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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1906
Page
4
The Athens Banner announces subscription rates for daily weekly and Sunday editions, with yearly six month and three month options. It instructs readers to report late delivery to the business office and notes that carriers are not authorized to collect payments.
A newspaper discusses Dr Adolph J Vogeler and Dr T B Wiggin from Chicago who claim eighty five percent of residents are crazy and the rest near a mental breakdown. The piece doubts their judgment noting Chicago culture and the University of Chicago as possible influences.
A Georgia commentary argues against reform spelling and its abbreviated words. The Savannah News critiques Rooseveltian, curtailed, mongrelized abbreviations as unnecessary mutilation of English.
The article notes Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio predicting a shift in public opinion away from the Republican Party ahead of the upcoming congressional elections. It cites expectations of Democrats reducing the GOP House majority from 114 to about thirty and even aiming for control of the next chamber. Griggs of the Democratic campaign committee asserts the party has an excellent chance to seize the House.
The South leads in breadstuffs exports with six three percent of all breadstuffs sent abroad in the past year and a nearly one hundred percent increase. The figures underscore the region's industrial and agricultural advancement and pride in the land of sunshine and flowers.
The Ohio court convicts Standard Oil in a conspiracy against trade. The penalty ranges from 50 dollars to 5000 dollars per day of offense or six to twelve months in prison. The piece argues money fines fail to deter monopolists and jail terms may be more effective if enforced.
An old typographic plea from Athens Empire Laundry on Lumpkin and Clayton Streets argues for simplified spelling to please customers. The notice defends modernized language as a duty to readers and asks patrons to use the laundry’s new, easier style in communications.
H BA Harper physician and surgeon specializing in heart and nervous system disorders. Office above Dorsey and Funkenstein store on Clayton Street. Residence 713 Prince Avenue.
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