Dispensary debate and local notices in Athens Banner
The Athens Banner reports on the dispensary petition circulating in Athens and Clarke county seeking repeal of the 1891 act. It notes signers include many white voters, with proponents arguing for prohibition while some signers hope for renewed open bars. Additional items cover Georgia summer school, local attitudes on whiskey, and a court case on legal death definitions and an insurance dispute.
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Athens
Clarke County
General Assembly
Jarvin
Burlington
Attendance figures for Sumter County schools in grand jury presentments
In Sumter county, 61 public schools operated last year with 3,865 pupils. 1,007 white and 2,845 colored students, the negroes outnumbering whites nearly three to one. Americas schools attendance of 1,500 is nearly evenly split.
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Americus
Grand Jury
Atendance
Sumter County
Americas
Georgia Decrease in Georgia Cotton Acreage Report
Atlanta June 7 The Georgia State Department of Agriculture releases its first crop report based on 750 county correspondents. Cotton acreage drops about 1 percent from last year with planting near 99 percent of 1905 levels. Replanting reaches 23 percent. fertilizer use under cotton rises about 10 percent from 1905.
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Atlanta
State Department of Agriculture
T. G. Hudson
Georgia
Hudson
Southern Cotton Association
Chamberlains Colic Remedy Praised By Friendly Users
Many users provide testimonials by recommendation though they hesitate to publish. The remedy is a reliable home medicine for diarrhoea and bowel troubles and is sold by H R Palmer & Sons and W J Smith and Bro.
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Chamberlain
H. R. Palmer & Sons
W. J. Smith and Bro
Athens Ice and Coal Co uptown office number
The Athens Ice and Coal Company lists its uptown office at 273.
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Athens Ice and Coal Co
Uptown
Negroes applaud Hammond 3 speech in Savannah
Commencement exercises at the Georgia State College for Colored Youths in Thunderbolt featured Judge W. R. Hammond of Augusta calling for repeal of the fifteenth amendment. The crowd cheered as a near unanimous vote supported the proposal to strip federal suffrage and leave rights to state sovereignty.
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Savannah
Georgia State College For
Thunderbolt
W. R. Hammond
Augusta
Hammond
Hammona
Diabetes and Sright's Dis Ease An Odd Phrase
A garbled OCR fragment mentions diabetes and a nonsensical phrase along with Stuart's Gin and One Fine Printing the Banner Lesda, suggesting interrupted or scrambled text from a historical newspaper page.
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Stuart
Lesda
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