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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1922
Page
6
Georgia freshmen coached by Bill White travel to Opelika for their third game of the season against Auburn. The hustling squad, led by standout Steven, aims to build on early form in a tough Southeastern match.
A fragment from a Athens page describes Roanilies looking impressive in practice. Luke Nelson makes a bold run through a defense coached by Stegeman. Kilpatrick has sharp dash moments, while Nolan Richardson shows speed and vision. The text also highlights Sage Bass and Moore on offense and Herict and Simonwitz in the backfield.
Larry Gantt argues for local cotton marketing and price setting to fit demand. He praises Wilkes county crop potential and stresses producing food and supplies locally to beat costly imported goods and freight. He condemns paying high prices for imported corn and meat while shipping cotton to cover debts.
Major Harris, retired Army officer and new head of the Military Science program at Athens High, praises cadets progress in regular drill. Uniforms will arrive soon and public dress parades are planned for Friday afternoons. Harris is noted as brother to Senator Harris and General Harris.
ATLANTA. Judge E. F. Thomas of the Atlanta municipal court won the Fulton superior court judgeship nomination by 1,838 votes in Tuesday's Democratic primary, with returns compiled by the Constitution. The vote tally shows Thomas 4,760, Walter McIreath 1,044, R. B. Blackburn of the race.
The text records a county unit vote in a senate race with totals noted as two and five, indicating a preliminary or partial tally among county units. The fragment provides no candidate names or jurisdictions beyond the county unit reference.
General John J. Pershing rode the Seaboard train through Athens at an early hour on Wednesday en route to New Orleans for the American Legion convention. He did not leave his car and was described as traveling in gold.
The general rode from the train to Fort McPherson, headquarters of the fourth army corps area, where Major-General David C. Shanks and Brigadier General F. L. Winn welcomed him. A troop review, inspection of Veterans Hospital No. 48, and a city drive were scheduled for later in the day.
In Hammond Indiana Hazel McNally 24 faced trial denying her husband Frank McNallys charge she murdered twins born last December She claimed the missing infants were dummy dolls mothered by her to satisfy his ambition to be no father Witnesses were prepared to testify to support either side Mrs McNally said she told her husband after marriage in April 1919 that she had undergone an operation at Green Bay Wisconsin.
In 1919 a widow described by Mrs. McNally as pathological tried to pass off dolls as real twins, hiring a nurse and staging a Chicago shipment to explain the missing children. The plan collapsed as she left her husband September 22 amid allegations of deception and harmful tricks. Witnesses testified to the dolls being lifelike.
A guide urges modest talk avoiding praise of elites and public figures. It stresses that well bred individuals keep personal comments out of casual conversation and value restraint over flaunting connections.
Atlanta dispatch reports Walter F. George former Georgia Supreme Court justice captured the United States Senate seat over Governor T. W. Hardwick. George secured 304 county unit votes in Tuesday’s special primary and ran ahead of the late Thomas E. Watson’s successor race with unofficial returns tallying in.
Observers reported the Watson bloc of roughly 50 000 voters stayed intact and voted almost solid for the former court justice. In 125 of 160 counties Watson carried 96 more convention votes than needed for nomination, Hardwick won 28 counties, Wright seven, Cooper none. In 71 counties the popular vote gave George 27 914, Hardwick 19 026, Wright 7 063 and Cooper 400 amid generally light turnout due to bad weather. The convention meets October 28 to confirm results. nominations loom as de facto election in November.
New York report says Dr. B E House of Ferrin Texas seeks Southwest Medical Association endorsement for experiments using twilight sleep with scopolamine on up to a thousand Leavenworth inmates to force truthful statements. He claims prior tests in his state succeeded in “robbing the mind” of stored truth.
The item bundles forecast snippets across South Carolina and Georgia with fair to cooler conditions and showers, Florida unsettled with local trains and cooler spells, Alabama generally fair with possible frost, plus historical notes citing Pennsylvania as the largest vessel in 1896 and San Francisco hosting the first transcontinental express route. It also notes 1918 divorce totals in Japan and a stray garbled chess reference in Hindustan.
A woman said to have attended Frank Schlatter’s death was sought by police as a coroner’s inquest was ordered to determine if foul play or a pneumonia related hemorrhage caused his death in a St. Louis rooming house. Agnes Schlatter, a Kansas City lecturer, claimed she and her husband’s spiritualist followers clashed over his planned Episcopal church confession.
Mrs. Margaret Maguire of State Street Athens reports sharp back pains and dizziness from kidney issues eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills from Palmer's Drug Store. She says a second box cured her trouble and prices are 60 cents at dealers. Fe er Milburn Co Buffalo NY advertisement.
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