Athens Real Estate Prospects Rise in Growing City
Athens real estate is described as healthy and appreciating with no boom. Agents say demand for small houses near the business district remains high, rents are low for size, and the city’s growth will lift property values. Brokers report strong activity, several pending moves, and expectations of continued rises.
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Athens
Banner
Robert Toombs DuBose
J. T. Anderson
Athena
Wmr. A
Bandits Defy Posse In Fatal Day Mountain Holdout
A Knoxville telegraph says two murder suspects who bound Watkin Newman to a bedpost and set fire to his house are cornered on Day Mountain by a heavily armed posse. Sheriff's teams from Hamblin and Jefferson are on site. the men refuse capture and vow to die. Newman, a wealthy Jefferson County bachelor, was burned in the blaze after being attacked. Vigilantes gather and threaten lynching if the pair are taken alive.
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Watkins Newman
Cincinnati
Knoxville
Tennasaga
Watkina Newman
Jefferson County
Day Mountain
Hamblin and
Jefferson
Astate
Newman
Scoren
Great Fire Destroys Ymir Timber and Mines
A massive fire at Ymir, British Columbia, Aug 19, devastates vast timber acres and several mine structures from the cyanide works to the Fogho mine. Workers waded water to hose flames, saving the cyanide plant while Wilcox and Blue Rock mine buildings burn. Men retreat to tunnels as flames advance, but casualties are not listed.
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Ymir
B. C
West Kootenaya
Yritr Company
Fogho
Wilcox
Blae
Kodol Digestive Aid Praised by Mother’s Recovery
Verona Missouri resident L W Spalding recalls his mother in her seventies improving after using Kodol to ease indigestion. She now eats freely and keeps a bottle handy, attributing better health to the remedy that rests the stomach and aids digestion.
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L W. Spalding
Verona
Na‘tare
Tenement Fire Kills Two Women and Three Children in New York
A fire at 36 Essex Street in New York kills two women and three children, with another woman badly burned and a man injured from jumping to the street. Names given include Rosa Moses and Jacob Moscovitz, while missing include Hannah Balothin and four children aged 3 to 8. A second note promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and a money-back offer.
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New York
Essex Street
Rosa Moses
Jacon Moscovitz
Hannah Balothin
Nathan Liebowicz
Moses
Jullux
Louis
Saille
Lichowitz
Fugitive Heir to Fortune Tied to Alabama Action
Commodore Thomas Corbin’s death uncovers the life of Francis Randolph an Alabama judge and alleged embezzler now a Colombian army captain. Alabama seeks $50,000 via foreign attachment against a local trust holding part of the estate valued near $1,000,000.
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Alabama
Philadelphia
Thomas Corbin
United States Navy
Francis OC
Randolph
Commodore Corbin
Charles L. Brown
Commonwealth
Montgomery
Ala
Colombia
Hillary A. Herbert
Brown
Common Pleas Court
State Normal School Opening Brings Large Turnout
The State Normal School opened yesterday to a brilliant session with nearly four hundred Georgia men and women. Dormitories filled and sixty students needed temporary housing from city residents. Speakers including Chancellor Hill and Rev Beatty welcomed attendees as President Erans noted potential for six to eight hundred students if space allowed.
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State Normal School
Georgia
Yeatesday
Theas
Chancellor Hill
University of Georgia
Troy Beatty
D. O. Barrow
Banday
Methodist Church
W. D. Hooper
Presbyterian Church
T. H Doster
Clarke County
Erans 2
Normal School
Tos
Legal Battle Still On For Control of Colorado Fuel and Iron
In Denver on August 19 the federal court resumed the fight over control of Colorado Fuel and Iron. John W Gates and allies seek an injunction to safeguard votes for his faction at the upcoming annual meeting, while the Osgood group argues their proxies and stock reflect the true majority and that Gates proxies may be of dubious value or forged. A physician notes a cholera infant remedy anecdote in the closing paragraph.
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Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Denver
Col
Ryper
John W. Gates
Bis Friends
J. C. Opgood
Gates
Osgood
Beaman
New York
Fuel and Iron Company
Steel Trust
FLOWER AND TREE IN GARDEN NOTES
Gardening tips cover Balphlossia as a pretty hardy annual, birch trees reaching far north, Siberian larch and fir. Discusses bean blossom dark spot, transplanting sunflowers on rainy days, maintaining a green lawn center, and planting mignonette. Encourages roses when frost ends.
