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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1913
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner advertises subscription rates and carrier policies, urges readers to support local merchants, and discusses Athens growth, the commission form debate, and the Georgia Auburn game loss. It promotes boosting Athens and keeping money local amid civic planning.
The Georgia pension rolls show an imminent decline as the average Confederate pensioner nears sixty nine and the widow cohort exceeds sixty. With no new names allowed and the death rate rising, the state will see fewer pensioners in coming years, though Georgia remains liberal in its support.
The article argues against alien land ownership, citing state laws and citizen concerns. It notes Texas investors buying large tracts and suburban plots, claiming land as a stable, valuable investment and predicting rapid Texas development with vast returns for English syndicates.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce presents a Junior chapter for high school students to train future boosters. The plan aims to foster local patriotism and public spirit, turning youths into effective advocates for Atlanta and other cities like Athens to follow the model.
A dated chronicle lists events and birthdays across years from 1650 to modern notes. It marks Long Parliament asserting supremacy over colonies, deaths of notable persons like Admiral Augustus Keppel and poet William Morris, and birthdays including Lord Norreys and Prince Maurice of Savtenberg. The piece blends historical milestones with birthday tributes to various figures.
A quirky fragment describes making a rich crust apple pie with sugar butter and cinnamon bake until golden. Also includes a sewing tip about stitching hems with finer thread for durability. Additional notes mention a short cake recipe and advice on reviving feathers using a feather brush and box of comments.
In a verse from October, Dame Nature sleeps amid green robes. A silent painter arrives with a magic brush and splashes scarlet orange and iris hues across the garb. The awakened dame wonders whose dress has been so vividly changed by the unseen artist.
A fragmentary report describes David Lloyd George and his wife on holiday in the Welsh mountains at Moel Heibog. The scene portrays political figures amid rough terrain with unclear context and garbled captions.
Julian Hawthorne delivers a stark poem titled Punishment that portrays a panoramic prison scene. The verse depicts eight hundred figures filing past in uniforms marked U.S. and two, symbolically bearing guilt. It laments murder, robbery, falsehood, and lust, urging collective atonement as Time's jailer.
A garbled 19th century column mentions Exator Lnatork James A Ogorman of New York among noted galf exponents and diplomats. It cites Colonel Robert M Thompson, Colonel J Hamilton Lewis, Senator Lee S Overman, Ollie M James, Dr Harvey Wiley, and Colonel Henry Watterson in a flurry of anecdotes. Also promotes Electric Bitters and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with ad-like notices and cautions about sedative cough medicines.
A cluttered miscellaneous page parodies social blurbs and jokes. It sketches a nervous traveler asking for a berth in a sleeping car and a quip about a sister born before a brother. It includes a governess joke, a parent child exchange on reason and instinct, a marital limit gag, and a playful line about a leap year man hunt.
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