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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1891
Page
2
The article praises the penny a day pledge used by the Salvation Army and allied groups. It argues that regular small gifts keep missions in mind, grow giving habits, and could dramatically boost church funding for Christian work worldwide.
A woman lecturing against Christianity declared Christ a myth. A working man asked how thirty years ago a curse to this town began with arrest and police intervention, ending with him finding Christ and questions about past failures.
A humorous note pretends Shakespeare would urge readers in the 19th century to take a remedy for indigestion. It asserts the product ends panes and torments and offers a money back guarantee if it fails.
Content mixes juvenile moral tales on smoking with a Brooklyn schoolboy’s death from cigarettes and a disturbing Indianapolis mob lashings case. It includes a plea against tobacco, a dramatic account of White Caps beating a defenseless woman, and a health advertisement praising a female medicine.
A sensational military matter from Camp Chickamauga involves Captain Wyatt Owens of the Clarke Rifles and Captain G W Weaver of the Conyers Volunteers. A Madison mental court martial found Weaver guilty of conduct un officer with an appeal to the governor pending amid questioned legality.
A cotton factor notes continued dry weather across the south is shortening the crop while quality remains high and prices strong. Athens gains two new cotton agencies boosting market status as farmers delay receipts awaiting better prices. Mrs A R Grady and Mrs W A Kennon of Brunswick visit Athens for about a month and plan to attend the Grady statue unveiling in Atlanta.
London reports from San Sebastián say Seymour Lucas and Maurice Long died in a Burgos to San Sebastián rail crash. Numerous deaths include a Victoria judge and family. many English tourists perished as passengers slept. Queen Victoria halted birthday fetes upon learning the disaster details.
St. Petersburg dispatches report rising distress in Siberia with peasants starving due to potato failure and a destructive sooka pest. Authorities levy labor taxes while the governor calls for vigorous measures against strikers as outbreaks of famine and unrest spread from Astrakan villages to Nijni Novgorod.
News from Swainsboro Georgia reports a black laborer about 20 years old entered Mrs. Garrison’s home with a Winchester. He killed or harmed her then fled into the woods. A posse pursued, captured him six miles away, he escaped again by untying a rope. dogs aided the chase.
A rowboat capsized off Low Point on the Hudson River and five people drowned, including Andrew Potosnoke and his wife Slavs, two residents of Brockway’s. The two-year-old child Frank, from Roseton, survived.
A moonlit scene presents a silent visitor in white robes, addressing a grieving mother. The poem speaks of loss, pity, and comfort from the dead, with references to rain like drips on a silk nail and a sanded floor that burned as tears fall.
Clementine wins the old blue ginger jar from Aunt Phebe then neglects the silken hose Randall hid in the jar. Randall writes a love letter unseen. Clementine returns home unaware of his gesture and pursues social clubs while he endures a sober vigil.
Emma Carleton’s Romance of the Ginger Jar narrates a tale of Randall Clementine and a mysterious blue jar containing a pink strip with a wedding outcome bound to the jar. A separate prep note from Detroit Free Press explains preserving apples and pears in sand or sawdust for long storage with moisture control.
A waiter apologizes to a hungry guest for a long gap since taking the order, noting the delay and offering explanation in a brief exchange.
Clarke County Superior Court certifies the Athens Hotel Company petition to form a corporation for twenty years to own or lease hotels in Athens and Clarke County. Capital stock one million dollars, Directors may increase to two hundred fifty thousand. principal office in Athens Georgia.
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