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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1911
Page
4
The Athens Daily Banner lists subscription rates and delivery reminders, notes no carrier should collect payments, and highlights upcoming events. It also comments on local sports, poetry, temperance, health, and real estate transfers in Athens.
The editorial urges multiple railroad links from Athens to connect western freight lines with the coast. Proposals include the Savannah Augusta Northern via Augusta to Knoxville, a Brinson road from Savannah through Athens to western connections, and a through line from Athens to Franklin North Carolina.
The Athens community chooses calm, productive growth over protests or charter battles. Officials praise the post office and city services as steady drivers of prosperity, comparing the calm spirit to a big silent electric current guiding progress.
Athens Garden Club members plan a top fall show of flowers to precede Jack Frost. The Southern Poultry Association will also stage a large birds display with hundreds of entries, filling exhibition pens and shaping a major sectional fair.
Frederic Mistral born September 8 in Maillane Provence. French author and poet studied law before turning to literature and developing a Provencal French dictionary. He led efforts to preserve regional languages and traditions across Europe.
The revival of these works has grown in importance year by year and in his old age Mistral has received many honors.
The piece recounts Dr Crawford Williamson Long as the early discoverer of general anesthesia, noting praise from Miss Rosa Fendleton Chiles and Dr George Foy. It covers the 1842 first painless operation, rival claims by Wells Morton and Jackson, and the fate of each claimant including deaths. It also mentions Georgia’s honor with a monument and a statue in Statuary Hall.
The article notes that the captain of the Georgia football team and the former baseball captain cannot return to the university. This setback is framed as a spur to build a steadier, more reliable team on both the gridiron and the diamond, capable of winning without reliance on a single player.
An elderly caller at a Sunday school asks which is the longest Bible chapter. A boy, Tommy Tucker, confidently answers Psalm double one nine, prompting laughter and engagement as the telegraph era meets church life.
Two women trade tales of their husbands during a daytime tea. One boasts of a man who stayed underwater two minutes without surfacing. The other counters that her husband vanished beneath the waves five years ago and has not surfaced since.
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