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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1899
Page
8
A fragmentary ad list shows small home items including yard wide textiles and 123 cent checks. The text mentions white goods approximate prices and different product lines though details are partly garbled.
A dense sale notice outlines lots of Sailors hats, straw styles, satin straw, and 360 straw hats priced at 75c to 1.00. men undershirts, shirts, socks, balbriggans, bicycle suits, and spring suits with bulk quantities. Ladies footwear includes satin slippers, white duck, oxford styles, and fine Dongola options with varied old prices and barter at auction.
Fort McPherson gains Colonel Gilbert S. Carpenter as Lieutenant Colonel William K. Daugherty and Captain Smith receive promotions after Colonel David D. Van Valzah retires due to disability from Philippine service. Carpenter moves from Seventh Infantry to command at Fort McPherson.
Dr. Charles A. McQuestian, former Otis staffer and Manila health officer, returns home ill. He argues 100000 to 150000 troops are required to subdue and hold the Philippines, criticizes the peace commission as a failure, and warns the rainy season could force abandonment unless vastly more troops arrive. He praises American soldiers but cites climate as a major hurdle.
The Alabama district United Mine Workers adopted a wage scale fixing coal mining at 45 cents per ton and No 1 foundry pig at 7.60 per ton with subsequent iron price links. The convention aims to sign contracts with operators and resists exporting colored labor to Kansas and other states amid rising migration.
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