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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1901
Page
4
The notice lists subscription pricing and mailing details for Athens weekly, including carrier delivery options in city limits and annual rates, with payment methods by money order or registered mail. It notes local notices charged per line and special spray rates for extended runs, signed by the Business Manager.
A Harper's Weekly essay defines pleasure as found in victory and in enduring reverses. It argues the deepest satisfaction comes from personal growth through adversity, thrift, and self-dependence. Those who fear loss and seek gains alone lack true social value, while usefulness and personal effort offer genuine pleasure.
The Georgia penitentiary is in splendid condition says a legislative committee report. They credit the felony management act for wise framing and just execution, noting economical land use, humane treatment, and proper punishment. Praise goes to the prison commission chair, assistants, physicians, captains, and guards.
The text argues the United States may need to act if Germany seizes Venezuela ports and withholds customs receipts, risking a clash that tests the Monroe doctrine while a strong American naval presence in Caribbean waters signals support for the doctrine.
A German paper, the Bertin Kreus Zeiting, ponders the likelihood of American intervention in South Africa and argues President Roosevelt is not in harmony with such action. The article reflects early 20th century international tensions and editorial speculation on U.S. foreign policy.
The article argues Americans should recall 1788 unity and acknowledge moral duties to intervene in South Africa. It notes McKinley’s mediation offer to Britain was rejected, questions if Germany has equal obligations, and highlights ties between Boers and Germany making intervention plausible for Germany and Holland.
Editor Bachke’s absence prompts H L Howe to run the Galena Times. The paper vows to stay daily only if self supporting, outlining cost cutting and self service measures, then contemplates a weekly if unsustainable. The note mocks “The Wonderful Joy That Jak Built” as a civic misadventure a hundred miles from home.
Dispatches from Washington and the Pacific Coast describe diverging Philippine news. One cites the annual report of the Philippine Commission claiming peace in five provinces Batangas Osbu Bahel Samar Mindoro, while Manila fears rising unrest with artillery deployed in unprotected city areas and fortifications at Fort Santiago and the river front.
President Roosevelt rebukes Miles for praising Schley and calls for Maclay's resignation to dismiss factional dissent. Rumors say he may press Secretary Long to leave naval affairs and target Crowninshield as part of a broader effort to end the controversy in Rooseveltian style.
The State Normal school will add Prof Alexander Rhodes to head the Geography department with Miss Newton shifting to History. Rhodes, a North Carolina A and M College horticulture assistant and Albemarle County Virginia native, has served at S and M since 1890 and will begin mid January amid a welcome in Athens.
An advertisement-style notice describes chronic fatigue and weakness and promotes Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a tonic to vitalize the blood and restore vigor. It claims the product renews all organs and functions and notes a price in cents.
A Sunday early morning wreck at the Georgia depot near the passenger coachs rear where a freight train lost braking and plunged into the passenger car. Fireman Daniel Fuller was pinned between engine and tender but escaped serious injury as several platforms were damaged and trains resumed on schedule. Also a long advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Care and Hall's Family Pills claims internal remedies can cure catarrh.
A gentleman on Jackson Street, not tied to the Banner, received a pint of rye as a Christmas gift yesterday. He later found only his coat in a bundle he retrieved from the pressing rooms, while the vest remained unwrapped. He cannot explain the missing vest, though friends offer explanations.
Dr W A Mallory announces he quits magnetic healer duties in Albert Lea after months in the city. He accepts a position with the Sentinel prohibition organ, taking an office in Lampkin building on Lampkin Street. A sample Dream Balm from Ely Bros is offered with testimonials from S K Lanadals praising its sleep relief and head clarity.
Gov. Candler will call a depot commission meeting in the capitol on January 6 1902 to discuss damages from Pryor Street closures and terms of the bill with railroads. The commission includes Gress Holder Ferris Dann Knowles Egleston and others. work aims to begin soon with station completion anticipated by 1908. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised at end.
Announcement of a winter agriculture course at the University of Georgia invites Athens residents to offer board or lodging, or both, by sending accommodation details and rates to Chancellor Hill. The notice notes expected strong attendance and a successful program. Also contains a testimonial praising Kodol Dyspepsia Cure from H O Chrestenson of Hayfield Minn and mentions sellers H R Palmer & Sons and Warren J Smith & Bro.
The Banner reports a hat theft where a Negro man took bundles and carried off Mr W F Dorsey s hat while he covered his story. Dorsey lacked identification for the culprit and scrambled to replace his headwear, noting hats can disappear in various ways including being blown from car windows.
Tickets will be sold daily from Athens, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina for the Exposition period. Return options include June 4 with ten and two tenth cents fare, or ten days after sale, and a Tuesday Thursday sale at five dollars and sixty cents, through Seaboard Air Line Railway agents J. M. Hoke and W. Be Christian in Atlanta and Athens.
A large blaze in Huntsville Alabama yesterday morning caused $40000 in damage across ten stores in Commercial Row. Fireman Haden Cochran died from injuries after the wall collapsed burying him. fellow fireman John Colburn survived with nonfatal injuries. Losses include Alabama Feed Company and several shops. insured up to $35000.
Goodwater Alabama suffers a second major blaze in days as six business houses burn, estimated losses surpass 40000 dollars. A beer market adjoining a barroom ignited the flames, wind from the east kept the fire from crossing the street, and dry goods and groceries were moved but damaged.
Montgomery on December 23. Governor pardons Fannie Bryant, the mulatto woman jailed as Dick Hawes’ accomplice. The pardon follows recommendations from Mrs. S. B. Trapp and support from Birmingham attorneys and Judge Greene, citing no trial evidence of guilt. Bryant served 12 years. Thames fog halts traffic. frost claims lives along exposed coasts. People’s Bank of Evergreen chartered with $60,000 capital. Admiral Schlay departs for New York for the holidays.
Reduced round trip tickets via Seaboard Air Line Railway offered for the Annual Convention of Southern Educational Association in Colombia South Carolina. Tickets available December 21 and 22 with a $200 membership fee.
In Columbia South Carolina on December 23 Mrs. John Phillips shielded herself and her child from a drunken husband. After he threatened to kill them and fired a gun, she used an ax as he approached with a gun, fatally wounding him. A coroner's inquest absolved her of blame.
A letter from Rocky Mount says a young girl is being held by a Negro woman there after a man left her behind. The girl, possibly Nellie Cropsey, will not reveal her name and fears the father of the man. Police chiefs in Rocky Mount and local investigators are on the case, with two citizens already visiting the city.
A feud between the Hogan and Dorman families erupts in a night battle six miles from Sanderson Florida. Joshua Hogan and Willie Dorman were killed, Andrew Nain and Thad Dorman wounded, and Lewis Hogan remains missing as authorities investigate the melee. In Jacksonville the rebuilding drive continues with 28 permits for permanent buildings last week and a total of 1,388 since the fire, including 138 for brick or stone structures.
A short recruitment notice from a mercantile agency seeks additional sales representatives in the southern region. It includes an address in Boulder Colorado and a caution notice restricting possum hunting on lands of Mrs A R Herring and Mrs Blackmon. Ellie M Blackmon is named in the text.
Lima Ohio faces an unprecedented fuel shortage with no coal available since last Wednesday and wood reaching ten dollars a carload. Thousands of residents walk miles to meet arriving wagons while railroads report many carloads awaiting removal between Lima and Cincinnati.
London reports the death of Sir Joseph Henry Dilbert a renowned chemist and former professor of rural economy at a university. He traveled to Canada and the United States in 1862 and 1694 to study agricultural development. BA
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