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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
2
The Athens Banner lists subscription rates and delivery rules with warnings that no carrier may collect payments. A long miscellaneous assemblage of garbled text follows, including fragmented notices and political commentary about primaries, party dynamics, and color line rhetoric, reflecting a page-wide clipping of varied items.
The piece comments on Geo Cartel facing bar charges over lift insurance payments and Teddy's denial of Judge Parker's charges about corporate money in elections. It notes a Blue and Gray gathering in the Gate City honoring Joe Wheeler and questions whether such sentiment can endure beyond words. It warns that partisan feeling remains deep when scratched.
In Georgia, education becomes a focal point as white leaders push for white schooling and oppose integrating negro education. Speaker M. Smith of Oglethorpe criticizes opponents and frames educational access as a racial issue shaping the state’s future and political platforms.
The piece accuses Hoke Smith of advocating voter disfranchisement through a literacy test scheme to bias registration against Black voters in Georgia. It alleges he would use registrar questions and aided answers to ensure white voters pass while suppressing Black registration, framing the approach as fraud.
The piece cites W D Howells in Harper's Magazine debating wolves foxes and dogs as heroes and threats. It argues the animal world reflects human virtues and vices while noting Howells praises intimate animal loyalty yet questions sustained moral argument in a long fiction piece.
W. W. Kearney of the Independent Lowry City Missouri says the remedy is kept on hand continually and is essential for family use. It can curb colds at the outset and cure faster, and prevents croup in children when given early. Sold by H. R Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro.
Candidates announce reelection aims for Clarke county offices including Sheriff Clerk Superior Court Tax Collector Tax Receiver Treasurer Coroner and more. The notices urge Democratic primary action and list several local lodges and fraternal groups with meeting details and officers.
Sanitary Inspector A. M. Center urges citizens to enforce the hog pen ordinance after April 1. The rule forbids keeping hogs from April 1 to October 1 unless pens are at least forty feet square or only two animals per pen.
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