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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1913
Page
5
Missionaries report the Veddah as a tribe with handsome men and plain women who labor and war. women grow old early, wear simple cloth, and adorn with beads. Men hunt, barter for arrowheads, and often keep multiple wives while women support families and join hunts. The Veddah culture remains patriarchal with male dominance and limited social change despite missionary influence.
The Chicago Journal notes May and December marriages persist despite proverbs. It cites reasons including care for an older partner, worldly experience, and genuine affection, suggesting many unions endure without public scandal while unhappy matches spark history.
A night at a Boonton theater ends with a coded message on screen reading Norman Browers wanted at home. The alert follows a burglary at the Brewers home a mile away where a 16 year old girl was attacked and found unconscious with a head wound, her grandparents contacting the theater by telephone. The text also includes stray lines about counterfeit money and conspiratorial dialogue.
Last night a well attended Clarke county Medical Society meeting in Athens featured a paper by visiting official Dr Paulin of Atlanta president of Fulton County Medical Society on The Wasserman Reaction. The talk drew appreciation from local physicians and county practitioners.
In uptown, the Anderson Brothers run a storefront trick featuring a glass pane, inverted light, and a wood strip pocket that conceals how the 16 candlepower lamp draws current. The mystery lies in how the lamp is energized without visible wires as observers watch the glow through the clear pane.
Mr Henry Weiderhold will deliver an illustrated talk on Asphalt next Monday at 8 oclock in Prof Campbell's classroom Le Conte Hall on the campus. He travels from South America and islands off its coast as a leading authority and will share experiences from the greatest beds of asphalt. All interested are invited to attend.
The University of Georgia senior class plans a gift to the university a portrait of Chancellor Barrow. Miss Lucy Stanton of the city who painted Howell Cobb’s portrait may paint Barrow if persuaded the work.
A striking notice asserts that more real danger hides in a common cold than in minor ailments and urges a safe cure with Chamber. It presents Chamber as the recommended preventive and treatment option for illnesses labeled as minor.
The Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation moves to restrain the newly formed Athens Ice and Coal Company from using its name claiming it inherited the old business name through purchase and continues to receive mail checks and bills under that name. Hearing before Judge Brand on March 1.
LOO special reports plans are set for the semiannual session of the fourteenth division S O O F in Washington Georgia next Wednesday and Thursday. Forty lodges and an anticipated 75 to 100 attendees will convene with D D G M J H Orr presiding. A public courthouse meeting Wednesday evening will feature address by W S Coleman grandmaster of Atlanta and talks by R L J Smith and T B Bonner on fellowship and service.
The Athens Elks celebrated a house warming after renovating the lodge home. The interior is described as elegant and tasteful, with renewed, revived spaces that impress guests. The event combined praise for the refurbished building with a successful welcome.
Mrs Clyde H Tavenner is described as the youngest wife among Sixty third congress members and helped canvass the Fourteenth Kansas district for her husband Clyde H Tavenner who is thirty. She recently turned twenty one.
The Demosthenian and Phi Kappa societies marked milestone anniversaries, though dates misaligned with the February twenty first. Last night’s chapel program featured Thomas J. Lance on The Problem of Unrest and Morganstern on The Public and the Press, with H L Rogers and Masters of Ceremonies guiding events.
Whitfield county resident S. M. Sanders announces a two year campaign for Whitfield County treasurer challenging incumbent Thomas. Sanders vows constant canvassing to secure votes far ahead of the vote, hoping to set a record for a county office in Georgia and perhaps the nation.
Harmony Grove Lodges No 75 Knights of Pythias sent delegates to the First district meeting in Athens yesterday. J B Hardman W B Rice R L J and S J Smith and Lloyd Holbrook attended while Col S J Smith Jr presided and delivered the welcome.
The Washington accord by the United States, Great Britain, Russia and Japan bans at sea slaughter for 15 years and places surplus hunting on land under national control. It covers the Alaskan, Russian and Japanese fur seals with breeding grounds on select islands, notably the Pribilof group, and aims to conserve a depleted resource crucial to multiple nations. The piece details species distribution, breeding habits, seasonal movements, diet, and the seals’ remarkable endurance.
The New York World reports giants in a forest reserve between the West Fork Hood River headwaters and Bull Run Lake Oregon. Trees reach several hundred feet high on a hidden canyon floor, with two species described: a tall smooth-barked cedarlike tree and a straight limbless form with a candlelike crown.
Jobo Muir recalls red headed linnets bathing from a Monterey cypress, dew gathering on broad leaves in still nights, then scattering droplets in showers. He notes similar baths by birds near glacier meadows and contrasts them with pigs, ending with a vivid Atlantic letter description.
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