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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1913
Page
4
The Athens Banner edition contains editorials urging citizens to speak well of Athens, support city improvement, and back rotation of crops in Georgia. It also discusses political figures like Parker, Sulzer, and Hawthorne, along with notes on weather, currency reform, and the Panama Canal project.
The piece notes substantial U S progress in army health since the Spanish American War, highlighting anti typhoid serum use and improved field hospital management. It reports twelve thousand soldiers in Texas City with no typhoid cases and over one thousand medical and surgical cases with only minor operations and no infections or deaths.
The piece argues steel passenger cars reduce fatalities, cites trials and railroads already converting. Representative Allen seeks a 1918 deadline to replace wooden coaches, but critics warn costs over a billion dollars and five years is tight. Railroads will move at their own pace as finances allow.
Atlanta Judge W D Ellis urged preachers to curb hasty marriages amid divorce cases. He warned ministers denouncing beer may overlook lawful marriages and noted many couples marry without full options, suggesting divorce issues run deeper than ceremonies.
The piece lists October 11 historical notes from 1684 to 1896 including Frontenac’s governorship, Arthur Phillip’s birth, the Camperdown battle, the first steam ferry between New York and Hoboken, and Quebec Parliament building destruction by dynamite. It also mentions notable deaths, editor shifts, and a list of birthday cheers for prominent figures.
Richard Lee Metcalfe born October 11 1861 near Upper Alton Illinois. He started in a country newspaper office at Popular Bluff Missouri and moved to Omaha in the late 1890s where he met William J Bryan.
A Canadian newspaper column critiques Ian Hay's Happy-Go-Lucky and Jas May's The Right Stuff, praising their wholesome humor and engaging plots. It notes reminiscences of Barrie, Calfornia yearning, and previews Stewart Edward White's Epic of California series with the first book Gold, from Doubleday Page Company.
An old advertisement warns that catarrh can lead to serious health issues and promotes Hyomei as a quick, inexpensive cure sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons with a money back guarantee. The ad also notes a separate line about assassination plots or espionage in Japan affecting higher officials.
Report notes Taft and Speaker Joseph Cannon did not discuss the forthcoming presidential race during their latest meeting. Observers say the encounter focused on policy and legislative matters rather than campaign strategy.
Taos pueblo in New Mexico appears unchanged through centuries, with 500 residents living in terraced casas grandes built around the Taos creek. The community guards its Taos dialect and customs, conducts its own laws, and holds annual harvest feasts from September onward.
Two Austrian watchmakers create a wind driven clock powered by air rushing through a wall pipe. A turbine shaped wheel converts the air current to motive power and a clever regulator keeps the clock running at a steady pace.
A fragment notes Henry of Navarre urging followers to follow his plume while critics quip the banner is not as conspicuous as an early straw hat. The line hints at satire over leadership and visibility in a royal context.
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