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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1892
Page
8
Royal Baking Powder is shown by tests to be absolutely pure and 27 percent stronger than any other brand. Many second class brands are offered at higher prices despite lower quality and 27 percent lower strength. If you are compelled to buy them, ensure a lower charge reflects the reduced value.
In this historical column the author argues for normal schools to professionalize teaching, tracing ideas from 1789 to Horace Mann. It praises training over rote process, recalls old methods with birch and three R’s, and urges establishment of normal schools across the South and Empire State, led by education reformers like Elisha Tichnor and Marr Gwatring.
The Lucy Cobb Institute contemplates adding an annex needing about two thousand dollars for building additions. Miss Rutherford refuses pupils for lack of space. A benefactor is sought to name the annex. Visitors include Mr T V Porter of Jacksonville, and new boarders Maude Atwood and Bessie Heyward join L C I. Faculty and students enjoy elocution prizes and a missionary address by Mr Lowry of Augusta.
A retrospective note invites readers to recall the straightforward path followed by Skiff the Jeweler, urging trust in his guidance and pointing to Skiff the Jewelers for a wide range of jewelry and silverware offerings. The text emphasizes avoiding distractions from the city and hints at diamonds as a highlighted item.
A Sanitary Era excerpt criticizes prize fighting, gambling in baseball, and public scandals as signs of a nation drifting toward moral rapids. It contrasts current decadence with past stage decencies, warns of degrading influences from Paris, and urges divine intervention to reverse the Augustan age of materialism.
The passage defines consecration as complete readiness to do God’s will, not just willingness to perform Christian work. It stresses surrendering personal plans, keeping life at Christ’s disposal, and ready submission to His call, even when it upends prior arrangements.
A Sunday Afternoon poem vignette where corn and lilies argue about labor. The lilies remain idle but bloom sweeter, while a tired teacher arrives and teaches that life is more than meat. He notes the lilies grow beautifully without toil and in their own simple grace, he loves them.
A reader recalls a children’s Bible moment about the Good Shepherd from the Twenty third Psalm. Tiny’s simple line He carries them up the hill echoes with gentle faith and comfort, lifting the speaker’s weary soul like an angelic tune.
A persistent habit is like a bent tree that cannot be instantly straightened. One must slowly guide it by binding, scarifying, and steadily bending over years, using gradual, repeated effort to achieve permanent correction.
A traveler recalls a guide warning him against a dangerous path on a ten thousand foot ascent. The man ignored the guide and suffered a severe accident. The tale urges obedience to a heavenly guide for safe journeys.
A six year old girl bravely saved her eleven year old sister after the elder toppled from a raft. With no one nearby she threw herself forward, grabbed the sister by the dress, and held on until both could reach the raft.
Monday morning offers a nudge to prepare for next Sunday's offerings as a mother recalls a child’s bed and a two cent piece. The Kyieuts Damox-This Lodge in Athens promises growth, led by J. F. Walker, with a large charter member list. The Rome Tribune reports the betrothal of Nannie Lancaster Gwaltney and Clifford Barrington King, to be celebrated privately at the bride’s father Rev Dr Gwaltney’s home on November 31. King, a prominent Rome businessman, hails from Georgia’s old families and is now Rome-adopted.
C W Ackerman, a porter, touched an electric-light wire and toppled a dead man in Kansas City. George Schmitt, famed crook, sentenced to fifty years for grand larceny in Saginaw. In Monroe, Mary Baubien sues William Rowan for breach of promise. Morley Roberts, English writer, to work on London docks for local color. Corporal Tanner profits as a Washington pension agent, reportedly earning 200000 in three years. The Madisonian reports a Jackson county bet disrupting a man’s stock in trade. Mr. W Diamond crafts a portrait of ex president Cleveland from his public addresses. Brunswick Times praises George W Haines of Brunswick and Western for safe, swift service. Augusta Herald notes Atlanta delegation to Colombo celebration returned, happy, sober, and broke. Mrs M B Price, wife of East Tennessee conductor, critically ill at home. Jake Hollis and W A Huff lauded for driving State fair efforts. Lawrence Lumber Co of Chauncey placed in receivership at Eastman. Case seeks cancellation of mortgages and receivership in pending dispute. J A Smith’s arson trial ends with discharge.
The Will Wood case grows complex as a warrant is issued for simple larceny after a mule purchase. Wood escapes bailiff custody, is recaptured for a trial, then vanishes again after stepping out for water. The trial is postponed due to his absence, while Col. E. T. Brown notes no evidence of forced entry and Dowson damages are unlikely.
Atchison Oct 22 ten masked men attacked Mrs. Harry C Walcott home and assaulted F M Fowler her attorney. Fowler drew a revolver but was overpowered and dragged outside. He freed his arm and knocked two men down. Walcott admitted leading the mob claiming it was to enter evidence of his wife s infidelity rather than harm Fowler. Mrs Walcott and Fowler deny improper conduct. Walcott heads a tin roof firm. Mrs Walcott refuses to prosecute.
In Texas cities Galveston Houston San Antonio Austin Dallas Waco Fort Worth and Denison the new Australian ballot law prompts debate over ticket design and candidate name placement. Republicans challenge Clark Democrats amid fears the attorney general's opinion could hinder Clark’s cross ticket presence.
Judge Leister Babcock aged 76 a longtime St Louis lawyer won a fortune with Miss Fannie J Siebenman as his bride. After a five month courtship they married in the recorder’s office a large property valued at about seventy thousand dollars transfers to her. Friends doubted the visits were professional in nature.
Prsz Buurr Arkansas October 22. Mr A D Hall of Terre Haute Indiana arrives to prove the death of his sister in law Miss Ida Corrigan. He finds the girl alive in Blanche Roland's house, living as Ida Corrigan. She has fallen heir to a fortune and needs her death to wind up the estate. She is about 18 and quite pretty. She left for her old home with Mr.
In Hot Springs Arkansas Ralph Mayer of New Orleans recovered his voice after two weeks of treatment and ten baths. Physicians call the outcome remarkable and Mayer’s household rejoices at the turn of events. In Jefferson a colored preacher Carey faced salary repudiation from peers yet received a purse from locals praising his Democratic vote.
London’s National club offered $20,000 for a Corbett vs Jackson match with Jackson to receive bets beyond the purse. Corbett replied contracts keep him absent a year but would accept the largest purse as soon as possible, noting a possible New Orleans Athletic club bout over Mitchell as the best money move. Also included are local incidents: a Kentucky officer’s on duty death after a pistol accident, Garza’s arrest delay clarification from Mexico, and Senator Ingalls’s illness forcing schedule cancellations in Kansas.
In tight economic times Davison and Lowe promote spending wisely with special lots from Northern and Eastern factories. They offer a wide Dry Goods and Notions range from cheapest to finer grades, promising to please all tastes and budgets.
A long list of discounted fabrics and apparel outlines low prices on checks shirting prints serge dress goods and crepe items. The sale highlights include wool dress fabrics lightweight textiles blankets and various hosiery and undergarments with a mix of unusually cheap bargains. Also noted is an administrator’s sale of a Clarke county residence with public auction details.
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