Athens Banner ad rates and scattered editorial items
The Athens Banner outlines carriage and subscription rates, payment methods, and a request for timely delivery notifications. It cites political notes about Taft and the Alaska land scandal, Rockefeller’s age and spectacles, Senate tariff actions, a Chattanooga inspection trip proposal, and a Sumter County plantation sale at eighty thousand dollars with calls to break large plantations into small farms to attract new settlers.
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Georgia
Sumter County
Statehouse panel to hear colleges on Thursday afternoon
The appropriations committee of the house will hear from educational institutions Thursday afternoon. The cause of the various colleges will be presented by their representatives. Legislators seem inclined to support the institutions this year if finances permit. The state should enact tax laws to bring untaxed property onto the tax rolls to ensure funds for education.
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Appropriations Committee
House
State of the Treasury
Georgia Legislature Should Ensure Prompt Teacher Pay
The writer urges swift action at the current session to guarantee timely salaries for common school teachers in Georgia. It condemns existing meager pay and the need for teachers to endure months of delay and discount their wages to moneylenders.
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Georgia
The Banner Subscription Contest Opens With Big Prizes
The Daily and Weekly Banner announces a contest running until September 4 offering substantial prizes funded by subscriptions and money collected. It urges residents of Clarke County and surrounding areas to participate, emphasizing the paper’s service and the value of subscriptions to readers and friends competing for prizes.
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Clarke
Banner
Eighth Congressional District
Florida and the Convicts Face Lease System Reform
The Florida convict lease debate echoes Georgia’s past as citizens demand abolition and road labor for convicts. Governor Gilchrist vetoes the reform, arguing the lease system is more humane and economically beneficial, while critics contend the measure is sound policy whose time has come.
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Florida
Georgia
Gilchrist
July 11 History Highlights Across Centuries
On July 11 events span Champlain’s discovery, Marlborough and Eugene defeating French besiegers at Ondenards, John Quincy Adams born in 1767, Eastport captured in 1814, Fremont sighting Pike’s Peak in 1843, Confederates threatening Washington in 1864, Laurier becoming Canada’s premier in 1896, Miles arriving in Cuba in 1898, the South Carolina launching in 1908, and the Vatican protesting Spain’s treatment of religious orders in 1910.
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Champlain
Duke of Marlborough
Prince Eugene
Ondenards
Belgium
John Quincy Adame
U. S
Quincy
Mass
Washington, D. C
Eastport
Fremont
Pike's Peak
Col
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Miles
Cuba
South Carolina
Philadelphia
Vatican
Spain
Birthday of George W. Norris Leader in Insurgent Republicans
George W. Norris of Nebraska s Fifth District, a prominent insurgent Republican in the House, was born July 11 1861 on a Sandusky County Ohio farm. Orphaned young, he worked with farmers, pursued limited schooling, attended Baldwin University and Indiana Normal School, then a law degree before entering Nebraska politics. He served three terms as prosecuting attorney, was district court judge from 1895 to 1902, and elected to Congress in 1902.
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George W. Norris
Nebraska
Sandusky County
Ohio
Baldwin University
Indiana Normal School
Congress
Senate Bills Introduced Include Three Local Measures
In Atlanta on July 10, several bills were introduced in the senate. Proposals include Carlton's school bonds, gubernatorial appointment of high court judges and attorney general, a new St Marys city court, and a measure making liquor license possession prima facie evidence of guilt, plus a move to designate state depositories in Decatur. Also noted is Ely's Cream Balm advertisement and Hoboken voters opposing the commission form of government.
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Atlanta
Senate
W. E. Whitehead
Carlton
Felker
27Th
W. N. King
4Th
St. Mary's
J. H. Felker
United States
W. D. Crawford
J. W. Mayson
Decatur
State budget hearing on Athens street paving aid
Representative DuBose filed a bill in the House seeking a state appropriation to reimburse Athens for extensive street paving around the University of Georgia campus. Athens has funded campus improvements and extensions, with significant prior gifts and cash contributions noted by supporters.
