Athens Daily Banner are listed and delivery issues urged to be reported. Notices warn carriers no cash collection. rural free delivery and summer school growth noted. Geopolitical mentions include Morocco tensions and Canadian reciprocity. Local sports, memorials, and public matters are casually touched, with weather warmth in the South and heat deaths cited.
The piece cites two University of Georgia commencement speakers, one linking emancipation to white-people freedom and another describing the South today as emancipated from slavery. Dr Acby Jones argues democracy binds state and nation, with emphasis on education, sectionality fading, and South’s national role. Louisiana nominates Luther E. Hall for governor as Democratic field widens. Wilson Harman Marshall Folk Clark named among presidential hopefuls. Ollie M James, Kentucky Democrat, short-listed as Senate contender.
The piece praises Tom L Johnson’s lasting influence on public service and urges the Cleveland group and others to continue his reform program. It cites Chicago speech guidance, notes Johnson’s life beyond death, and frames his work as a lasting mantle for future leaders. It also lists historical notes and birthdates in a late nineteenth century newspaper style.
The air and outdoor activities resumed under dripping elms along steaming sidewalks as M. K. H. Dougherty of St. Athens Georgia appears in the scene, reflecting a lived local moment.
The State Geological Survey issues a valuable preliminary report on swamp and overflow land drainage in Georgia. It details investigations and reclamation potential, county examinations in Bryan Chatham Clinch Glynn Liberty McIntosh and Telfair, and proposed projects in Floyd Tel fair Jackson counties with an appendix on a new drainage law. The state has about 7 750 000 acres of swamp lands, largely unproductive and health hazards, available to copy by request at 8 cents postage.
President Taft hints at amending the Pure Food and Drugs law regarding prepared medicines but does not cite Foley's Honey and Tar Compound or Foley Kidney Pills as standard remedies. The text extols Foley products as long trusted treatments for coughs colds throat and chest ailments and notes their continued esteem among physicians.
E S Lopez of Manilla New York a carpenter always carries Bucklen’s Amnica Salve andclaims it heals every cut wound bruise or sore. An ad promotes Drages Hall’s Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a constitutional remedy with a promise of remedies and testimonials.
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