Athens Daily Banner highlights and politics in brief
Local Athens newspaper items note editor roles and business details, while summarizing notable political mentions. Includes discussion of Count Boni de Castellane, Anna Gould estate, fire insurance totals for 1899, Gorman's Bryan support, imperial war losses, and a Senate bill to create a Department of Commerce and Industries.
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Athens
New York
Boni de Castellano
Miss Gould
United States
Miss Anna
Bent
Labor, politics, and foreign commerce in late 19th century notes
The piece discusses labor with a possible political bid by Mayor Van Wyck, fish scales trading with France for artificial pearls, and a Georgia senatorial primary history. It reflects Democratic unity under Bryan, free coinage silver debates, and concerns about McKinley’s ties with Britain amid impending national issues.
Actions of the Just Smell Sweet but No Clear Event
An OCR fragment promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and vitality booster with testimonial style language. It mentions Mrs. J. L. Towanda of Towanda Pennsylvania and includes nonsensical trailing text, lacking a coherent event or date.
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Hood
Ron Parila
J. L. Towanda
Remedies for Scrofula and Boer War Commentary
An 1899- era article extols 8.8.8 as a cure for scrofula, urging readers to avoid tonics and trust Swift’s Specific. It then shifts to political notes, arguing the Democratic Party faces a hard fight against McKinley, with analysis of modern warfare, then a feature contrast of Churchill and Winston Churchill in the press and literature.
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H. E. Thompson
Milledgeville
Swift
Atlanta
Georgia
North
McKinley
Georgia peach crop seen as largest in years
Georgia will likely harvest 2000 to 2500 carloads of peaches this summer says State Entomologist Scott after inspecting orchards in Marshallville and south Georgia. He notes the recent hard freeze checked early growth, pushing trees back to normal timing and reducing risk from cold. Florida fared worse, while Georgia faces spring frosts as the main threat.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Scott
Marshallville
Cnn
South Georgia
Florida
Roberts at Paardeberg dispatch from Paardeberg dated Feb 7
Lord Roberts dispatch dated Paardeberg 7:05 p.m. Monday reports the Kimberley railroad opened and that General Methuen will move there with reinforcements and large supplies. Paardeberg lies about thirty miles east of Jacobedal.
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London
War Office
Lord Roberts
Paardeberg
Jacobedal
Kimberley
Honor Above Office A Remarkable Position by Hirsch
Washington Star lauds Solomon Hirsch of Portland as a man of real political courage in the 1880s Oregon deadlock. Hirsch, then senator and president of the Senate, refused to vote for himself in a 60 day tie, casting his support for John H. Mitchell in a compromise.
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Gorman
Bryan
Washington Post
Democratic Party
Organized Labor
van Wyck
New York
Cummings
The
Washington Star
Solomon Hirsch
Portland, Ore
United States Senate
Oregon
Hirsch
State Senate
Eersto
John H. Mitchell
United States
Large Boer Forces Headed to the Free State
Capetown dispatches report from Maseru that major Boer forces are being sent from the Transvaal to the Free State under noted generals. The Free State seeks to field an army to oppose the British at Koffyfontein. An official order mobilizes males aged sixteen to sixty, with enthusiasts urging all up to one hundred to join. Typhoid ravages Colesverg as Mafeking relief rumors circulate at Kemberley.
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Julian Ralph
London Daily Mail
Modder River
Lord Methuen
Mr. Ralph
Modder
Ralph
Capetown
Maseru
Transvaal
Free State
Koffyfontein
Colesverg
Kemberley
Mafeking
Populist Committee Meets at Lincoln in Conference
Lincoln Neb Feb 90 Delegates from Populist national committee arrive for talks as factions seek harmony Chairman Butler may gain power to call a joint convention with Democrats Texas Kentucky and Ohio urged independent action. governors meet in Washington to mark moving capitol. pension session blocked by Mr Talbert in the House with no quorum and adjournment.
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Butler
Lincoln
Neb
Texas
Kentucky
Ohio
Atlanta
Candler
Washington
National Capitol
Philadelphia
Talbert
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United States Naval Academy
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Richard Carvel
George Washington
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Lord Randolph Churchill
British Isles
Lord Kitchener
Nile Valley
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Roberts
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Aly
P.M
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Samuel C. Dunlap
Castoria
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Oliver Chilled
NEW Hardware Store
J. L. Arnold's
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