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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1891
Page
8
A religious piece argues rest comes from changing thought toward service to others. It cites prayer, self-subordination, and adopting Jesus's yoke to find inner peace, warning against ambition vanity envy and egotism as restless roots.
The Woman's Department shares recipes and tips for summer dining with desserts and ices. Included are Sulapa Roll, lemon sherbet with cream, blackberry ice, strawberry ice with whipped cream, rose hue ice, delicate jelly flavors, and housekeeper notes for making large quantities of ice cream.
Washington July 23 Dr Antonio Flores president of Ecuador acts to celebrate his birth with clemency while labor unrest loomed in Vroxssura Miss and a labor trouble was threatened in the area.
The late Canon Lidder spoke on the worth of the Old Testament in St Pauls, urging readers to weigh what books and thoughts truly claim attention as life nears its end. He urged devotion to the Bible and to living each moment as if the Master is listening.
The Clarke County agricultural society invites all farmers and allies to a convocation in Athens on August 12. A banquet will feature fruit baskets and melons arranged by the Athens and Clarke County ladies. Contributions are sought from merchants and Clarke County residents.
A fragmentary historical piece reflects on African music's influence from ancient Ethiopia to slave songs, minstrel imagery, and regional contrasts in the American South. It notes the emotional power of black music, the role of slave musicians, and the endurance of these melodies amid hardship.
A Banner reporter questions Branson on a bill to ban war terms in Southern school histories and notes critics from both North and South. Branson urges careful, book-by-book critique to fix the record, while Branson and Swinton highlight omissions of Stonewall Jackson and Ben Hill. The discussion moves to other historians like Eggleston and Montgomery, with references to canonicus and toombs, and ends with calls for a comparative study of all forty histories.
The Lazy Man visits New York with Dilworth Choate of the New York World. He views police headquarters, urban wreckage, opium dens, and bars, contrasts with Athens, and notes immigrant districts and crime while praising New York police and pondering reform.
Boston capitalists proposed a city on the Lincoln boyhood site in Spencer county near Lincoln cabin. They sold 500 acres including the cabin ground and graves, but sickness halted growth and few jobs kept residents away. The town declined then and now sits at a railroad junction with little commerce.
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