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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
5
A Calgary area experiment uses a nighttime hydraulic system to erode a hill a thousand cubic yards per night. Water at high pressure from a giant nozzle and 100 HP motor displaces 110,000 cubic yards of dirt over about 20 days to terrace the hill and fill an old river channel.
A pure white moose was killed by trapper Ezra Higgins on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. The skin and head arrived in Seattle aboard the Northland from Cordova after secrecy about the animal’s fate. Thrinket Indians hold a myth that such albino moose embodies a maiden’s spirit, and the hunting of it may affect beliefs if more albinos remain unseen in the region.
A short study notes that many fishes exhibit parental care. The sea stickleback builds a pear shaped nest from weed threads and guards eggs. Ten spined stickleback nests attach to water plants and mold into a muff like shape. Catfish nest in old stovepipes. In species showing parental care the male leads nest building guarding eggs and rearing young.
Ernest Lemmy of St Pauls road in Peterborough watched his pet owl operate a piano. The bird pressed keys then listened, tried more notes, and seemed pleased with the sounds. It moved across the keyboard from treble to bass and back, discovering only the black and white keys produced sound.
The death of E. S. Welles in New York recalls his rise from poverty to wealth as the inventor of Rough on Rats. While starving with a partner, a single loaf fed rats and sparked a vow of vengeance. He then developed a widely known rat poison in an old Jersey City barn, achieving affluence in four years.
Public notices announce a Dill Will be introduced in the Georgia General Assembly for damages at Mitchell's bridge, plus bills to reform Clarke County roads board and Athens city government. Also listed are real estate foreclosures in Jackson and Clarke counties, with detailed parcel descriptions and sales set for early July 1913, including notices by Mary Buchwald as commissioner.
Notice of a local act to amend an act approved August 24 1872 authorizing Athens mayor and council to grade pave and improve streets and to levy assessments of up to one half the cost against benefiting real estate and streetrailroad property owners with fractions and boundaries to be determined by the city authorities.
Mrs Kate C O Farrell administratrix seeks leave to sell lands of the estate of A H O Farrell deceased. The application will be heard at ten o clock in the morning on the first Monday in July 1913 before R C Orr Ordinary.
An administrator in the county court seeks to liquidate estate assets under an order of the Court of Ordinary. The sale aims to settle debts and distribute remaining property according to the will and applicable probate law.
Open and close figures for New York cotton with scattered quotes such as 11.16 to 12.05 appear alongside Chicago quotations. The notice lists market details, times, and connections at Macon and Madison for rail routes, with contact numbers for information and depot agents R Bloodworth and H Hellner.
Land sale notice by administrator of Herman Smith in Athens to be held at court house door on first Tuesday in July. Appointments for year’s support and probate hearings scheduled by Clarke County Ordinary. Fraternal lodge meetings listed with times and officers for Athens area groups including Masons and Odd Fellows.
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