Students at State Normal School Adopt Resolutions of Thanks
Anonymous resolutions from the Summer School of Methods session praise Prof Branson and assistants, thank the matron Mrs Reaves and Mrs Lane, pledge scholarships for absent students, and bless the institution. The document notes the Athens Daily Banner publication and lists committee members Carswell Bates Calloway.
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State Normal School
Branson
Athens Daily Banner
John ¥. Carswell
Mattie B. Bates
Emily Callaway
Georgia State Normal School
Dearing Set to Open New Menswear Store Sept. 1
F H Dearing has leased the former Matthews store and will open a line of gentlemen's clothing and furnishings on September 1. The building contract was completed yesterday and Dearing plans rapid setup for the new business. He is expected to offer stylish, high quality attire and is anticipated to succeed.
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F. H. Dearing
R, Ek, Matthews
Dearjog
Splendid schedule for the post office Athens
Beginning today all local mail will be made up in the Athens postoffice for the early morning trains. A clerk will be at the postoffice nightly until 11:30 to ensure prompt dispatch of Athens mail. Postmaster Fleming notes several recent postal improvements appreciated by the city.
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Hall
F. J, Cheney & CO
Toledo
Droggista
Athens
Fleming
Oconee Council Hosts Royal Arcanum Meeting
Oconee Council No 188 Royal Arcanum gathered at the Masonic hall with over a hundred members. Grand Regent for Georgia W H Baffold of Bwainboro spoke to the city, as Col H S West and Dr S C Bennedict addressed social features and past and future work of the order. Refreshments followed the program.
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Occnse Conneil
Royal Arcanum
Masonic Hall
Georgia
W. H. Baffold
Bwainboro
W. ¥. Dorsey
H. 8. Weat
C. Bennedict
T. W. Reed
Former Governor Jarvis Injured in Carriage Accident
Former Governor Thomas J. Jarvis, ex-minister to Brasil, was thrown from his carriage while returning from a Confederate reunion on the Swananoa River near Asheville North Carolina on August 19. He sustained an ugly gash over his eye and was shaken but not seriously injured. the crash was blamed on the driver’s careless gees.
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Jarvis
Asheville
N. C
Swanannoa River
Brasil
Thomas J. Jarvis
Swarms
James Nudger
Ess
Murder of supervisor at Kokomo phosphate plant
William Bronson superintendent of the Cummer phosphate plant at Kokomo near Newberry was shot and killed by all the plant's negro workers early Sunday morning as he moved to quell a disturbance from a card game. He was shot from behind while approaching the quarters. The assassin escaped.
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Kokomo
Fla
Gainesville
William Bronson
Cummer Phosphate
Newberry
Mr. Bronson
Narrow Escape of Czars and Kaisers Aimed at One Death
August 18 dispatches recount a daring plot to assassinate the Russian czar and German Kaiser aboard the Kaiser’s yacht Hohenzollern. A Russian officer disguise boarded the Standart posing urgent czar messages, but was challenged and disarmed as the Standart’s captain appeared. Four conspirators fled by launch, while the leader confessed the aim to kill both emperors in one act.
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Londong
Raval
Hohenzollern
China to Hold Big Exhibit at St Louis Exposition
Viceroys Liu Kun Yi Chang Chih Tung and Yuan Shai Kai met with U S tariff commissioner T 8 Hare reta to discuss China’s need for a supreme effort to boost commerce with America and Europe and to pledge an unprecedented exhibit at the St Louis exposition as a sign of good faith amid U S policy.
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Shanghai
Liu Kun Yi
Chang Chih Tung
Yuan Shai Kai
Nan Kin
Hankow
Pe Chul
Harereta
Tarif
United States
China
America
Europe
St. Loula Exposition
Antarctic Expedition News From Buenos Ayres Cables
The Buenos Ayres correspondent reports further news on the Nordenkald Antarctic expedition. The crew, in good health, prepares to travel by dog sleds after being imprisoned by ice. Led by Professor Otto Nordenskjold, the party sailed from Gothenburg on October 16, 1901, and first learned of their status in Montevideo on April 13 of this year.
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Seco
Nordenakjold
Otto Nordenskjold
Baron Nordenskjom
Gothenburg
Sweden
Montevideo
Uruguay
Snowkl
Louis Philippeland
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