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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1907
Page
4
The Athens Banner lists carrier and mail rates including 9.00 per year 2.50 for six months 1.25 for three months and 16 cents a week The Weekly or Sunday Banner costs 1.00 per year 50 cents for six months Cash in advance required Remittances may be sent by express office money order or registered letter.
The Banner argues government rail ownership and tariff revision are central to the coming battle. It condemns Taft and the Republican stance on tariffs and notes the public's push against plutocracy as sign of changing sentiment.
A sprawling review notes calls for moral reform as Judge Landis targets Standard Oil looters and a wave of anti corruption measures. It cites President Hadley and President Wilson urging equal justice for rich and poor and previews Georgia’s chaotic 1900s session with new railroad regulation and looming constitutional questions.
The article argues that public opinion rejects officers shielding lawbreakers and demands even application of laws to all. It criticizes the Republican Party for past winking at law through powerful corporations like Standard Oil and notes a rising interest among some leaders in reform.
The article celebrates the approaching fall sessions of colleges nationwide and notes state legislators skeptical of their need, while the dominant view supports generous public funding, calling higher education an absolute necessity.
The rush closing of the legislature omitted several acts, notably failure to fund the state college of agriculture at fifty thousand dollars yearly from the fertilizer tax. The State Normal School received thirty thousand but requested fifteen thousand for a heating plant. both sums were cut, risking winter accommodations for Georgia’s young women and hampering the institutions’ work.
The speaker notes omissions in the current session and predicts the legislature will correct its mistake in the next session during the coming year. The comment emphasizes a perceived error and a forthcoming remedy.
The article catalogs unusual urban earnings from an old Long Island poet’s estate sale to odd jobs in New York. It cites firelight extinctions on Friday nights, baby renting for alms, accident notification for claim savings, and a range of peculiar trades including novelty doctors, shopping guides, and professional playmasters for wealthy children.
In New York on August 20 the Illinois Central’s John M. Daley testified before Judge Montgomery about railroad transportation costs for North Carolina rate cases. He cited competition and volume of business as key rate factors, noting no long hauls in the state and listing costs from cars to crews, coal, repairs, and taxes.
The hearing cites percentages and profit estimates for Southern railway and other lines. Witnesses say interstate traffic dominates, while local handling costs are higher. The Mobile and Ohio official notes local freight costs exceed other operations. The inquiry will resume tomorrow.
Savannah, August 20. Locker clubs are being discussed and saloonmen may start organizing them. A $500 tax on liquor lockers enables these clubs, whereas a $10,000 tax would have blocked them. The city council may pass a similar tax ordinance. Mayor Tiedeman backs fines of 50 dollars for blind tiger keepers to fund city revenue.
In a Chicago Tribune item a man named Mr Kybosh seeks a late monthly issue and witnesses a young man withdraw his arm from a chair near Mies Kitty. The moment prompts Kybosh to recall his own youth and a hush falls in the parlor.
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