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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1891
Page
4
Local column quotes Patrick Walsh on Georgia politics and the Farmers Alliance. It criticizes Sunday opening for the World Fair and defends keeping the Agricultural College in Athens, urging Governor Northen to veto any move to move it to Griffin.
Board of Lady Directors votes to close the Columbian Exposition on Sunday. They urge the male trustees to follow and end the debate as a factor of morality and intelligence, expressing that such a question should not have been raised.
The argument to move the Agricultural College from Athens to Griffin cites statistics. Eighteen agricultural colleges operate with state universities while nine are independent. In many cases isolated colleges exist where there is no state university. Griffin advocates urged reading up on these figures.
The text argues that railroad legislation by the General Assembly is blamed for Central Railroad stock dropping below ninety. Telegrams urging inaction reach newspapers, while stockowners, mainly families with limited means, defend against depreciation. The piece notes Georgia Pacific’s prior high stock level and questions the legislative impact.
The piece rakes through New York telegrams attacking Georgia lawmakers over the West Point Terminal Company and Berner bill, noting stock declines in Central railroad before the July legislature session. It warns of sensational reports, cites cotton crop damage and possible price rises, and mocks political meddling while urging readers to send cotton to Athens.
Tur Baxner celebrates Democratic progress as clubs form across counties and the Clarke Young Men’s Democratic Club earns praise. He warns against third party moves and urges southern unity behind Jeffersonian values and old South loyalty as 1892 approaches.
A fragmented regional column mocks Grover Cleveland and party lines while noting Tom Watson’s influence, college crowds on campus, and trade worries. It questions Calhoun’s platform, mentions silver coinage talk, and implies Cleveland retreats from politics for months amid farm and sugar bounty thoughts.
A collage of witty lines and cartoonish quips from various papers. Jokes about fashion and modest cleverness mix with playful barbs on politics and society. The excerpt showcases era tone humor and fragmentary punchlines across multiple publications.
An advertisement asserts deafness from inflamed Eustachian tube lining can be cured only by constitutional remedies rather than local applications. It claims catarrh causes deafness and offers $100 for any case not cured by Cheney’s Catarrh Cure, inviting readers to send for free circulars.
A local source explains the dispensary in Clarke county cannot open until it is established. The process requires liquor analysis by commissioners, sample orders, price comparisons, and shipment, a sequence that will take at least two weeks to complete under the law.
Over fifty years the MR and W Winslow soothing syrup is advertised for teething fits for children. It soothes the child and eases gums, relieves wind colic, and is claimed to cure diarrhea. Bottles priced at twenty one cents, sold by druggists worldwide.
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