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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1912
Page
4
Clarke County politics shows life as Athens grows college baseball plans for the coming South season. Vague notes on weather, a Tennessee lynching, Governor Wilson’s silence, and a bond election for a new courthouse are mentioned amid broader calls for road improvements and political discussion statewide.
Georgia plans a business like overhaul of the Department of Agriculture following the Ault investigation. Officials say the change will save state funds and reduce waste by tying fees and salaries to commensurate services.
Representative Ollie Adams of Hall announces he will introduce a bill at the next Georgia legislature session to replace gallows with the electric chair as the method of capital punishment. He suggests selecting a site in the state to install a chair for executions.
Athens schedules fifteen home games at Sanford Field with fifteen on the road or TBA. Michigan, Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, Auburn, Clemson, Washington and Lee, Tech and others to visit. New York Americans with Hal Chase and George Stalling’s Bisons to appear in early exhibitions. Local efforts push rail rate plans, advertising, and social events to draw crowds and strengthen the Athens Georgia sports culture.
An editorial argues the Farmers Union appeals to reduce cotton acreage may fail to curb production. It notes farmers profess support yet often pursue higher prices by increasing other crops and tending more cotton elsewhere, urging practical shifts to corn, livestock, and truck farming instead.
Highlights list events from 1649 beheading of King Charles I to 1902 Anglo Japanese alliance treaty signing. Includes Henry Greathead lifeboat first sea trial, John Fairfield Maine figure born, 1847 Lord Elgin oath in Canada, 1849 Wisconsin Historical Society, 1862 Monitor launch, 1879 Jules Grevy election, 1888 Asa Gray death, 1891 Charles Bradlaugh death, 1895 North German Lloyd Elbe disaster, ending with 1902 alliance pact in London.
The article notes General Victor Constant Michel born January 30, 1850 at Auteuil France. It praises him as the ablest commander of the French army and recalls his St Cyr education and a severe leg wound at the siege of Paris.
The record lists ages and careers of several public figures including General Michel rising to vice president of the superior council of war in Paris as secretary to General Billot in early years. It also notes birthdays for Rose Melville Jacob M Dickinson Rev Dr Charles W Smith Henri Rochefort Albert Estopinal Gen J Warren Keifer and features Bucklen’s Arnica Salve advertisement.
A combined offer presents Uncle Remus magazine for one year and the Athens Daily Banner for six months for 2.50 dollars. Readers are urged to subscribe now.
Athens markets show quiet, middling activity as rain continues in the area. In New York cotton, prices hovered with unchanged tendencies, while previous and closing figures were not fully disclosed due to the weather disruption.
A framed display outside a Broad Street business shows Indian arrow heads and flint bits along with gravel containing free gold. The arrow heads were found in Madison County on Broad River near Taller Hill. Locals say more relics of this kind exist nearby.
J. S. Donahue of South Haven Michigan, a Civil War captain and lighthouse keeper, credits Electric Bitters with curing kidney trouble chills and improving his sight. At seventy he reports good health after years of poor remedies and endorses the product for dyspepsia indigestion and liver and kidney issues. Available for 50 cents at local stores.
Atlanta reports wholesale thefts of plumbing from vacant homes with lead pipe elbows faucets and even enameled washstands and two bathtubs stolen. Police arrested two suspects who won t reveal sources amid signs of organized gangs. Real estate support for protective efforts appears lacking.
An advertisement warns that la grippe can lead to pneumonia and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a cure. It quotes R E Fisher of Washington Kansas who says the product relieved a severe lagrippe after three bottles. Available in the yellow package at all druggists.
The Demonthenian Literary Society held a chapel contest to pick a representative for February 21 founding celebrations of Phi Kappa and Memesthenian. Columbus senior Brantley Chappelle won, with his speech on International Conciliation. W. A. Mann of Milner chosen as master of ceremonies. Phi Kappa contest occurs tomorrow.
A young girl rides horseback at midnight to warn villagers of a fearsome forest fire in the Catskills and save lives. The tale sits beside an advertisement for Dr King's New Discovery claiming to cure lung trouble, coughs, and pneumonia with testimonials and trial bottles offered.
Washington reports Secretary of State Knox approved Dr David Lubin delegate to the Rome based International Institute of Agriculture to be absent March 15 to May 1. He will attend the Southern Commercial Congress in Nashville April 8 to 10 and then conduct state conferences on the Raiffeisen cooperative rural credit system aiding German peasant farmers.
An ad claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy wards off croup attacks and calms fears once coughing begins. It asserts thousands of mothers use it successfully and that the product is sold by all.
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