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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1913
Page
4
A collection of town notes covers remittance options for papers, carrier reliability, spring cleanup, Easter fashion, public park hopes, bean planting dates, baseball practice, historic landmarks, lectures on Japan playgrounds, crop prospects, Ohio dress laws, courthouse funding, and local construction plans for the school additions. The piece underscores civic progress, community events, and upcoming civic projects in Athens.
A group of prominent Athens women drives a campaign to beautify and improve city school grounds. Tomorrow at Seney-Stovall Chapel Luc Cobb Institute, Van Evrie Kilpatrick of New York will address the movement and show world garden pictures. Kilpatrick, president of the National School Garden Association, aims to inspire local support for better ideas, order, and love of nature in youth.
A historical note marks Hon. William Jennings Bryan's birthday as he turns beyond fifty. The article extols his long public career and influence as secretary of state and a leading political figure. It urges Bryan to learn to keep still, noting he rarely does and that walking and talking are currently his chosen activities.
Wireless telegraphy may replace lighthouses and buoys, with self-operating gear at new French coast stations to warn ships in fog. A complete outfit costs about 100 dollars, needs no operator, and uses automatic signals to help vessels determine position from two stations within range.
A playful verse fragment contrasts well known figures with the practical man and his team, the plow and the mule, introducing a rural labor scene in a folksy register. The excerpt centers on a traditional agricultural motif amid a string of familiar character sketches.
March 19 marks the births and deaths of notable figures including Thomas McKean born Londonderry Pennsylvania in 1734 and David Livingstone born Wantyre Scotland in 181 to 1873. It also notes Lafayette’s Savannah banquet 1857 Lucknow capture 1858 and Godfrey Weitzel surrender of Richmond in 1865. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz born March 19 1849 rose to Grand Admiral and imperial navy secretary.
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan makes his final day in Washington and heads to Lincoln Nebraska his hometown for a celebration honoring his fifty third birthday. He will be gone about ten days on his travels stopping to speak at several places including twice on St Patrick s Day.
Georgia State College of Agriculture warns farmers to expect the boll weevil entering sw Georgia, urging modern farming methods. Advice includes soil prep, soil needs, early maturing disease resistant cotton, crop rotation, lime use, and thorough field cleanup. Extension service and USDA support urged to combat the pest.
The Georgia State College of Agriculture has issued several important bulletins for farmers including topics on cotton seed meal as feed hog cholera and preventive serum boys corn club work cotton experiments lime uses in Georgia outlines of extension school lectures girls club work and extension school lectures. The bulletin on outlines of extension school lectures is described as a practical handbook of useful farming information for every Georgia farmer.
The article notes wireless station reach above 5000 miles at Ft. Myer near Washington, showcases electrically equipped coal mines in Nova Scotia, electric motor pumps in Texas, and 250 000 hydro electric power in Eastern Nebraska. It mentions ozone used to preserve meats in Germany and cites a nostalgic polish solution at J L Arnold's. It observes self starters in gasoline autos and widespread adoption of electric systems.
A historical examination of Alpine mountaineering hazards and amateur climber risks. It notes the high European toll this season, cites Austrian and German tourists as especially reckless, and warns of crevasses snow cornices and avalanches. Emphasizes rope use and tripling up for safety.
In Cortina and the Alps, climbers die regularly from falls and avalanches while guides and seasoned mountaineers risk their lives to save others. A notable tale recalls a rope rescue where the guide’s quick split with the ridge saved two climbers, and an avalanche survivor who melted snow with his breath to escape. A lone climber, trapped in a crevasse, awaited rescue and joked about being saved when found.
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