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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1912
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists rates for home delivery and notes carriers must not collect payments. A SECAL NOTICE warns against carrier sales. The column then roams through weather chatter, politics, and local mentions including Georgia rain, Taft and Roosevelt, and the Clarke Rifles at Camp Pettus.
The Senate passes a 35 to 23 resolution rebuking the president for attempting to influence senators to retain Lorimer. It declares the executive must not interfere with Senate membership decisions and warns against using the presidency as a tool to secure legislation, urging restraint in future actions.
Commissioner H. M. Stanley seeks legislative action to empower his department. He proposes compulsory education to address child labor, limits on workers exposed to dangerous fumes, bans on under eighteen going to houses of prostitution, and restrictions on under sixteen appearing in moving picture stages. He argues the department will actively pursue reforms rather than be a figurehead.
The Constitution discusses supporting the so called one horse farmer to enable him to acquire land for a living. It critiques the crop sharing system that prises cotton toll, argues for home food production, and says such reform would keep revenue in state and boost overall prosperity.
July 18 dates mark events from 1790 Adam Smith’s death to later figures such as 1863 Col Gould Shaw’s fatal fort attack and 1909 Don Carlos death. The list notes births and deaths across politics, theater, invention, and royalty, including Lincoln calls in 1864 and the Atlantic and St Lawrence railroad opening in 1853.
The article chronicles Rose Pastor Stokes born July 18 1879 in Avruch Suvoik Russia later in London and the Jewish Free School. Her family moved to the United States in 1890 where she worked as a cigar maker in Cleveland for three years while pursuing education. She moved into journalism in 1901 with a New York Jewish newspaper and rose to assistant editor highlighting sociological topics.
A bulging roll of notable anniversaries and birthdays includes Miss Ethel Roosevelt turning 21, J. Phelps Stokes’ marriage to her in 1905, Prince Victor Napoleon turning 50, Bishop Key at 43, W G Grace aging 64, Alfred H. Brooks 41, John R. Farr 55, and James Young 46. The writeup also notes socialism tied to a writer rising to leadership and a prominent settlement worker.
President Taft sent to the Senate nominations of Sherman P. Allen of Vermont to be assistant secretary of the treasury and Luther Conant Jr. of New York to be commissioner of corporations. Conant replaces Herbert Knox Smith who resigned to join Col. Roosevelts new party.
Weather continues with showers across the region. Cotton trades between 12 1 2 and 12 3 4 cents per pound, reflecting today’s market move and damp conditions.
Yesterday’s results show Southern games with Chattanooga 1 New Orleans 4, Memphis 4 Birmingham 1. South Atlantic: Macon 1 Albany 0, Macon 2 Albany 3, Columbia 0 Columbus 1, Columbia 1 Columbus 7, Savannah 0 Jacksonville 12. National: New York 10 Pittsburg 2, Boston Cincinnati Iain, Philadelphia 6 Chicago 5, Brooklyn 7 St. Louis 1. American: Chicago 1 Boston 0, Chicago 3 Boston 7, St Louis 0 Washington 1, St Louis 7 Washington 6, Detroit 13 Philadelphia 1, Detroit 4 Philadelphia 5, Cleveland 5 New York 1. International: Buffalo 7 Rochester 2.
In moist conditions the Georgia Railroad beat the Shoe Men 4 to 3. The game featured slow pace and futile base running, with coaching resembling Hughey Jennings. Attendance pleased managers as standings show Clothiers and Ga R R leading a tight league.
A bitter wrangle among Blease Burns Felder Nicholls Reed Porter and others inflames the press. The Associated Press halted a quotation heavy story mid word and ordered telegraph editors to discard the piece.
Paul Harber of the Commerce Observer arrives in Athens wearing a badge for the Weekly Press Association of Georgia meeting. More than 200 editors attend from north Georgia and nearby regions. G. M. Methvin is president, P. T. McCutcheon vice president, W. A. Shackelford secretary, and Judge B. T. Moseley treasurer. LaGrange awarded 1913 convention. The event includes excursions, a banquet, and speeches. A rail delay and a wreck affect travel. Harber reports the meeting as among the best ever held.
The Georgia House approved a proposed constitutional amendment creating Bleckley County from Pulaski County by a 131 to 27 vote. Debate was lively with strong arguments and notable bitterness in the discussion led by Mr. Deese of Pulaski.
Atlanta July 17 John M Slaton president of the senate and candidate for governor paid his 200 assessment to the state executive committee today receiving the coin He is the only candidate to pay so far though several days remain before the deadline The Georgian campaign fund draws in unusual capital态 Athens B P O E No 790 meets Wednesdays at Broad and Lumpkin streets.
Willem Oglesby, son of South Georgia railway president J W Oglesby, acted as a fireman on a passenger train to Adel and faced a crowd of striking engineers. He displayed a gun to deter threats and had the train return to Quitman. Tracks outside Adel were greased to halt service, while Adel officials promise no violence. Traffic across the line was halted with one train reaching Adel. President Oglesby offered to negotiate directly with the strikers, while F A Burgess of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers arrived to handle talks.
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