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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1906
Page
8
The cotton market advanced after opening, driven by forecasts of another cold wave and heavier frost damage. Port receipts stood at 55,000 vs 44,716 last year, with estimates for tomorrow showing Houston 18,500 to 19,600 and Galveston 23,000 to 25,000.
L H Sibert of Carolina sues Seaboard Air Line for twenty thousand dollars after being fined five dollars and removed from an excursion train returning from Atlanta to Clinton. He argues the railroad had no right to eject him.
Community notes urge participation in the October 19 exhibition night with promises of a welcome by the club secretary and a surprise for women. A clipping honors Miss Harbin of Athens as the new society editor of the Athens Evening Call, and Miss May Harbin’s prize-winning student career is highlighted. Domestic Science lectures begin in October at the State Normal School with invitations to Athens ladies. Miss Lane at the YWCA will discuss the Sunday school lesson. the Ladies Auxiliary YMC meets this afternoon. Miss Stella Tate plans to present the battleship Georgia with a loving cup in December, recalling her earlier christening of the ship.
The piece notes higher cotton prices despite costs and labor shortages, urging farmers to wait for fair prices. It then argues Southern perspectives on the race question, defending white supremacy while urging calm discussion and predicting eventual race adjustment led by white Americans. It condemns Northern writers and defends Jim Crow on Southern railways.
A reader from Port William Ohio praises Dr King’s New Discovery for curing a two year cough and suspected consumption. The note claims three bottles stopped the cough and cured chest illness. Druggists H R Palmer & Sons and W J Smith & Bro guarantee the remedy at six cents with a free trial bottle.
An advertisement for Morey’s Outlines of Ancient History priced at 1.60 by American Book Company notes with maps and portraits. The piece also laments over forty three thousand civil war pensioners dying last year and predicts the Republican party will oppose any cut in pension expenditures, ending with a remark on fine printing The Banner Leeds.
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