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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1913
Page
5
A householder demonstrates practical uses of electric stoves and irons, showing how to cook breakfast for a family on a disk stove and skillet. The piece also recounts a mansion owner’s reluctance to wiring, then embracing electric light and Edison Mazda lamps as a modernizer with no interior damage.
Atlanta report from the Georgia State Board of Health urges parents to avoid hereditary disease risks when planning families. It stresses that healthy parents produce healthier children, outlines sanitary home care, proper feeding, isolation of illnesses, and details disinfecting and burial precautions, plus free vaccines for measles and related diseases.
About 300 hunters gathered near Moses Lake Washington to drive rabbits across Great Northern tracks. A freight train stopped as the rabbits crossed, delaying the engine and prompting the crew to wait twenty minutes. More than 2,000 rabbits were killed and later frozen for shipment east.
Lawyer J D Bedle of New York among Americans arriving in London aboard the Kron Prinzessin Cecilie boat train sails for America on the Southampton bound vessel by Wednesday. He prefers crossing the Atlantic for an hour's talk with correspondents to waiting for belated mails. Advertise your wants.
Weather notes showers and cotton price updates across months with figures for January through December and adjacent periods. The data shows open and close values, with notable entries like February and March prices and a prior period summary.
Washington June 10 The average of prices received by producers of staple crops increased about 4.2 percent from May 1 to June 1. Compared with the same period a year ago the rise was 1.2 percent and the May trends show an 8.4 percent higher than 1909. Meat animals prices fell about 3.7 percent from April 15 to May 1.
Special to the Banner reports Macon Georgia June 10 that Judge Emory Speer will retire from the United States Court for the Southern District of Georgia in 1918. At age 70 he will have served on the bench long enough for retirement on full salary. He opposes proposed district territory division. Speer was appointed to the judiciary in 1885 after four years in Congress and two as district attorney.
Baseball results from multiple leagues show varied outcomes and postponements. Notable games include Birmingham 4 Atlanta 6 in four and a half innings, Nashville 11 Chattanooga 1, New Orleans 2 Montgomery 5, and Columbus 7 Savannah 4. Other matches feature Pittsburg 5 Brooklyn 4 and Boston 7 over 11 innings.
Washington June 10 Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois a noted orator has accepted an invitation to deliver the commencement address at the University of Georgia on June 18. The invitation came through Senators Smith and Bacon of Georgia. Lewis and Smith are old friends with Smith presenting Lewis credentials to the Senate when he was received as a minister.
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