The Athens Banner Highlights Local News and National Talks
The Athens Banner reports farmer statistics from Mr. Holmes showing per capita production by region, notes a sermon and licensing debate in Marshalltown Iowa, and discusses New York department store licensing ideas. It covers Georgia journalist Montgomery M. Folsom’s death and fire safety notes for State Normal School and Rock College. The piece surveys U S manufacturing growth and southern industrial progress.
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George K. Holmes
Department of Agriculture
Industrial Commission
South
Holmes
South Atlantic States
South Central States
North Central States
North Atlantic States
Western States
State Normal School
Rock College
City
State Normal School Commission
Hood's Sarsaparilla Ad Claims Miraculous Health Fix
A vintage testimonial touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a faultless blood purifier that preserves fever, kidneys, bowels and blood health. Mrs Keaia Westbrook of Cheboygan Michigan reports sores on her limb healed after taking the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Keaia Westbrook
Cheboygan, Mich
Hoods
HOME CURE: FOR BLOOD POISON DOCUMENT
An 19th century mock advertisement claims Swift's Specific S S S cures contagious blood poison by purging the system with no doctors’ help. It quotes a Newark, New Jersey claimant who says self treatment at home cured him after spending money on doctors. The piece criticizes physicians and promotes home remedies and public notices about celebrating the Fourth of July and imperialist policy debates.
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H. L. Myers
Mulberry St
Newark
N. J
Siete Coen
Swifts
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Northern and Southern universities and gift disparities
The Savannah News contrasts generous donations to northern institutions like Harvard Yale and Princeton with tight means in southern colleges. It notes Harvard’s annual cash gifts of about 1.25 million and contemplates future changes in Southern educational funding and leadership.
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Standford University of California
Chicago University
Treasuries
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Eliot
South
Savannah News
Struck by a Train Near Tennille Ga
An old man about seventy five was struck by an engine drawing an extra freight train on the Central railroad near Tennille about 8 PM and thrown from the tracks. The physician says he cannot recover. The crew is not blamed and Central road officials are aiding the dying man.
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Tennille
Central Railroad
Central
Burdette
Central Road
Bessie Mell Industrial Home reports July meeting and relief needs
The Bessie Mell Industrial Home held its July meeting with strong attendance. Committees noted sickness in East Athens and urged rapid relief contributions of sheets pillow cases medicines soups and ice. Reports show June receipts and expenditures and a plan to establish a cooking school with community aid.
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Bessie Mell Industrial Home
Athens
Davison
Prince Avenue
Rutherford
Milledge Avenue
Gertrude Thomas
M. Rutherford
Bessie Mell
Wouldn't Wear the Crown on Laureateship Views
William Morris's views on the poet laureateship are described as peculiar and interesting in Mackall's biography. Gladstone offered Morris Tennyson's succession, but Morris declined, saying the laureate should be a ceremonial writer of verse. He praised Marquis of Lorne as best suited for the role.
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William Morris
Mackall
Gladstone
Morris
Tennyson
Marquis of
Lorne
Vittoria
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Lessee
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H. J. Rowe
Lesses and Business Mgr
Marshalltown
Ministerial Union
Municipal Council of
New York
Maclaren
New York Journal of Commerce
Ian Maclaren
Journal of Commerce
James Bryce
Bryce
England
Montgomery
Polson
Georgia
Montgomery M. Folson
National Bank
United States
Department of Commerce
Mason
Berlin
State Department
Washington
Germany
France
Southern Cotton Mills
Roosevelt
Washington Post
Ind
Saye
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Ma‘Clellan
Hancock
Santiago
Union
Massachusetts
Post
Minneapolis Tribune
Northwest
Atlanta Journal
Philippines
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Congress
Kaa al
Italy
Cent Regine
Davis & Lawrence CO
Lim
Prop
Percy Davies
Paim-Kuntsa
Gale AY
Castoria
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What Is
Cening Castoria
AndGt Haldi
Winterville
Mathews & Noell
W. Vincent Arnold
Big Creek
J. C. Hutchins
Fire Insurance
H. A. Lipscomb
Talmadge Bros. & Co
John L. Arnold
East Clayton Street
A. R. Robertson
Robertson
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