19 Jul 1892
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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1892
Page
1
The Werkly Banner announces plans to become a broader news and family paper with local literary content. It invites readers and friends to contribute news and literary pieces for the enhanced format.
In Couer d Alene district Idaho General Carlin commands 1000 troops after the Mission massacre suspects arrest of Jack Wallace at Cataldo not travel allowed without military passport. Three carloads of union leaders and 25 members are taken into custody amid mass detentions as strikers press presence.
In Idaho four miles from Wallace miners return to Granite and other mines after a quiet spell. Delegations brought non union workers down from the Granite mine while authorities report confusion over a Fourth of July Creek death. A noted cure anecdote and a novel damage suit in Youngstown, plus farmers organizing threshing contracts, round out the day’s brief notices.
In New Orleans Fort Worth notice a frightful accident on the Cotton Belt road grave pit area. A work train was side tracked and workers slept beneath a car. a freight train later backed in and moved the scene.
A lyrical reminiscence about infatuation from youth. The speaker recalls sighing over a girl, blushing, stumbling over words, and wandering home with books to impress her. The tone is playful and nostalgic, framed as a memory from adolescence.
A life saving station captain recalls a missing crewman named Harry after a fierce southeast gale. The rescue attempt on Daming's island ends with Harry sacrificing himself to save others, signaling from the reef as the boat is launched. The crew retrieves him, but he is dead.
A Kipling poem fragment depicts Love and Death wounding each other in a tavern scene. Quiver and arrows spill on the ground as the fateful dawn reveals aims that harm both lovers and lives, leaving elders loving while youths die.
A doctor accepts a£1000 to attend a dying man who claims imminent death and a midnight summons. After a chilling night, the physician witnesses a ghastly apparition at the bed, the man dies, and a dramatic twist reveals the widow's fear and a missing third finger. The tale ends with the physician’s receipt of a thousand pounds and a warning note on ghosts.
Halcyon faces a delicate engagement crisis as Aunt Hal pushes a marriage to Judge Flostroy while a past love, Colonel Blesson, reenters from India with a photograph and a vow. The young woman weighs duty against desire as Blesson declares he would marry her, and the pair improvise a happy ending on the veranda.
A short, lyrical excerpt from Lucy Larcom in Boston Woman's Journal exalts pure hearts and holiness. It frames heaven as near and visible in ordinary beauty and spiritual discipline.
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