Athens Banner readers urged to vote and plan events this fall
Local notices report grey Monday in Atlanta, ongoing interest in Georgia agriculture, and community efforts. Athens residents are reminded of Daughters of the Confederacy events, Sons of Veterans meeting, and preparations for upcoming conventions. Governor Wilson campaign finance investigation is summarized with a statement of clean dealings.
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Sons of Veterans of the Confederacy
Athens
Daughters of the Confederacy
South
Wilson
McCoombs
Union
County unit school proposal urged for Clarke voters
A plea ahead of tomorrow's vote in Clarke County on adopting the county unit system of schools. The piece argues the plan has improved educational and economic progress in many Georgia counties, benefiting city and country schools and allowing access to city high schools without extra taxes or tuition. It calls for votes in favor to support progress and education.
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Clarke
Fulton
Bibb
Chatham
Richmond
Muscogee
Glynn
Tariff Reform Insight From Governor of New Jersey
The piece argues Woodrow Wilson aligns with the Baltimore platform, supporting business and consumers without aiding radicals. It quotes New Jersey Governor urging tariff revision starting with schedules that kill competition and raise prices, extend to monopolies, subsidies, and patronage, transforming taxation to fair charges.
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Woodrow Wilson
Baltimore
New Jersey
United States
Clarke County Pioneers in Permanent Road System Maintenance
Clarke county Georgia is highlighted as a pioneer in permanent roads using top soil surfacing and maintains its highways well. The article cites Prof Strahan on Clarke's method and contrasts maintenance practices with other counties, urging skilled supervision and continuous upkeep as essential to lasting good roads.
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Clarke County
Clarke
Strahan
Georgia
J. E. Pennybacker, Jr
America
France
Birthday and historical anniversary notes mark October fifteenth
This page notes events on October 15 including Chапlain arrival as governor in 1612 and Wilde born 1856. It highlights Martin Burrell born October 15 1858, his political rise in Canada, and his 1903 Grand Forks start. Also honors quigley Sullivan Burke and Matthews birthdays.
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Canada
U. S
President
Swallow
Oscar Wilde
Dublin
Paris
Springfield
South Dakota
Pierre
International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Pittsburg
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Martin Burrell
Berkshire
Englard
Niagara Peninsula
British Columbia
Grand Forks
My Own Column and The Grave Oddities
A collage of poem fragments and a rural shopping scene, featuring lines about the grave's darkness and divine light alongside a buyer negotiating vases for a mantel. Painted autumn landscape imagery contrasts with a folkloric shop interaction and a note on poetry's elusive painterly hue.
Markets Weather Stores Cotton Prices Mixed as Posts Decline
Weather cools with rain while cotton futures show mixed moves for August through December. Cotton oil quotes list steady to soft spots across months with the week ending values shown. A political note urges turnout at a mass meeting tonight at city hall as Judge Fite vows no mercy in the appeal.
Outdoor Health Lessons and Quirky Tricks from a Clip
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century page blends health tips, playful games, stray puzzles, and oddities. It includes an ABC of health, an outdoor game for boys, a strange sea sight of a tree with birds, conundrums, Halloween roasting of apples, and a whimsical fortune float experiment with walnut shells and wax.
Railroad Commission May Not Require mileage Pull
Atlanta, Oct. 14. The railroad commission is unlikely to issue an order requiring railroads to pull mileage on trains. Travelers and rail officials discussed exchanges, with railroads proposing extra staff to speed ticket mileage exchanges while resisting the old interchangeable mileage practice. The outcome may align with Governor Brown’s veto of a harsher mileage bill, a veto tied to political contention over his possible senatorial ambitions.
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Atlanta
Railroad Commission
Brown
Maddox 6. Wm. C. Eleven Defeated
Milledgeville Ga Oct 14 G M C ran away with Dahonega on the local field this afternoon to the tune of 38 to 0. The wet sloppy field did not stop the fast backs from making long gains repeatedly.
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Milledgeville
aDhlonega
Rhodes Scholarship Examinations At University Of Georgia
Several University of Georgia graduates and postgraduates join students from Mercer and Emory to take Rhodes Scholar examinations. The tests run today and tomorrow in the Academic building with a timetable listing Latin translation and prose, Greek translation, Latin and Greek grammar, algebra or geometry, and arithmetic.
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University of Georgia
Mercer University
Macon
Emory
Oxford
Appeal for Help Always Brings Responses
The Banner notes Athens residents respond to appeals for relief. It highlights several donations to a distressed family including a five dollar gold piece from a popular city young lady, a church minister, multiple checks, and a donor who sent a dollar bill with no identity.
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Athens
Masons to Visit Attica for Degree Work
Mount Vernon Masonic Lodge plans an away trip to Attica in Jackson county next Friday night to confer Fellow Craft degrees. About a dozen members will travel for the ceremony. The note hints at local politics and a push for a unit school system in Clarke with voters urged to act before polls close.
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Mount Vernon Masonic Lodge
Attica
Jackson County
Clarke
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