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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1905
Page
4
The Athens Banner lists subscription prices including five dollars per year and ten cents a week, notes cash in advance, and accepts express money orders or registered letters. A humorous aside about Dr Beebee of Chicago defends kissing consumptives as sometimes healthy, likening germs to worms and praising sunshine and sentiment.
The Indianapolis News reports a growing Jim Crow movement in Indianapolis with a committee a club enrollment and a voter tracking scheme aimed at Black residents. The piece argues such trends label Negroes as a class and pressure them to back the Bookwalter ticket.
The investigations into major New York life insurance firms reveal misused policyholder funds and lavish spending on Republican campaigns and salaries. Despite controversy, the piece argues life insurance remains essential for the poor and middle class and urges purification and reform rather than a collapse of the industry.
Comptroller General William A. Wright, Georgia insurance commissioner, says New York Life is solvent and meets state insurance laws. He rejects calls for a blanket attack on insurers, favoring reforms to fix only the bad features and preserve useful companies. The Banner agrees, urging targeted action over wholesale condemnation.
A critique argues government ownership of railroads harms democracy and governance. Citing W J Sowden in the New York Herald, it notes Australia’s experience where politics dominates public utilities, rates rise, and personnel enjoy life posts, undermining service and discipline.
A Birmingham Age-Herald critique calls for southern representation in U.S. cabinets, arguing the Civil War did not erase southern public virtue. It credits Roosevelt and Cleveland-era cabinets and urges an impartial national direction to include southern voices in governance.
Athens has outgrown its hotel facilities and must build a large modern hotel to attract conventions and accommodate travelers. A new hotel would improve impressions, sustain tourism, and draw summer and winter visitors, speeding local prosperity and encouraging permanent residents. The effort, already funded in part, should intensify for swift success.
The Chamber of Commerce committee led by H. J. Rowe will push to complete stock canvassing for the new hotel. They believe the full needed sum can be raised within weeks as about a dozen stockholders have already committed forty thousand dollars. The Banner notes its steady, sometimes joked, support for years and aims to spur local interest toward a long overdue Athens hotel.
Episcopal Bishop Thomas F. Gallor denounces Tennessee divorce law as a threat to family integrity and civilization. He warns that judges can grant absolute divorces on vague grounds and cites cases such as remarriage while a spouse remains alive, urging reform to protect homes and curb caprice in the system.
A speaker condemns easy absolute divorce as an attack on marriage and womanhood, arguing Christianity and patriotism demand strict divorce limits. He cites Christian denominations, warns against progressive polygamy, and urges Tennessee to revise laws to protect the family and place the state in the lead among peers.
New York police report that gangs of thieves have come to register for the fall elections in the lower east side. A prisoner, who refused to give his name, claims all cops cannot prosecute him as he plans to leave after registering. One gang was pursued for an hour near East Houston Street amid robberies and a woman beaten on a sidewalk, later hospitalized. A loot at a butcher shop was stopped. one robber captured on burglary and highway robbery charges.
In Columbia South Carolina October 16 the appearance of Thomas Dixon’s play The Clansman drew large crowds but harsh reactions. Hisses and applause met Dixon as he defended his work and cast, while Rev Richard Carroll condemned the drama as damaging to the south’s prospects. Dixon left for Savannah after an invitation.
Savannah, Ga. magistrate Charles V. Hohenstein was convicted of malpractice in office and sentenced in superior court. Judge Cann ordered a $600 fine and costs or six months in jail, plus removal from office. A separate ad asserts Bucklen's Arnica Balm cures surface cancers with a beneficiary letter from Jes Walters of Dyffield, Va.
Four men named in a Washington grand jury indictment face charges of conspiring to defraud by obtaining advance information from Edwin S Holmes Jr of the Agriculture Department about the government cotton crop report. The figure alleged in the operation is about $200000 with multiple checks and telegrams cited. A motion for discharge was adjourned until October 21.
Washington October 16 The Georgia chaingang case was decided in favor of Georgia in the United States Supreme Court this morning. Henry Jamison a negro had been sent to the chaingang by the recorder court of Macon. He was released by Judge Speer on grounds the penalty was too severe for the offense. The court remanded the case saying the United States court had no right to interfere with the state court.
Unclaimed letters available for a penny additional fee include males and females with surnames Bowls Childs Cowen Hirst Hughes Jackson Kidd Richardson Sikes Smith Tarpley Steed Thomas Wares White Armstrong Burke Catchings Eva Cobb Dantley Gillin Johnson Jones Mahon McMahon Prescott Prill Pinero Sorrells Hattie Vaughner Warren Wright Mary Lizzie and miscellaneous entries for W H Arnold and Son and W Fleming P M.
Advertisement advises taking Dr King's New Life Pills to clear bodily clogging materials and restore energy. Claims to cure sour stomach, headache, and drowsiness. Sold by H. F. Palmer & Bons and W. J. Smith & Brg stores at 260, with a guaranteed offer.
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