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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1912
Page
4
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The Athens column covers basketball optimism with George Stallings and his Bisons, plus Chamber of Commerce plans for a strong year. It critiques Harper’s Weekly on Woodrow Wilson, discusses third party talk with La Follette and Bryan, urges reduced cotton acreage with crop diversification, and notes impending downtown courthouse bond elections in Clarke County with calls for more voter turnout.
The piece argues relocating the Confederate monument from a busy traffic center to the city hall lawn at College and Hancock would reduce danger to teams, machines, and cars, ease congestion, and improve display and care of the monument.
An economic survey by Clarke county students shows black farmers expanding land ownership sharply while white farms grow slowly. In Clarke county 957 Negroes own homes or farms, owning 8 223 acres and nearly one eighth of county farmland, with greater shares in Bradberry and Princeton districts. The piece urges white farmers to redistribute land to create about one thousand small white farms for stable livelihoods.
The editorial notes Southeast expansion with Alabama iron orders from Austria for 15,000 tons and Hull England for 10,000 tons pig iron. It argues the South should gain from home manufacture, lower prices for cotton goods, and protection that favors domestic mills and workers, reducing overseas freight costs.
On January 20 historical notes include Andre Marie Ampere born in 1775 in Lyons and d 1836 in Marseilles. 1846 telegraph link Philadelphia Fort Lee. 1858 Philadelphia’s first steam fire engine. 1862 John D Bright expelled from U S Senate for disloyalty. 1886 Mersey tunnel opening. 1891 Death of King Kalakaua in San Francisco. 1900 John Ruskin death. 1911 Reciprocity Commissioners agreement reached between the U S and Canada.
Harriott Stanton Blatch born January 20 1856 in Seneca Falls New York daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton noted for promoting woman suffrage. This birthday note recalls Blatch as a leading figure in the suffrage movement.
Blatch educated at Vassar lived in England then returned to the United States to pursue sociological work and child labor reform. She heads the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women and has lectured nationwide on shorter hours for women and children. Applauses for Richard Le Gallienne and other notable birthdays are noted. Also a medical advertisement touts Chamberlains Cough Remedy for croup relief and general cough treatment popular with mothers.
A fragment advertises Uncle Remus material with a subscription offer. It mentions a $2.50 price for six months and urges orders, indicating an old subscriber or mailing context. The text is incomplete but signals a promotional subscription pitch.
Athens city time governs arrivals and departures for Central of Georgia, Seaboard Air Line, Southern Railway, Georgia Railroad, and Gainesville Midland. Schedule highlights include Central of Georgia daily Macon departures at 7:80 a.m. and 5 p.m., and Athens arrivals from Macon at 1:16 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Seaboard lists northbound and southbound trains with specific numbers and times, while Southern Railway shows arrivals 9:35 a.m., 11:51 a.m., and 7:26 p.m., with departures through 7:865 a.m. and 12:50 p.m. Gainesville Midland notes Dec 4 1911 effective times.
An advertorial note touts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a reliable family medicine for all ages. It claims to prevent and treat colds coughs croup bronchitis and pneumonia with use by children and adults and urges purchase from druggists.
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