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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1911
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner outlines subscription rates and delivery guidance, urges reporting delivery issues, and notes no carrier should collect payments. It highlights local efforts on good roads, education events, races, and ongoing city campaigns including jail and infirmary funding, with focus on University of Georgia activities and Southern rail publicity drives.
In Athens the Confederate Memorial Day program features a chapel ceremony at the University, veterans recounting memories and music, followed by a city parade. University cadets and Clarke Rifles join the procession to Oconee cemetery as citizens honor fallen soldiers and living veterans alike.
The author argues that government seed distributions to citizens are ineffective. They urge funding for high quality cotton or corn seed, distributed widely enough to aid farmers, even if costly, and criticize the current garden seed program as wasteful and inconsequential.
Freshmen at the university held an annual debate last night on women’s right to vote. The Phi Kappa group supported suffrage with J Funkenstein L Michael of Athens and L C Cooper arguing the affirmative alongside the Demosthenians D Cummings I Leive and W Westbrooks for the negative. The event showcased strong argument and oratory with suitable music throughout.
A nationwide league day with fair skies saw all Southern American and National matches played. New York and Boston split results with the Americans and Nationals each winning once while Atlanta beat Memphis and Mobile edged Montgomery in two eleven inning contests.
Athens markets show middling cotton quotes with Cincinnati and Chicago bids. The page lists numerous lodge meetings including Royal Arch Masons Keystone Chapter and Knights of Pythias, plus railroad schedules for Central of Georgia Seaboard and Southern lines. A medical ad promotes Chamberlain’s Tablets for constipation.
The Cabinet Club of the University met at Mr. T. J. Wooster Jr.'s Cloverhurst avenue home to discuss Bret Hiart. Papers on his life poems novels and short stories were read and the group praised the year's work before a late supper and a successful gathering.
Notable events include the birth of David Hume in 1711 and Artemus Ward in 1834, debt imprisonment abolition in New York in 1831, Booth’s 1865 attack, Mackenzie’s 1880 leadership resignation, Carnegie visit in 1906, and Bjornson’s 1910 death. scattered birth and death notes across years.
The text notes that Mr. Hunt was a candidate in the general election of 1908 and was successful in both elections.
Aylmer Byron Hunt born April 26 1864 in Bury Quebec. He trained as a carriage maker and lumber dealer amassing a fortune through timber land speculation. He entered politics as Liberal candidate in 1900 for Quebec legislature and later joined the Dominion parliament before an annulled election and byeelection.
An advertisement touts Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied. It cites bismuth subnitrate and pepsin as key ingredients and notes three sizes priced 25 cents 50 cents and 1 dollar. Also mentions The Rexall Store at H R Palmer & Sons Athens Ga and a humorous note about Methodists versus Baptists on a Macon baseball diamond.
There is no prayer meeting at the First Presbyterian Church this afternoon due to Memorial exercises in the University of Georgia chapel.
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