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Navy marketing rates for PH Athens Daily Banner shown, with annual and monthly options and cash advices. A long column of political editorials from Savannah News and Rome GA Tribune critiques imperialism, mindanao actions, and Bryan speeches. Mentions West Point address by General Manderson and skeptical figures on U.S. military expenditure in 1890.
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Athens Daily
Vance
Carl Schurs
Europe
Manderaon
West Point
Shameraland
A Good Maxim Is Never Out of Season
An old advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a family medicine. It claims to tone the system cure catarrh rheumatism scrofula and stomach troubles. It quotes customers from Sherborn Massachusetts praising appetite strength and health restoration.
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Ilood
H. Stone
Sherborn
Mass
Ton
Ohio
Mrstela
Hirth Ter
Tim
Elieves
Democratic Banner and Bryan's Speech Spark National Debate
In a wide national discussion, Bryan’s acceptance speech is lauded as a landmark of epoch, with critics noting vast U S military spending and contrasting foreign powers. The piece cites Gen. Cox and Jefferson as historical exempla, discusses church hat customs in Hackensack, and notes press predictions favoring Bryan amid Republican friction over Porto Rico and Philippine policies.
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Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Republican Party
McKinley
Porto Rico
Populists Nominate County Officers at Watkinsville Meeting
Watkinsville August 14 populists held a mass meeting at the courthouse naming a full slate for the upcoming election. The ordinary is contested by an independent Democrat. Rev. T. M. Foster seeks the legislature against B E Thrasher, while K E Wellborn faces the current officer for ordinary. Several locals and relatives are noted in short social mentions.
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Watkinsville
Court House
Johnson
Henry Thomas
T. M. Foster
Bishop
B. E. Thrasher
KE. M. Wellborn
Bogart
James Raiden
Cora
Texas
Harrison Upshaw
Forsyth
Calvin Upshaw
Walton County
Smith
Brutality Allegations Rise in Philippine Conflict
The New York Herald reports brutal acts by both sides in the Philippines. A Cuban soldier aided beatings to force insurgents to reveal arms, leading to a fatal injury of a lieutenant colonel and a court martial for the American officer involved.
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Philippines
New York Herald
San Miguel
Nober
Manila
Tragedy in Screven sparks manhunt and fear
Sylvania Georgia August 14 nine prisoners were lodged in jail linked to the murder of Fillmore Herrington and Milton Mears shot by a mob of negroes. Captain Jesse Wade, Herrington, and Mears were ambushed near Jesse Sanders house. Wade wounded but recovering. Reward offered. suspects fled to South Carolina. The killings sparked national alarm as arrests reveal premeditated attack and ploy around a peace warrant.
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Sylvania
Fillmore Herrington
Milton Mears
Savannah River
South Carolina
Herrington
Meare
Jesse Sanders
Captain Wade
Mears
A. P. Wade
Anye Hia
Jyaat
Wheeler Saves Bryan's Son in Narrow Escape
General Joe Wheeler of the department of the lakes saved William Jennings Bryan Jr., twelve, from falling from a window. The boy, playing with a chair caster and rubber bands, leaned out as Wheeler worked, nearly plummeting to the sidewalk before Wheeler hauled him inside by the legs and prevented a deadly plunge.
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Chicago
Joe Wheeler
Department of the Lakes
William Jenningsa Bryan, Jr
Wheeler
Bryan
Young Bryan
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