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Atlanta
DuBose
Clarke
Athens
University of Georgia
Broad Street
Lumpkin Street
University
Legislature Actions and Notices In Brief
Monday House actions included Governor Smith’s four messages on mansion property disposal and a flood of local and general bills with early adjournment for committee meetings. Senate held a brief session, welcomed several new bills, and adjourned at noon. Advertisement for Bicaise’s Mange Cure and a notice on the dissolution of J P Fears & Son with business continuing under J P Fears. Indebted parties urged to settle promptly.
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Senate
J. P. Fears & Son
A. C. Fears
J. P. Fears
Wilson funeral announced for Mrs Love A Wilson
Friends and acquaintances are invited to a funeral for Mrs Love A Wilson at the Christian church this Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. Family members Mr Joe H Wilson and Mr and Mrs Charles Elder are noted in the notice.
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Wilson
Love A. Wilson
Joe H. Wilson
Charles Elder
Christian Church
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertised and Police Mischief Tale
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure offering one hundred dollars reward for cure and includes testimonials from F. J. Cheney Co. The piece also jokes about a citizen asking the police to investigate the theft of an evening paper for one penny, noting no action was taken.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
O. We
F. J. Cheney
National Bank OF Commerce
O. Hall
New Sleeping Car Line Between Atlanta and Memphis
Southern Railway and Frisco System inaugurate through Pullman drawing room buffet sleeping car service from Atlanta to Memphis via Birmingham and Frisco System. Depart Atlanta 4 10 p m arrive Memphis 7 30 a m effective Sunday July 2 reservations Main 142 city ticket office 1 Peachtree St. J L Meek A G P A James Freeman D P A Atlanta Georgia.
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Atlanta
Memphis
Southern Railway
Frisco
Tenn
Birmingham
City Ticket Office
Peachtree St
J. L. Meek
James Freeman
Georgia
Cardui touted by North Carolina reader
A reader from Lenoir North Carolina praises Cardui the women tonic claiming it strengthened her after a two week wash and left her stout as a mule she urges others to use the gentle vegetable tonic to relieve headaches backache and other weakness in women citing decades of use and a mail offer for information.
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Lenoir, N. C
Kate Waters
Lenoir, N.C
Cardui
N. B
Yesterday's Results Show No Memphis Atlanta Game
Wet grounds cancel the Memphis versus Atlanta matchup. In Montgomery batteries for Mobile and Montgomery, with umpires Pfeminger, were noted. Birmingham and Nashville listings include batteries for New Orleans and Chattanooga with umpires Fitzsimmon and Rudderham, and Atchison and Munson respectively.
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Memphis
Atlanta
Birmingham
New Orleans
Fraser and Angermier
Prough
Yantz
Fitzsimmons and Rudderham
Nashville
R. H. EL
Chattanooga
Covaleski
Higgins
Atchison and Munson
Colli
Flower
Seaboard Air Line and Gainesville Midland Schedules
Train times listed for Seaboard Air Line and Gainesville Midland effective June 1 1911 show daily mixed departures and arrivals with Sunday only services. Mixed trains run daily except Sunday with evening arrivals and morning departures, while Sunday services include specific morning or evening slots.
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Gainesville Midland
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Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Hoboken
du Bose
H. R. Palmer
Lenoir
Eeeeee
Montgomery
R. HE
Mobile
Ryan and Dunn
Sparks and Gribbens
Pfeminger
Central OF Georgia R. R
Macon
Seaboard Air Line
Athena
Athens City
Georgia Railroad
H.R. Palmer & Sons
Druggists
Clayton
Prince Ave
Groom
Boulevard
J. T. Anderson
Grates
Athens Engineering CO
Clayton St
Lexington
Barnett Shoals Road
Normal School
Jefferson Road
City
R. T. Goodwyn
E. C. Kinnebreww
Madison
H. R. McLean
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