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Newspaper

Athens Weekly Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Oct 08, 1889

Page

5

Alliance day to feature stock and bagging show

The fair directors plan Alliance day on a Thursday in November with a live stock display and a novelty wedding ceremony. Couples will wed in Holy bonds on the fair grounds while dressed in cotton bagging fashion. Julius Cohen, a local merchant, offers fashion tips and a garment made from bagging if weather requires. Livingston will deliver an address and notable Alliance residents will participate in a round of bagging themed events.

Jolen P Julius Cohen Colcel Livingston Alancenan Te Eborgia Clarke County Cunty James M. Smith Benjamin B. Williams George Dudley Thomas John W. Hinton John R. Witte Rufus Jr. Reaves Georgia Foundry and Machine Works Woo Athens Georgia Alex Erwin Eorgta Larke County I. C. D. Vincent

Caterpillar Infestation Hurts Young Cotton Near Athens

Athens area reports caterpillars damaging young cotton plants causing withering and leaf loss. J. M. Smith reports spraying Paris green on his crops to reduce the infestation while others note widespread damage to new growth and stalled development in fields around Ovlethorpe.

Jhn AB. Pope Ovlethorpe Jas. M. Smith Guste Paris Green

Georgia Seed Company crowds out rivals with bargain price

A financial notice reports Georgia Seed Company offering twelve pounds to the White for $1 while other seed houses tout higher prices and tighter offers. A separate dispatch notes a Baltimore steamer loss with seven survivors after a September 5 sinking, with no fatalities reported yet.

Te Gorgia Seed Company Georgia Seed Company

Athens Cotten Exchange Market Summary Note

Market tone shows middling and strict low middling quotes with values around 9 5-16 to 9 7-16 for cotton futures. The report references daily price movement on the Athens exchange with brief parity notes and standard trading terminology from the period.

The Secretary Pantomime at the New York Savings Bank

A street sight on Fourteenth Street and Eighth Avenue features an improvisational one actor pantomime called The Secretary. An elderly bank official performs staged theft thwarted by steady guardianship, while spectators narrate his every motion from the windows. The act blends janitor duty, detective work, and dramatic suspense as the lone performer shifts roles before the crowd.

New York City Fourteenth Street Hamiets Ophelias Romeos Juliets Jeemses Bridgets Booth Medjesa Eighth Avenue New York Savings Ue Doorstep Spectator Fashior

I Love You Dearly Poem Fragment

A fragmented lyric expresses longing and conflicted affection as the speaker laments being passed by yet yearns for a kiss and declares love. The lines reveal tension between scorn and deep feeling, with repeated refrain of loving dearly despite doubt and heartbreak.

Tale of a Dead Man Astral Beliefs and Death Anxiety

An astral body believer recounts a man’s near disappearance into fear of death. He describes thinning health, sleepless nights, haunting visions, remorseful memories, and the eventual surrender to a peaceful, dreamlike end as the astral realm is invoked.

Lucifer Battlements Heaven Ee. Xene

Round the Earth in Four Hours in The Working and Management of an English Railway

An excerpt praising 19th century railway engineering notes that Northwestern Railway engines could circle the globe in four hours, covering 104 miles per minute. It claims near continuous operation year round, with reliability even when minor faults such as hot axles or a split pin occur, illustrating extraordinary mechanism and efficiency in railway practice.

Northwestern Railway Company George

Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Vouched For By Patients

In pulmonary affections the mucous membrane first inflames then accumulations form in air cells, tubercles develop, and tissue is destroyed. The medicine soothes the inflamed membrane and heals while arresting wasting. Testimonials from L D Bixby of Vermont and Alonzo P Daggett of Maine claim severe colds and lung trouble were cured after using Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.

Ayer L. D. Bixby Bartonsville Alonzo P. Daggett Smyrna Mills

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