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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1910
Page
6
Public notice outlines subscription rates and delivery rules for the Athens Daily Banner. Miscellaneous items reference local events, politics, sports, and social notes including Roosevelts funeral, Knights Templar, and a push for Bible placements in hotels.
Dr. Schurman cautions that gifts to colleges with strings attached invite meddling by donor boards, urging trusteeship and outright endowments. The piece also cites Prof. Laughlin on high tariffs, military spending, and their role in rising prices and hard times for consumers.
A fifteen year old boy was hanged in Florida a short time ago. The Washington Times criticizes condemning Russia and China penal codes. The Odd Fellows meet in Athens with about three thousand citizens scheduled in ten days. Weather bureau officials in Washington note unusual spring conditions. An additional case reports a little girl struck by an auto in Atlanta. Athens notes no serious city accident despite many cars. Census disputes loom as state figures await final release. Cities and towns conduct their own censuses.
Baseball results from Mobile Montgomery and Birmingham show scores for Atlanta Memphis and Nashville games. Batteries credited to Stockdale Neal Dunn Mayer Matthews for Mobile and Atlanta with umpires Carpenter Fitzsimmons Rudderham Eaton. Local rental ad notes a front room for rent on Hill Street at $5.00 per month.
Athens reports middling cotton at 15 cents per pound in market notes from New York Cotton transactions. The brief item notes local prices aligned with nationwide trading and market activity in the commodity sector.
A historical date list marks May events including Mary Queen of Scots defeat at Langside in 1568, Jamestown settlement by the London Company expedition in 1607, Massachusetts flax and linen industry orders in 1640, Hudson Bay Company charter in 1670, Maria Theresa born in 1717, James Wright Georgia governor in 1760, public economy society in Philadelphia in 1817, Baltimore occupation by Federal troops in 1861, Batoche Canadian relief in 1885, Lord Aberdeen resignation in 1898, and Salt of Kansas vs Colorado irrigation case in 1907.
The Duchess of Hamilton, famed as one of England’s most beautiful women, was born May 13, 1878. Previously Nina Poore, she is married to the Duke of Hamilton, a former royal navy lieutenant who rose to premier Scottish peer and Hereditary Keeper of Holyrood Palace.
A sequence of month labels and numeric values appears, listing May through January with varying decimal prices such as 7.99 7.90 and 6.85 7.98, suggesting a data table or catalog of item prices across months.
Clarke County records reveal internal conflict as Chairman accuses Holman and Pittard of ousting Gamble and seizing county books. The dispute centers on offices, contracts, and rent, with legal threats and potential county treasury costs highlighted. Gamble’s term ends 1912 and lease on the office may expire 1911.
A statement from J. M. Hodgson asserts engineers Long and Mann are capable to oversee road work with subordinates. He criticizes Holman and Pittard and questions taxpayer approval of their actions.
Debate on muzzling dogs to protect children and the elderly spreads from Athens to Atlanta and statewide. A Georgia Chamber of Commerce push seeks a bill to muzzle all dogs for several months, citing England's success against hydrophobia. The proposal follows Dr. Stirling and health committee backing, to be raised in the next legislature.
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