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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1912
Page
4
The text notes Athens will host the Buffalo baseball team on the seventeenth with big, jolly George Stallings as manager. It also mentions various contemporaries from politics, weather, and social events, reflecting a lively period piece with scattered observations on suffrage, revolutions, and city life.
The renowned naturalist John Boroughs visits Athens Georgia where locals praise his lifelong search for truth in nature. He departs soon for friends further south, leaving behind admiration from scholars, leaders, and citizens who value his poetry in field study and his humane approach to science.
An editorial warns Colonel Roosevelt will face tests of nerve as he pursues a Moses role. It argues his audacity draws popularity but risks exposing egotism, breaking faith, and demanding explanations in challenging, nerve racking situations.
The Georgia political scene is quiet with little activity as farmers delay campaigns to tend fields. Voters will be hard to reach once farm work begins and merchants face a busy crop year, leaving little time for political outreach.
A reminiscence on The N P M and a memory fragment from Sir John de Basset-Wootten mentioning Engleberg. The piece shifts to urban raininess noting shelters for streetcar workers near Pete’s Place and the College Broad corner. It discusses rainfall, transfer points, and potential city cooperation for shelters over trolley wires at multiple transfer and waiting points in Athens.
A compact list of historical events tied to March 6 across years. Highlights include Washington’s Newport reception in 1781, the 1900 Red Ash mine disaster in West Virginia, and the 1911 U S troop movements to the Mexican border, with other notable milestones in between.
The Duke of Hamilton born March 6 1862 is the premier Scottish peer with nearly a score of titles. He became thirteenth duke in 1895 after a series of deaths altered succession. He serves as Keeper of Holyrood Palace and owns Hamilton Place noted for its black staircase.
Edward Patrick Hartney 61, Registrar in the Dominion House of Commons, and Teddy's outspoken nature are noted as influencing written and spoken discourse. Legal counsel says those who register today remain eligible to vote in the April 3 bond election.
An ad promotes Vinci cod liver oil and blood purifier as the best spring medicine to raise strength and appetite. It features a testimonial from P. O. Barker of Bowens Mill Georgia and guarantees satisfaction with a money back offer. Palmer & Sons Drugists of Athens Georgia sell the product.
George W. Koons of Lawton Michigan reports Dr Detchons 8 Relief for Rheumatism gave his wife major relief. She could not move her hands or feet for two months and had to be lifted. After starting the remedy she improved rapidly and by Wednesday could sit up dress herself and walk to the breakfast table. Sold by Citizens Pharmacy at Clay ton and Jackson Streets.
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