15 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1881
Page
1
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The piece surveys Garfield s inaugural address and argues the South bears shared blame for election abuses. It traces education reforms from Pestalozzi to Froebel, praising the new focus on science and structured learning, and notes parallel Panama Canal and global finance discussions while detailing various contemporary incidents and opinions.
A broad array of notes from Georgia towns includes marriages, crimes, fires, and local developments. Highlights mention J. P. Nelson and Miss Tommie Farcer wedding in Talbot county, a Savannah man killed by a wagon, infanticide in Savannah, a coroner’s verdict of death by a son, and a Griffin preacher interrupted by unruly attendees. Also reports of rice crop plans near Albany, a Perry firm, and road work near Talbotton with a looming strike.
In this era summary a Wisconsin legislative caucus fight over Senator Cameron unfolds with anti machine blocs gaining support and possible James M. Bingham candidacy. Other items note Hayes administration politics, Irish land league tensions, German immigration rise, and rail line earnings. A Danville hospital fire threatens hundreds of patients while a Michigan minister reports a lifetime record of abstinence and charity.
McNutt Ga March 9 81 residents extend thanks to Hon Emory Speer for garden seed publicly and for documents. Daughters of S Wise awakened by noise in yard observed suspect leave smokeshouse but meat remained. B Cheely went to Gainesville on legal business returning shortly. Fifty cent lawsuit stirs talk with judge T C Hays ruling in first trial and a jury offset in second then confessing to error.
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