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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1905
Page
7
In the Texas Panhandle, Sheriff Smith defends swift force in serving papers, citing past extreme actions as justification. A San Francisco Chronicle report notes panhandle lawmen risk escape attempts, with local dialogue recalling a village inn conversation between two sportsmen about catching trout and cigars.
In a published note editor Banner quotes a Sherman Texas dispatch claiming Theodore Price sought Wall Street support to force cotton down this week. Price refutes the report, denying any such dispatch or aim to depress prices. He argues the Southern Cotton Producers Association could aid planters and favors market balance for producer and consumer alike.
In a critique drawn from the New York Commercial, Sage explains his wealth was kept in a bank vault to remain freely usable for helping several adversaries when needed. He argues money in circulation benefits the community, compares investments to other expenditures, and defends thrifty living as a duty to circulate capital.
During hot summer months the first signs of diarrhoea in children require immediate care to prevent serious illness. A few doses of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by castor oil can cleanse the system. Rev M O Stockland of Little Falls Minnesota endorses its use for summer disorders in children. Bold by local Athens pharmacists. On Fing Printing The Benner kesse.
The Forest Service proposes a nationwide Forest Products report detailing annual cut and shipments of lumber shingles lath and other outputs by state region and species. It would include stumpage stock on hand wood used by industries and estimates of how long current cuts will last.
An advertisement extols Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to reform bilious and dyspeptic sufferers. It claims the tablets invigorate the stomach and liver, strengthen digestion, and regulate bowels, with sales by H. S. Palmer & Bons and a local druggist.
A keeper with a madhouse collection of lunatics letters explains why many are never mailed. Excerpts mention Theodore Roosevelt, Edward VII, Rothschild, the Sultan of Morocco, the Pope, and the 12 Apostles. The piece notes daily volumes of such letters and lists popular recipients like James H. Hyde and Thomas W. Lawson.
Editorial urges farmers in Georgia to embrace the Southern Cotton Association and agrarian reforms. It highlights institute discussions on cotton, diversification, labor, tenant systems, soil improvement, livestock, rural education, fertilizers, and farm organization as pivotal steps toward higher productivity and priced cotton, praising renewed farmer resolve and public outreach.
A guest at the Waldorf Astoria found a gold mounted fountain pen and used it to write a letter. The pen proved ill fated as the writer learned the letter recipient died that day. A drafted $300 payment later vanished and the finder swore the pen hoodooed him. He planned to return it but it disappeared before he could. The tale ends with the moral honesty is best.
The Chicago Journal recounts a Frenchman claiming mastery of English who stalls on a dictation passage filled with homophones and archaic spellings. A Breachman confesses the error after attempting the line, noting his prior illusion of ease with English.
Fire crippled the Lackawanna railroad station and ferry terminals in New York on August 8. Crews diverted trains to Jersey City stations, added ferry service, and prepared to restore operations within a week. Estimated damages reach $500,000 as over 100 passenger cars were destroyed.
From Columbus Enquirer Sun glimpses of Georgia politics and society surface. Mentions Pleasant Stovall as editor and politician, divorce remarriage humor in Anderson South Carolina, a poultry powder mishap sleep-scratch story, and Georgia immigration talk. It cites Jack Slaton Lewington congress rumors, Hoke Smith Terrell County talk, and a Wisconsin fishing resort justice joke about Uncle Josh Rickaby with a Milwaukee workhouse sentence.
At a dinner discussion on Philadelphia voting fraud J G Gordon mayor’s counsel retold a San Antonio Express anecdote about a repeater. The jailed man, asked his crime, as a police officer said double voting, quips that he expected payment. Also an ad promotes Chamberlains remedy for dysentery and colic with local Athens outlets.
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