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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1891
Page
1
Editorial reflections urge practical remedies for farming debt and policy, urging farmers to abandon impractical schemes. It advocates strict sopomics and law reforms, while urging readers to ponder great questions and seek tangible progress through prudent action.
Avausta Georgia February 26 1891 a letter from M Mitchell promotes a Piedmont Construction Company meeting in Athens to organize directors and discuss a railroad from the Tennessee line to the Savannah river promising benefits to Athens and Macon as a direct coal field route and sea access. The notice urges delegates to attend and supports strong leadership. Also notes remedies for lung troubles including Mullin and Taylor’s Cherokee Remedy.
Lexington embraces new life from the Lexington Terminal and the Lexington Blue Granite Company. The granite quarry, on a 500 acre site near Gov. Gilmer’s home, employs crews moving immense stones for rail projects. Local officials, merchants, and the Meson Academy reflect growth with new buildings, presses, and a bustling main street as Dr. R. J. Arnold settles in as physician and local firms expand commerce.
An editorial style passage emphasizes the binding, necessary, proper, and inevitable nature of being born again, with religious reflections on salvation and divine mandates. It connects this creed to a call for personal renewal and fealty to gospel authority. The piece blends sermon-like prose with anecdotes of everyday piety and gratitude.
In Athens and Lexington, Mrs Knox notes steady sales to town and country customers. Mr Cooper, Lexington dealer for three years, reports a thriving grocery and drug trade. Maxwell Bros. run a full line of groceries and own a livery stable, dealing in stock with over a hundred head sold since December.
The Georgia Teachers Association plans a Brunswick meeting with rail rate concessions. One fare round trip from Southern Passenger lines valid April 26 to May 1 1892. Central Railroad of Georgia serves coupon stations only. An educational exhibit and steamer excursions are planned.
A narrative contrasts "good enough" with perfection in shop and life as a carpenter pressures neat planing and a merchant rejects sloppiness. It urges eliminating careless habits, reinforcing the adage that what is worth doing is worth doing well, followed by brief ads for Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup and Salvation Oil as remedies.
Civil engineer Robert E Peary of the US Navy secures eighteen months leave to attempt a private North Pole overland trek starting from St Johns next May He aims to reach latitude higher than 23 deg 22 min with minimal baggage and a small accompanying party to a distant Vale Sound area in Greenland.
In Deviance Ohio on February 25 a mob killed J H Mull, janitor at the Central building, after he accused Superintendent Butler of intimacy with three teachers. Officials fear retaliatory violence as Wyatt remains missing and rumors spread of further attacks. The town enacts extra police and guards as citizens flee the streets.
The arrival of 617 Jewish families banished from Novo Gorod is reported with 94 banishments from surrounding rural areas. The Kaplan family reliefs a grim tale of anti Jewish laws and death of a merchant family whose body, and that of five children, were found in their home. Russian exiles’ properties are bought up cheaply by Russian speculators.
Flooding in Tia Juana, San Diego reports multiple deaths including a drowning helper and a druggist swept from his store. The town’s buildings are largely wrecked, with the Russ house remaining partially intact. Main current of the Juans river cuts through the area as fencing cattle hogs and horses perish. Damage estimates unavailable due to ongoing reports from the Mexican side.
Supreme Court general term reverses Grover Cleveland's referee ruling in Langdon and Astor family suits against New York City over North River warfare rights. Case has lingered years through multiple legal questions and now heads to rehearing.
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