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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1922
Page
4
The piece reflects on 117 years ago when stove wood cost 21 a cord and prices rose during wars. It recalls Flying Mercuries drivers in 1805, hogs roaming Wall Street, lack of sewage, and fire risks, arguing urban ills are old but offset by city advantages.
Georgia State College of Agriculture reports club members added about half a million dollars to state income last year through diversified crops and livestock. J Phil Campbell notes 6,838 boys enrolled. clubs won 30 thousand in prizes, with marketing guidance emphasized alongside production.
A massive fossil skeleton of the largest prehistoric reptile yet found in Patagonia is described. The creature stood about 50 feet tall and 140 feet long during the Mesozoic era, roaming ancient forests while modern traffic would fail to slow it. The note contrasts giant ancient life with today’s dangers and human impact, including explosions and safety in daily life.
Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of. No map is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not worthy to be in peril for a good cause, John Brown of Osawatomie.
In Berton Braley's verse the mountains and sea fail to outshine the lure of urban lights. City love calls homemost while workers roam far. The poem praises the glamorous city glow that summons dreamers home despite distant travels.
Harmony Grove Ga November 1895 note gathering items from Athens era. Rev R S Cheney former Harmony Grove resident now preacher and educator at Carlton Ga visits town circulating among friends. Justice A P Garson Bold Springs Ga on official business. Wrights new Pine Street home nearing completion, improving main thoroughfare. General sense of town growth and activity as saws and hammers resound.
Mr. L. F. Edwards of Crawford is in the city. Mr. 8. P. Christopher of Bishop was in Athens yesterday. Visitors to Athens yesterday included T. P. Elder and J. A. Anderson of Oconee county. Messrs. O. H. Arnold and Vincent Arnold of Oglethorpe county paid Athens a visit yesterday.
The Knights of Pythias in Athens are booming as St Elmo plans a major meeting next Monday night. Several degrees will be conferred and all members are urged to attend. Grand Chancellor Commander Hamilton Douglas of Atlanta will attend from the state.
Athens residents celebrate Montieth Flanigen’s success in Ohio and note reduced drunkenness this Christmas. The article also previews the inauguration of a white way in Athens, spring fashion notes, savings advice for the new year, and a state farmers conference at the State College of Agriculture urging business and banking support for agricultural progress.
A puzzle notes a cornerstone of an old building replaced after a collapse and relaid upside down by accident without detection. It asks for the date on the cornerstone. The yesterday’s answer describes bridging a pond with two inadequately long boards, with a diagram illustrating the method used.
Fort Worth Texas report warns hundreds of thousands of investors nationwide face losses in wildcat oil promotions. Special investigator BE A Schwab estimates promoters have raised hundreds of millions from stock sales, with up to half of proceeds paid to publicity men and brokers before any drilling.
The imperial diet opened with Prince Regent Hirohito and Premier Kato absent due to illness. Baron Kato and Viscount Uchida read tributes and an address urging reform in harmony with allies. United States Ambassador Warren and other diplomats attended.
Warren G Harding presides amid relics and pipes on his desk as inspiration and warnings from founding fathers anchor decisions. The piece recalls Montgomerys rail adventures in Shelbyville and Muncie, plus jokes about Nick Longworth after Uncle Joe Cannons departure.
C R Vas, president of the congress, urged self rule as the key goal and endorsed nonviolence and noncooperation as the path to Swaraj. He acknowledged some Indians doubt nonviolence but argued history shows revolution by force fails to win freedom. He urged India to join a wider Asiatic federation replacing PanIslamic movements.
San Francisco reports the California railroad commission authorized the Tontal Telegraph company to discontinue its Visalis office and permitted J C Ward the oldest telegrapher in the United States to retire as manager. Ward has served since the Civil War era and claims ties to the Morse code and Thomas Edison.
Athens landowner Hi Arnold, born on an Oglethorpe farm, plans to plant ten acres of Spanish peanuts on each of his Morgan and other farms next year, alongside ten acres of corn and velvet beans, five acres of small grain, then Otakan beans on stubble. He cites high returns, oil uses, and strong peanut duties as safeguards against cotton losses from boll weevil.
Mr Arnold asserts he can control boll weevil without waiting for hatch and costly poisons. He favors a tobacco and buckeye spray to reach germs in squares and young bolls that calcium arsenate misses. Destroying one weevil prevents many from hatching, he argues, urging a shift in focus to the pest’s early stages.
The article explains using a strong tobacco and buckeye mixture to saturate plants and kill weevil eggs and grubs. Calcium arsenate is safe for grown weevils after they appear, but preventing hatching is key. Mr Arnold notes tobacco can be grown locally and buckeye grows in woods, with the mix applied by sprinkler.
KEARNEY New Jersey 82 year Civil War veteran George Manee crafted his own prosthetic leg from discarded egg crates umbrella handles stove bolts and handkerchiefs in the New Jersey Home for Disable Soldiers He glues 16 ply crate wood shapes it with a rasp fastens to a foot with bolts coats it in shellac and uses no knee brace or thigh lacing making a lighter more comfortable limb He tested it by kicking and dancing on the finished leg
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