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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1910
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists subscription rates and delivery notes, urges readers to vote and participate in events, and prints a column of humorous items. Topics include music festival promotion, Bible conference, franchise questions, politics, marriages, canal talk, and local anecdotes.
The essay extols Athens as a unique urban blend of education, industry, and culture in Georgia and the South. It argues the city should host a permanent yearly music festival, drawing parallels to Birmingham, Atlanta, and other cities, with Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra sought to elevate the event and boost regional prestige.
The piece argues that national representatives fail to protect the general public from rapacious interests and inflated prices on necessities. It cites the Havemeyer sugar trust as an example of an “infant industry” long past infancy and condemns tariff protections that cost American families about $95 annually in added table expenses under the Payne Aldrich bill.
In Athens patrons seek to understand how films are made and distributed. The Motion Picture Patents Company, a strong trust including Selig and Biograph, controls releases via exchanges and licenses. Prices run about ten cents per reel, with yearly outlays for theaters and staff, while independent rivals struggle to gain footing.
Brief list of historical notes for February 23 including births and deaths of Henry Dearborn and Thomas Tinsey, the Waverly authorship acknowledgment by Sir Walter Scott, and several 19th century political and legal milestones. Also notes Civil War captures in North Carolina and the 1893 Paris arbitration meeting.
The article notes Margaret Wade Deland’s birth in Allegheny Pennsylvania on February 23 1857. It details her private school education in Pittsburgh and New York, early writing, marriage to Lorin F. Deland in 1880, and a prolific career with over twenty novels plus magazine articles and children’s stories. It mentions Boston as home and a summer property in Kennebunkport Maine. It also cites a Lincoln Day remark by Congressman McCall of Massachusetts criticizing a trend to regulate man by law.
The Georgia Medical Association will meet in Athens on April 20 with several hundred physicians attending. A committee led by W F Dorsey H J Rowe C M Snelling M G Michael J A Darwin prepared a welcome program. Dr I H Goss will give the welcome, Mayor Rowe will speak for the city, and W F Dorsey of the Chamber will welcome the business group. The event aims to showcase Athens' spirit and hospitality.
Leroy Suddeth, a sophomore at the University of Georgia, has passed entrance exams for the United States Military Academy at West Point and will enter in March as a fourth year cadet in June. Tatnall Simkins, a civil engineering graduate, plans to take entrance exams soon after returning to the city from Albany.
Window display at Dashel son Co. features one of the prettiest and most artistic exhibits of extension cooking class work conducted Thursday and Tuesday at the Athens High and Industrial School inviting the public to view the progress and skill of city cooks.
A false alarm triggered by suspected malicious motives prompted a call to box 43 at an early hour. Firemen and horses endured a grueling run through mud and bad streets while police hunt the culprit, who will face severe action if caught.
Mrs Z H Epting was injured by a broken water meter box on a sidewalk while attending a Bible conference. She is reported to be improving from the hurt as the incident is noted in the department’s report.
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