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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
3
A long campaign address outlines Democratic positions on tax equity, public utilities, and state governance. It advocates equalizing tax burdens, preserving public rights, and funding Confederate pensions, criticizing centralized control while urging practical fiscal policy and worker welfare. The text cites Georgia matters, labor views, and constitutional considerations.
Joseph M. L. Browns delivers a detailed acceptance speech at Marietta, Georgia, outlining party platform on equal protection for all capital and property, condemning agitation against corporations, urging unity, and pledging to serve the people without favoritism while stressing constitutional protections and fiscal restraint.
Avlanta, Ga, July 1. The Georgia wine industry faces abrupt end under a state prohibition law. Vineyards must dispose of grapes as harvested or convert them to non alcoholic juice products. Owners seek methods to preserve unfermented grape juice for sale to soda fountains and medical uses, anticipating a new Georgian industry born of protection.
Mrs. E. R. Pierson of Auburn Centre says Dr. King's New Discovery heals long standing threat and lung troubles where other treatments failed. The remedy, a renowned cough and cold healer, is sold by W. J. Smith & Bro H. R. Palmer & Song drug stores at 50 cents and one dollar. A free bottle is offered.
E C Guthman, partner in Guthman Steam Laundry, killed himself with a pen knife in his Farr and South Pryor room. He slashed his abdomen and chest about forty times, possibly due to grief over his mother's recent death and bad health. He was 42, unmarried.
A waiter from Atlanta Cafe complains to Judge C H Brand about unpaid wages after laborers’ strikes at Red and Black Cafe and Atlanta Cafe. The letter asks for protection and payment of 75 dollars earned over two and a half months, describing dire financial need and seeking judicial action.
Travel advice urges taking a vacation and exploring woods fields and seashore while carrying Thamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Warns it may be unavailable on trains or ships and mentions vendors H Banlmer & Sons W J Smith Orr Drug Co. etc.
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine arrive in St Paul for the Imperial Council meeting with open headquarters at the Ryan Hotel. Officials plan receptions parades and exhibitions Tuesday through the week, with entertainment laid on Sunday and Monday for visitors and many hotels display Shriner emblems.
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