Public notices and worldly items from Athens Georgia
Special notice lists several items: no carrierCollect subscriptions only via regular collector or office, seventeen days to election, Georgia Auburn game on Thanksgiving, real estate deals in Athens, streetcar labor troubles in Augusta, concern over brides leaving Athens, Turkey War chal lenge, four county fair in the enterprising city, Belgian railway manager stole nearly six million dollars, University of Georgia attendance high, missing McGraw world series front page, Uncle Jim Woodward a mayoral nominee, fall leaves turning, presidential election prospects, Roosevelt and Wilson campaign notes, Roosevelt to recover from shooting, dry goods wholesalers oppose parcels post, soil survey work aiding Georgia farmers, soil analysis key to crop choice, corn yields contest results less than ideal but method sound.
American spending favors pleasure over charity in national report
The piece cites a report from the American Federation on Sex Hygiene showing large sums spent on church work and foreign missions, soft drinks and candy, and vast tolls on liquor and tobacco. It suggests redirecting money to better lines of expenditure for personal and family benefit.
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American Federation
Magnanimous Woodrow Wilson halts speeches for Roosevelt
The article praises President Wilson for canceling campaign dates until Mr. Roosevelt recovers from his wound. It argues the move, showing Wilson's magnanimity, ends presidential campaigning for the rest of the season. It notes Taft meanwhile has ceased speaking.
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Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Wilson
Taft
Republic
Uncle Pail's Osophies and the Irony of Work Poverty
A fragment from Uncle Pail's Osophies contrasts work and nonwork with a ten cent daily difference. It mocks wealth and urges value in honest labor while noting poetic lines about outward pleasure and inner duty. The piece weaves satire with reflections on earnings, investments, and virtue.
A Cheer-In Up Note From MytOwn Column
A reader notes that complaints fail in rain, wind, or hard times. If one’s heart is in tune with heaven and hope, there is no use growling or whining about money, luck, or being treated poorly. The verse urges cheerful resilience through seasons of life.
Casgarets Best Bowels Cleansing Heading
An old advertisement touts Casgarets Best Bowel Cleanser as a cure for indigestion and torpid liver. It claims overnight cleansing with a 10 cent box, promises long lasting relief, and urges care for children, while ending with note of new Southern industries.
Campaign finance probe highlights cost of presidential races
Senate subcommittee chaired by Sen. Moses E Clapp of Minnesota reports on the high costs to start a candidate and fund subsequent campaigns. The panel, with Oliver, Jones, Prynter and Pomerene, investigates Roosevelt 1904 and Taft 1908 campaigns and portrays money as essential from nomination through election.
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Senate
Moses E. Clapp
Minnesota
Qglapp
Oliver
Pennsylvania
Jones
Washington
Prynter
Kentucky
Pomerene
Ohio
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Senator Clapp
Exigle
Indiana
Wisconsin Law School
St. Croix County
Wis
St. Paul
United States Senate
C. K. Davis
Tact Over Talent, A Lesson on Leadership
A compact reflection notes that tact surpasses talent and that people respond more to guided leadership than forceful direction. It emphasizes subtle influence, patience, and understanding as keys to guiding others.
A Persistent Abbe and the Pyrenees Road Quest
L Freeston recounts Jeliz Armand cure of St. Martin-Lys who carved a passage through Gorge de Pierre Lys to aid his poverty stricken parish. After five years of tolling, workers pierced the tunnel later named Le Trou du Cure. Napoleon praised the brave priest who saved a muleteer and he died a revered abbé buried with the Legion of Honor.
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The
Pyrenees
L. Freeston
Passes of the
Jeliz Armand
St. Martin-Lys
Pierre-Lys
Belgranes
Napoleon
Armand
the Legion of Honor
Legends About Dew and Its Many Beliefs
Curious beliefs about dew describe its origin as tears of angels and souls in purgatory shed for human sins. Dew is said to cure diseases and serve as a beauty wash, with tales of feeding birds to learn their language and witches collecting dew to starve cows, among other folk customs.
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Earth
The
Journal of Religious Psychology
Wongrowits
Bold Dragomiroff Rally Sparks Turkish Retreat
In the Shipka pass during heavy fighting General Dragomiroff leads from the front. He walks the ridge amid bullets and taunts his weary battalion before urging a charge, the troops rallying to reclaim ground and drive the Turks back.
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Shipka Pass
Dragomiroff
Unexpected Court Confrontation Over Servant Board Wages
A London court hears a case where a mistress admits dismissing a servant for lack of notice. The judge testsboard wages with witty bargaining, asking amounts from four pence to eight shillings weekly before settling on eight shillings as a month’s board. The exchange ends with the judge dictating payment.
