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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1904
Page
2
The Athens Daily Banner outlines carrier delivery options with annual and semiannual rates and a weekly option. Payments are in cash in advance and remittances may be sent by express post office money order or registered letter. Subscribers should report late delivery or porch absence to the business office.
The page urges readers to mail notices with real names for publication and laments time constraints for phone submissions. It reports on Frank Henry Chardson’s death, Judge Turner’s prison commissioner race, Dan Sully returning to cotton exchange, and cotton prices prediction by William P. Brown. It notes Patterson’s Senate remarks and welcomes Rome Evening Herald as a new rival.
The article argues Georgia must raise teacher salaries to attract and retain talent. It notes current pay around twenty five dollars per month on average for many teachers, urging higher local taxation or new state taxation to fund better wages and improve the school system. It criticizes low salaries as a barrier to educational development and calls for legislative changes to enable tax-supported increases.
The Rome Evening Herald first copies arrive as The Banner congratulates the new eight page six column paper. Editor Holder launches with improved equipment a Mergenthaler machine and top journalistic talent to advance Rome Georgia journalism and business interests.
Clarke County voters experience the calmest campaign yet with minimal excitement in races. The piece praises peaceful politics and hopes campaigns continue quietly to avoid stirring animosities and divisions that harm community progress.
The passage sketches a tense pre election climate with references to Mormon doctrines and polygamy, mentions Congressman Spishts geek in congress, hints at Parker and New York Democrat as a likely candidate, and alludes to unrest and reform discussions amid a noisy political backdrop.
Testimonial from V Wad Swerman of Milwaukee Ohio Street? Milwaukee Wis claims Hood's Sarsaparilla cured him from catarrh and related symptoms after 20 years of illness. The ad asserts the remedy clears weak tissues, headaches, dizziness, and improves taste and hearing.
An anxious juror stepped forward to be excused from service due to a distant engagement this week. The panel was rearranged to seat him, while later it emerged the man had not been summoned and was the prisoner’s friend.
Fragmented, legendlike lines discuss Browning and Tennyson with references to a grand Palazzo and Surrey home. The dialogue hints at poetic fame and looming death while invoking Miss Chatterton and a quiet inner voice. The passage reads like a garbled quotation from a period piece with literary names and somber tone.
It Saved His Leg. P. A. Danforth of LaGrange Georgia suffered six months with a running sore on his leg. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve wholly cured it in five days. Ulcers wounds piles best salve guaranteed cure. Only 25 cents. Sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons and W.J. Smith & Bro. druggists.
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