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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1914
Page
4
The Athens daily notes election talk with M. L. Brittain's candidacy and local figures like Solicitor General McMillan, while a cotton man predicts higher output and prices despite weather swings. It also mentions reforms, mediations, and district concerns in Georgia.
A quoted meditation on resisting violent impulses and embracing restraint during extreme heat. The piece extols keeping cool as prudent behavioral advice, urging readers not to dwell on heat, to avoid extreme reactions, and to embrace calm under scorching conditions. It cautions against overreacting to heat and emphasizes mindfulness and self-control.
The federal government gives vast attention to livestock and crops while neglecting children. Georgia schools face yearly teacher elections and replacements. Trustees must carefully choose and regularly audit teachers, guarding against harmful influences or bias toward Southern history and values.
The Savannah News notes the shift to near year round sessions under Taft and Wilson times. It argues extra sessions dilute focus, push lawmakers to online rounds, and may require multiple representatives per district as eighteen to twenty months of work fill a year.
The piece argues that suffrage plans threaten the South by extending the Fifteenth Amendment to all black voters and discusses the National Association's stance against white women only voting. It cites Bristow amendment powers, Borah’s repeal proposal, and warns Southern civilization must be protected as politics shift. It also notes Davis's anniversary and calls for respectful remembrance.
A report from Macon recounts the founding of Georgia’s first Anti-Suffrage Club by women. They organized at the Dempsey Hotel on May 22 to oppose a congressional bill granting the ballot to all women, color notwithstanding. A telegram from Senator Hoke Smith warned that passage could not eliminate the Negro vote.
The text explains that the house fly uses long feathery antennae to collect minute particles of food and that the stiff hairs on its body harbor disease germs spread by the fly wherever it goes.
A historical note describes Macua women in Lourenzo Marques using a waterproof enamel paste. The paste forms a white cosmetic that remains pristine for over a month and is prepared from regional materials via secret methods known to a few elders.
P Amaury Talbot documents a secret society named Ekkpo Njawhaw in Eket Nigeria. Its Ibiri Bong juju summons aid to harm a named enemy by leaf offering thrown into a stream, believed to carry the curse to the shrine where it will drag the targeted person to death.
The phola or boring clam of the northwest coast is a curious bivalve living in rocky shores. It bores into ledges with a rasp like shell, feeds on infusoria, and becomes a delicacy at summer resorts. Clams are blasted with dynamite in some areas and shipped to rail centers.
In France mushrooms are cultivated in subterranean quarries at depths of 60 to 200 feet. Quarries offer stable conditions and profits due to steady temperature and lack of drafts, with ventilation provided. Beds use manure topped by fine soil, spawn introduced near the surface, arranged in rows eight to ten inches apart, about 20 to 25 inches wide and tall.
Experts report the sixteenth century Etampes tower in France has not shifted a millimeter in three centuries. A 1639 examination by Cardinal Richelieu was compared to present data, showing no measurable movement.
The Insurance Press reports 1918 life insurance payments in the United States and Canada totaled 646,550,000 with 418,300,000 paid for death claims and related benefits. Albert F. Holden’s policy was the year’s largest claim at 200,000, and Ballington Sanders Walker Jr. received 236,334 for his beneficiaries. Georgia’s top cities paid major claims, led by Atlanta at 993,500 and Macon at 587,750.
The article details aubergine as a rich soft shade for dresses and afternoon gowns using materials like faille silk and chiffon. It lists pattern numbers 8294 and 8313, sizes 2 to 42, and requires 25 or more yards of fabric for specific outfits. Patterns cost 15 cents each with order instructions.
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