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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
4
The Athens Banner and The Athens Daily offer mail delivery and rates. Annual subscriptions cost $5.00, six months $2.50, three months $1.25, or 10 cents weekly. The Weekly or Sunday Banner is $1.00 per year or 50 cents for six months, always cash in advance. Remittances may be sent by express, post office money order, or registered letter.
The piece defends Judge Adamson after critics accuse him of upsetting party unity with a Democratic speech in Warm Springs. It also condemns Hoke Smith for a harsh Athens speech attacking the party and private citizens, labeling his actions as demagogic and misleading toward voters.
Hon William H H Fleming of Augusta spoke to the University of Georgia Alumni Society on slavery and the race problem. He defended the fifteenth amendment, urged lawful measures for disfranchisement, and argued the grandfather clause was constitutional. He warned against negro domination and noted white population growth outpacing the black population.
The Tanter lauds University of Georgia choices naming David C. Barrow as chancellor and Charles M. Snelling as Franklin College dean. The piece critiques James K. Hines and others joining the democratic primary for Hoke Smith, lampooning recent shifts and urging cautious reengagement with party leadership.
Reader notes recall of voting patterns in a recent primary. The speaker questions whether residents voted for certain candidates, mentions forgotten details, and muses that historical reforms could mock the current reformers.
Dr. J Newton Hathaway of Atlanta GA offers free complete medical books on urinary tract diseases manliness vigor health varicocele stricture health specific blood poison throat and lung diseases women’s diseases skin rectal rheumatism nerves exhaustion and more. Write for one or more volumes at no charge and receive confidential advice based on over twenty five years of experience.
Yesterday afternoon at the chapel UM department representatives from Athens spoke including Me oC Treh more of the Law School and Mr. Guy Bernard of the Medical College. The program listed music prayer and six speakers on topics from The Greater University to The South and American Literature and Te Twentieth Century Medicine. It notes Chamberlain's cough remedy as a cold treatment and lists local druggists. Chancellor Barrow is described as wearing grace in his new office.
Athens editorials and statements reveal Judge Hamilton McWhorter rebutting Hoke Smith's accusations. He details his eleven years representing the Southern Railway before courts and commissions and denies improper influence in gubernatorial elections. He recalls a 1904 letter exchange with Smith and asserts his loyalty to clients and friends.
A London Mall report describes a staged twenty two up billiard match inside a lion's cage at Stoke Hippodrome. Two local players faced roars from lions controlled by a lady trainer as the animals roamed the cage, frightening a player and prompting retreat amid cheers.
An alarm arises from neglected bowels and torpid liver causing chronic constipation. Dr King s New Life Pills are promoted as gentle regulators of stomach and bowels. Guaranteed by W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Sone Drugists. Price 26 cents.
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