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Newspaper

Athens Weekly Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jun 23, 1891

Page

6

Athens Weekly Banner highlights Alliance rally and local notices

The Athens Weekly Banner reports on the Alliance rally set for July 16 in Athens with farmers from Northeast Georgia expected. It notes Athens as supportive to tillers of the soil and promises a royal ovation, while also detailing local items about editors in Atlanta and safety notes from Piedmont fire tragedy reports.

Ceorcia Georgia Press Atlanta Georgia Chicago Alliance Athens

Notable Athens chapel speeches and gifts reshape plans

Editor Pleasant A. Stovall and Col. Livingston headline a slate of university and local orations. Rev Dr A J Battle and Rev W H McMeen are noted for sermons and calls, while a large donation from Mr Prince Hodgson funds a new tent for Culpepper and Williams with services scheduled at the church and tent tonight and tomorrow.

Shorter College Hariipay W. T. Halliday Opus Mercer University Trox Bankston Hammond N. J. Hammond McMeen W. H. McMeen Presbyterian Church Covington Meridian Miss Paumer Benj. M. Palmer Gulpepper ER. R. Hodgson Prince Hodgson Messrs Culpepper Williams Athens Culpepper and

The Contract Let for Toomer Hotel Project

The contract for the new hotel project by J B Toomer has been officially awarded. Plans call for a handsome structure rising in the business district, with completion expected within the year.

Toomer to Expand Athens Hotel Into Four Story Addition

Mr. Toomer plans a six thousand dollar expansion to create a four story wing extending to Clayton and Jackson streets. The project adds a store, four offices, a large dining hall, twenty two extra bedrooms, and a slate Mansard roof. Construction starts in August with completion by January 1, 1892, under penalty of forfeiture.

J.B. Toomer Athens Bloomer Clayton Street Jackson Street Clayton and Jackson Streets Southern Mutual Insurance Toomer

Death of Dr Thos D Hutcheson in Winterville

Winterville Ga June 17 Special One by one our older citizens pass away This morning at four oclock Dr Thos D Hutcheson breathed his last The community honors his noble character and offers sympathy to his family Also notes on student achievements of Winterville boys and the formal transfer of a Negro college to University trustees with Savannah slated as its main site in October and summer work to continue locally

Winterville Thos. D. Hutcheson Messrs Hutcheson and Shipp Oxford Chas. Harris The Technological M. A. Hitchcock University Negro College Savannah

Meeting for State Society of Scotch-Irishmen Formed

At the Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta a morning session organized a State Society of Scotch-Irishmen. Colonel Bob McWhorter elected president. few outsiders attended, but statewide interest shown. Governor Northen visited from Athens and planned to depart for Tifton.

Gate City Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Bob McWhorter U. S Northen Athens Tifton

Random condensed dispatches from a crowded news page

The bulk of reports cover diverse events from labor strikes in Philadelphia to deaths by accident in Missouri and Kentucky, a hospital mine collapse in Cumberland, a World’s Fair site decision, a fatal child beating case, and a Nashville suicide. Also noted are railroad suits, a bear pit accident, and a large National Chautauqua opening near Glen Echo.

House Seville Sekefield Philadelphia Castelnuevo Peschiera Senna Compagna Desvizano Charles Gordon Hartman Iines Wellingto John Goff William Atc Jackson Park Lake Front Brown Nashville Charleston D._C Willie Jones Tennessee Insurance Company Kerran Merriam Park Kansas City A. Blanchard Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Le-Mo Tein Hoffman Cumberland Jacob Legeer John John Murray Crus Murray Foster Revenue Corwin Soxiargto Great Britain North Middlesex Aver Mass Spaulding

Brown's Iron Bitters and Commencement Attendance Note

For Malaria Liver Trouble or Indigestion use Brown's Iron Bitters. Attendance upon the University chapel exercises at Commencement drew comments after the events. The exercises were satisfactory, but the building should have been filled with people each day.

University

Notable Women in Arts and Education Rise in 19th Century

A survey highlights Julia Ward Howe as a leading poet and advocate for higher women’s education. It notes her family ties, Newport summers, long presidency of a women’s club, and her husband Dr Edward Howe’s fame as an educator of the blind. Also covered is two Pennsylvanian sisters who preempted 160 acres in Nebraska, built success from work near a railroad, and then a windmill powered farm. plus comments on women’s clothing and janitorial roles in girls’ schools and the emergence of women lawyers in Washington state and New York University’s push for women’s legal education.

Julia Ward Howe Howe Laura Bridgman Beacon Street Maude Howe Elliott Newport Chicago Inter Ocean Pennsylvania Neb Zach Nebraska Ella Dietz Clymer Sorosis Federation of Women’s Club Ing Chicago Clymer Mary A. Latham Sookase Falla Washington State Soram University of New York

Dr Holt's Dyspeptic Elixir Promises Quick Cure

An old advertisement touts Dr Holt's Dyspeptic Elixir as a remedy for fullness in the stomach nausea vomiting acidity flatulence dull head pain heaviness giddiness bowel irregularity low spirits restless skin and heart palpitations. It claims a single bottle will convince and notes manufacture by Dr Holt's Dyspeptic Elixir Co Montezuma Georgia with two for price.

Dr. Holt Dr. Holt’s Montezuma, Ga

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