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London
London Mail
Cute baby jokes about Hawkins heir in Slabsides talk
In a humorous exchange Slabsides remarks on Hawkins' baby trying to reach his toes. Hawkins replies the infant takes after him, quipping that the child is trying to make both ends meet. The entry ends with an ad for houses to rent in Lyndon.
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Slabsides
Hawkins
Cickens
Harper's
Story of the Sextant and the Imitation of Invention
The piece recounts how Thomas Godfrey, a Philadelphia glazier, conceived the sextant after a chance observation of the sun’s reflection in a water-filled bucket. It notes John Hadley’s earlier work, Godfrey’s priority, and Harper’s Weekly context praising the device for mariners.
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Godfrey
Thomas Godfrey
Sedfrey
John Hadley
Newton
Hadley
Philadelphia
Harper’s Weekly
The Simple Life Aborigines Break Camp With Ease
An Australian Aboriginal family packs quickly for holidays as they travel to other camps. The man carries spears and shield while the woman handles the youngest child and digging stick. Girls tend puppies. packing takes two minutes and houses show at a glance who has used them.
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Messrs
Spencer and Gillen
Australia
Ghost and garret prank echo in city hall concert hall
A janitor recounts a spooky scare in a famous concert hall after finding a blind piano tuner at work on stage. The scene shifts to reflections on hostel and inn terms in old times, with snippets from London Globe and Cleveland Plain Dealer about social customs and marriage chatter.
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New York Sun
Quotation and Proverb Referenced in Odd Exchange
A fragment shows a dialogue about a “queer smell after the automobiles” and a joking reply that it comes from “the road searching.” It pairs a Sanskrit proverb about not knowing one’s own defects with a stray line from Calves bt plants sold and a phona code 322-1.
New churn design lets barrel and paddles turn opposite
An Illinois inventor describes a churn where the barrel revolves while internal paddles rotate oppositely, enabling two actions at once and doubling the churn rate. Also included are Rice Croquettes instructions using rice, milk, eggs, butter and a sugar dusting with marmalade or curry sauce served.
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Illinois
Pea Soup Recipe Instructions
This recipe lists ingredients: split peas bacon onion milk salt pepper bay leaf and describes a four hour cook time. It instructs blending bacon and onion, adding to peas, boiling until ready, straining near serving, heating milk, and seasoning to taste.
Delicate Grapes and Rice Dessert Recipe
A refined dish uses one third cup rice two cups grapes one half cup water and two spoonfuls sugar. Rice and sugar are sprinkled over grapes in a deep dish then water added. Cover and simmer two hours in a slow oven. Serve warm as sauce or cold as pudding.
Scalloped Oysters and Old Fashioned Indian Pudding
Scalloped Oysters directions mix milk pepper cracker crumbs and butter layered with oysters and liquor bake one hour. Old Fashioned Indian Pudding scald cornmeal with milk butter and molasses bake five hours or boil for batter flexibility.
Winter Tomatoes And Sour Milk Doughnuts Recipe Notes
Winter tomatoes are preserved in lard in stone jars stored in a cellar with instructions to reheat and reuse the remaining liquid. Sour milk doughnuts use sour milk, soda, melted butter, ginger and nutmeg, with sugar, salt, and flour plus baking powder to form the dough.
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H. J. Rowe
Athens Daily Banner Ie
Georgia Auburn
Athens
Augusta
Turkey
University of Georgia
McGraw
Jim Woodward
United States Navy
Uncle Sam
John Bull
Wheelsalers’ Association of Dry | Goods And*nations
Atlanta
State College of Agriculture
Georgia
MR. Wilson
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
Detroit
France
Falmouth
Portland
Wasp
Virginia
England
Frederick William III
Morgan
Lexington
Oregon’ Pioneer Association
University of Oregon At
Eugene
Porto Rico
Hankow
Hubert E. Jernigham
Hubert E. Jerningham
University of
Honduras
Mauritius
Trinidad and Tobago
Hubert
House of Commons
Berwick
Baron ‘Stratheden
David C. Barrow
E. Dana Durand
United States Census Bureau
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
United States
MytOwn
D. G Bickers
Elite
Lyric
Allen-Kenna Stock Company
Colonial
M. E. Clapp
A. B. Anderson
Indianapolis
Frank M. Ryan
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Ortie E
Frank M. Brya
McManigal
McNamaras
Los Angeles
Charles W. Miller
John W. Kern
Willam N. Harding
Ironworkers’ Union
Frank Buchanan
Congress
Intac
Buchanan
Ryan
Am Parks
New York
Mr. Clumazile
Lyndon
London Globe
George
Laura
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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