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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
5
Judge Brand grants a temporary injunction barring the mayor and council of latin from collecting a tax of one dollar on the sale of nit. The ruling sets a date to decide if the injunction should become permanent. The court has not yet ruled on granting a permanent injunction.
The Populist executive committee met in room 102 of the Kim Tall lones and drafted a Georgia electoral ticket with no Democrats on it. After three hours the ticket was set, signaling the Populists will field their own slate, with several named electors and alternates from multiple counties.
Wry Alabama Sept 7 Mrs Gwy Pope, wife of a well known merchant, was struck by lightning near the fireplace in her dining room at home Saturday and died. The bolt struck the house, and historians note the tragedy as a rare lightning incident with unanswered questions about its cause and timing.
In Crawford county Georgia a forgotten gravesite of Col Benjamin Hawkins, longtime superintendent of Indian Affairs, is rediscovered by W. Walker. Georgia historian records Hawkins’s role under Washington, his county farm on the Flint river, and urged care for the site. Separately in Danville Samuel Gompers plans a Labor Day address to boost efforts to defeat Joseph Cannon, the Speaker, in Illinois’s eighteenth district race.
J J Firestone of Allegan Mich reports taking two Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets last night and feels fifty percent better than for weeks They call the medicine fine for biliousness and it is sold by local druggists including H B Palmer Orr Drug Co Warren J Switch E McEvoy and L P Cane
A promotional armband style advice piece extols Parisian Sage hair growth product from H R Palmer & Sons. It promises hair growth, stopping falling hair, curing dandruff, and scalp itch within two weeks or money back. The ad touts sage's cooling properties and appeals to women seeking lustrous hair, offering a large bottle for 50 cents plus prepaid express delivery from Giroux Mfg Co Buffalo NY.
P J Daly of 1247 W Congress St Chicago promotes Electric Bitters as a way to gain strength and remedy stomach liver and kidney complaints. He cites his feeble mother improved by the medicine and urges others to try it under guaranteed safety at local drug stores W J Smith & Bro H R Palmer & Sons.
Mrs. Lillian M. Cheshire argues the thumb reveals character and will. She cites famed figures like Souvaroff and Voltaire, notes thumb anatomy as a psychological thermometer, and claims thumb prints aid medical diagnosis, crime identification, and even passport security across the empire in a period tone.
William J. Bryan leaves Fairview Nebraska at 4 PM by Rock Island for a three week tour to the middle west and east. He remarks that Taft’s campaign moves vindicate his own positions on income tax railroad regulation tariff reform and Philippine independence. He notes phonograph use and criticizes Republican tactics and press reception. He arrives in Chicago at 8 49 AM and will meet with Democratic managers at Auditorium annex.
Kansas City dispatch reports Charles W. Anderson, freed less than a year ago on a pardon signed by 13,000 local residents, was arrested for running a gambling room. Once jailed for a post office robbery, he fled, prospered, and returned to crime aided by thumbprint fraud and forged wax impressions before being captured and convicted.
New York headlines a Labor Day surge with massive baggage piles at terminals signaling renewed work and brisk commerce. Political shocks echo as reform forces, business and church groups align to demand a fair field, while losses of Bishop Potter and Mackay deepen city mourning. park officials test fragile elm plantings along Broadway for a leafy future.
Hon Thomas E Watson candidate for the presidency on the populist ticket will address a large audience in this city at the court house on Wednesday the 16th at ten oclock. This will be the first time in many years he has spoken there.
Mark Johnson a Black man known as a blind tiger was arrested Sunday in Atlanta and returned to Athens where he begins serving a six month sentence for gang activity. He escaped after brief imprisonment, later fled on a streetcar, then was recaptured by Athens authorities and faces additional time.
The Woodmen of the World in Winterville unveiled two monuments over the graves of Joseph J. Martin and Henry A. Winter. About 350 people attended the cemetery service conducted by Counsel Commander George B. Davis of Athens. Rev W M Calle of Winterville and T W Reed of Athens gave addresses.
North tramp tourists, driven by the yearly cold wave, begin moving south into the area. They travel various ways, from riding on a juggernaut to sleeping cars, and rely on begging or vagrancy. Police warn that the first arrival will be made an example to deter others heading this way.
Professor Joseph S. Stewart will move his family into the campus residence recently vacated by Professor A. H. Patterson in a few days marking a housing change on campus.
A promotional note urges using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs colds croup and whooping cough in children. Sold by H R Palmer & Sons Orr Drug Co Warren J Smith & Bro B C McEvoy and L F Canning.
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