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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1911
Page
11
The Athens Daily Banner outlines subscription rates and payment options, requests prompt delivery complaints to the business office, and states no carrier collects payments. It also notes telephones and a special notice about carrier conduct. Various local and national items follow, including politics, education, infrastructure, and public works during 1910.
George H. Denny, president of Washington and Lee University, has accepted the presidency of the University of Alabama at age forty one. Alabama officials praise the choice, believing he will advance the university’s prosperity, while Washington and Lee must now seek a new executive head.
A critique urges Southern newspapers to stop publishing war era reminiscences that mock Jefferson Davis and misstate Civil War facts. It argues for fair, accurate history and warns that biased or slanderous content harms Southern leaders and readers.
The piece urges a national crusade against pellagra, noting it spread mainly in the South with eleven states reporting cases. It criticizes limited medical knowledge, cites Savannah’s Marine Hospital Service, and calls Congress to appropriate $50,000 for research to identify the disease’s cause and countermeasures.
The piece surveys political maneuvering in 1912 era politics with Rhode Island and Massachusetts conventions, candidacies for governor and senator, Woodrow Wilson bloc moves, Maine direct primaries, and national issues shaping upcoming elections. Notable names include Ira B. Jones, Knute Nelson, J. D. Billard, Penrose, Oliver, and Bailey, along with Eugene Ives and Dean Worcester.
October 1 1240 original St Pauls Cathedral London dedication. 1746 Muhlenberg born in Trappe Pa died Philadelphia October 4 1807. 1800 Treaty of Ildefonso Spain ceded Louis to France. 1817 Bank of Montreal issued first notes. 1883 US domestic letter postage cut to two cents. 1891 Leland Stanford Jr University opened to students. 1898 Peace Conference US Spain began in Paris. 1904 Sir William V Harcourt died. Born 1827. 1910 Napoleon Boward dies in Jacksonville Florida born 1837.
A short quip from Success Magazine recalls London newsboys enjoying a yearly Thames outing. A boy steps into the water and a companion jokes that he is dirty, to which the swimmer replies he missed the train last year.
Chronology notes several historical milestones on October 2. It lists births and deaths including King Richard III 1452 and Major Andre 1780, colonial and American events such as 1710 Port Royal conquest and 1729 Pennsylvania Gazette first issue, culminating with naval movements in 1908.
Sir James Whitney premier of Ontario was born October 2, 1843 in Williamsburgh Int. He studied in Cornwall public schools, was called to the bar in 1876 and entered politics in 1886. He served as leader of the Opposition from 1896 and became premier in 1905, also holding attorney general and later president of the executive council. He received a knighthood from the Prince of Wales during the 1908 Quebec Tercentenary and has earned honorary degrees from Canadian universities.
A child named Small Billy asks for a donkey ride at the seashore. His mother declines and his father is urged to give him a ride on his back to keep him quiet, in a brief family scene.
Within weeks death removed Roger Q. Mills of Texas and Thomas H. Carter of Montana, two eminent party leaders. Arthur P. Gorman, nominated by Democrats for Maryland governor, has served eight years in the state senate and attracted attention for his strong personality and lineage among national leaders.
A city minister often travels leaving his wife and child guarded by parishioners. A sudden departure left them without protection. The wife kept watch early evening, then carried the daughter to bed. The child asked for better arrangements for future absences.
A budding playwright reads his work to friends when one listener falls asleep. He protests for an opinion, and the sleepy man replies that sleep is an opinion, a witty remark highlighted by London Tit-Bits.
A sharp proofreader on a small Middle Western daily dismisses a prank by a reporter who ran a piece about Willie Brown, the boy shocked by a live wire, then received a teasing note asking which is the west end of a day. The reply is quick and witty, the end where the sun sets.
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