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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1892
Page
2
A mixed clipping blends a heartfelt elegy for Lester Jagger with two fiction excerpts. The first laments loss, honoring a brave life and offering solace to grieving parents. The second follows Miss Fosdick and Mr Poplin in a store drama ending with a playful pledge of care. A banknote edge essay and a poem conclude the page’s varied content.
A ruined joan runaway letter invites a recluse to Murrey near Winton to lease Thorpe manor. The house hides a living ghost, a trapped beauty who guides the narrator to a secret chamber and shares a tragic past. He helps her return to society and declares love as the ghost lingers no more.
Miss Fosdick begins work under Mr Hipple who demands verbatim dictation and flawless accuracy. She impresses at first, but when Hipple’s advances cross professional lines she writes a letter with offhand remarks, triggering conflict and moral risk within Poplin & Son.
In a Boston Chapman parlor Jingleberry awaits a marriage proposal to Marian Chapman. He rides a comic wave of misread signals and nerves, then notices Marian’s reflection vanishing from sight and a baffling mirrored scene where his own back faces him, hinting at a strange unseen presence in the room.
In a Chicago Post piece, Jingleberry encounters a life like mirror Marian, watching a mirrored proposal and a dramatic refusal. The swapped reality unsettles him, then real Marian appears, explains mirrors reverse and the headache vanishes as the moment ends. A fragment of a longer fiction is followed by a classified ad for a livery business in Athens Georgia.
A nugget of pure silver valued at five dollars was found on the Chauncey farm near Athens along the Jug Tavern road. A passerby detected the bright heavy rock and identified it as silver. Negotiations to buy the property follow, hinting at local silver production.
Report states MR HERRING fired and killed Sidney J Adkins in an incident described by witnesses and authorities as a fatal shooting. The event prompted police investigation at the scene with no immediate charges reported. The article notes names involved and seeks additional details.
In Surmonia Nov 5 a fatal shooting occurred as M B Herring, a local farmer, killed Sidney J Adkins a guard at Oglethorpe branch penitentiary after allegations of seducing Herring's daughter. Herring surrendered to authorities and the coroner's inquest is set for tomorrow.
A short piece extols a woman friend as a wise counselor who weighs all sides and protects a man's honor. It notes one pretended friend who abides by what she wills and what she won’t. The writer directs readers to Skiff the jeweler for jewelry needs and to inquire about the city clock.
Editor T. L. Gantt of the Columbia Register returned home to vote for Grover Cleveland and Stevenson. He predicts Cleveland will win New York by fifty thousand, secure 302 electoral votes, and says Tom Watson faces defeat in the Tenth district. He anticipates a visit to Athens by Gov Tillman Sen Irby and Rep McLaurin before Christmas.
An Athens fisherman recounts sighting a thirty foot tall tree near the Oconee river bearing white flowers with a strange odor. Birds feeding on the flowers allegedly faint, lie motionless, then revive and fly away. He claims the tree attracts many birds and invites a visit six to seven miles upstream.
A merchant lauds Athens small industries as key to local growth. He cites a pants factory employing widows and argues local production can beat imports, urging continued momentum to attract skilled workers and boost shipments locally. Also warns against counterfeit products and urges buyer vigilance.
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