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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1913
Page
3
Gainesville reports a unanimous decision against woman suffrage led by representatives E. B. Dunlap and Hammond Johnson. The meeting in Gainesville saw no suffrage association formed though preliminary steps were taken and speeches judged good.
An OCR fragment references Ella Powells address being magnifi cent while Gainesville was not wheeled into a suffrage parade. The sentence hints at a postcard style note or event description without full context or dates.
An advertisement touts Bucklen’s Amica Salve as a universal pain killer for cuts bruises sprains burns and skin injuries. Endorsed by E. E Chamberlain of Clinton Maine it claims to erase pain instantly and equals a healing remedy yet to be found. Sold for 25 cents at W. J. Smith & Bro and H. R. Palmer & Sons.
Ex convict James Ryan, alias James Root, reports rampant disorder in Clinton, Sing Sing and Auburn prisons. He details fights, officer assaults, dope and whisky, dope, and protests against officers, with praise for none. He cites specific incidents and names officials and guards involved.
In Pittsburgh near Schenley Park a car nearly jumped a passenger who cried Jenny fell off. The conductor stopped the car and the rider vanished into the darkness. Moments later the rider returned with a corncob pipe and a relieved friend said she was an old friend.
Saratoga report shows Americans spend nearly 600 million dollars annually on music. Opera eight million, concerts thirty million, church music up to fifty five million, theater orchestras thirty million, bands thirty five million, conservatories and teachers one hundred seventy five million, American students abroad seven million six hundred thousand. Freund notes musical expenditures total about 320 million for musical industries, three times the army and navy outlay.
Clarke county representation split as the Stovall amendment defeats the Lipscomb bill. The measure aimed to empower a state board for uniform inter county policy, but removing the board nullified enforcement and prospects of relief for the business climate. 105 ayes and 68 nays with several members not voting.
New York reports managerial plans for the season show broad activity with many Barrie and classic repertoires. Major names Frohman Barrymore and Shubert set tours and premieres including Maude Adams Barrie cycle and bills like Much Ado About Nothing and Kismet.
The piece notes Chile’s 7,000,000 acre forest area and India’s teak plantations as strong as natural teak. It mentions Germany’s fire risk, Prussian lookout towers, and a cellulose silk industry. It also describes army bayonets used in emergency forest fire telephony and a medical tip promoting Chamberlain’s Tablets for constipation.
The Rev. Clayton E. Wheat resigns as rector of St. George's Ep iscopal to accept a call from St. John the Evangelist in Iingham Mass. He has led St. George's two and a half years and is greatly loved. Resignation effective August 17. Also a reader reports a remarkable dysentery cure using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after two months of illness and weight loss.
Allison Iowa clergyman Rev H Stubenwoll praises Dr King's New Life Pills for constipation calling them perfect bills and a necessary liver and bowel regulator. Ad claims guaranteed relief and lists W J Smith & Bro and H R Palmer & Sons as sellers at 25 cents.
The article lists superlatives: largest trees in Tulare county California with base circumference 108 feet and 13 foot ground point 76 feet. Sahara desert 3 000 by 900 miles with rain intervals. Mammoth cave Kentucky with Echo river passages. Popocatepetl volcano at 17 500 feet. St Gothard tunnel 9 miles long. Great Wall of China 1 500 miles long 20 feet high 25 feet base. Cheops pyramid 89 000 000 cubic feet masonry 451 feet high. Statue of Liberty 151 feet plus pedestal 155. Genoa lamp 210. Cape Hatteras 189. Moscow great bell 86 circumference 21 height 23 inches thick 217 tons never hung.
A horse stopped and foreleg lifted to protect a child amid pulling a lorry in Aberdeen, sparing the girl from being trampled. The driver found the child beneath hoofs after the mare refused to move. In London, business leaders debate whether women are safer money handlers, with mixed views and a suffragette asserting women are superior in honesty morals and brains.
A dinner tale centers on James Russell Lowell who wrote What is so rare as a day in June an autograph entry. A later visit reveals the line amended with a schoolboy joke about A Chinaman with whiskers. The misreading prompts correction at a club.
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