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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1911
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists subscription prices and payment options, warns carriers not authorized to collect, and urges readers to report delivery issues. It then promotes civic items including support for orphans, the Chicago exposition, a plow factory proposal, and political context around Joseph M. Brown.
Veterans from the North and South plan a large peace jubilee in Washington after a Memphis gathering of Federal and Confederate veterans with over five hundred attendees. They expect the fifty year gap since the war to soften old animosities and foster cordial reunions between former foes.
The sugar price has reached unprecedented highs affecting households nationwide. Consumers face higher costs with households limiting usage and activists urging boycotts, while the sugar trust maintains its advantage amid broad public concern.
The article warns the boll weevil will reach Georgia and devastate cotton fields as it has in Texas Louisiana and Mississippi. It urges farmers to plant early resistant crops and diversify, citing Louisiana as a model where corn and strawberries prosper after shifting from heavy cotton dependence.
A list of notable dates and figures including Lord Nelson born in 1758, and deaths of Michael Hillegas 1804 Emile Zola 1902 Rebecca Harding Davis 1910. Also milestones such as 1802 Boston first Roman Catholic church dedication 1854 St Arnaud Crimea, 1890 Providence cotton mill centennial, 1899 Dewey parade.
Alfred Urion, born near Salem New Jersey on September 29 1863, became a prominent Chicago bar leader and president of the Chicago board of education. He studied law in Fargo North Dakota and Saint Paul Minnesota, was admitted to the North Dakota bar at 21, later joined Armour and Company and rose to general counsel after moving to Chicago.
From Gainesville News. Former Governor Joseph M. Brown announces entering the race to fill the unexpired term of Governor Smith. The paper lauds Brown as wise and capable, noting Georgia prosperity during his administration and urging supporters to secure his election.
A fragment from the Maine prohibition debate shows Maine’s status swinging between wet and dry. Col Maurice Speigelberg ponders the shifts, while a poem mocks the back and forth as local papers report conflicting outcomes. Other items note ads and a Kansas verdict of 10,000 for a waitress in a wedding joke promise.
The line from the Nashville Herald notes Joe Brown only needs to wiggle his third finger to win the governorship. The Gainesville News reports he has begun this gesture, signaling campaign momentum.
A Clarkesville Advertiser reader argues for his district's congressman, praising him as courteous, kind and obliging. The item questions whether such traits suffice for superior statesmanship.
Train times for Central of Georgia Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway serving Athens Georgia list daily departures and arrivals from Macon and Athens with northbound southbound options. Georgia Railroad and Gainesville Midland timetables noted with effective dates. Lodge directory listings for local Masonic and fraternal orders follow with meeting nights and locations.
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