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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1913
Page
11
The Athens Banner notes Athens grows steadily with eight hundred college students returning this year. It reports new houses and stores rising, populations shifting, and ongoing local business expansion in a calm, era-appropriate tone.
Store news urges retailers to broadcast price cuts and bargains to attract customers. Emphasizes specific details on remaining odds and ends, new goods, and popular items to capture readers and drive sales. Encourages tailoring ads to local conditions and audience.
The Charleston News and Courier defends baseball lingo against calls to report games in plain English. It argues the sport’s idioms are a distinctive, expressive tongue essential to the game, praising its catch-phrases and stylistic flair while warning purists and pedants against erasing the language of baseball.
The Georgia State Board of Health, led by an Athens physician, heads into fall with timely, lasting efforts. As schools reopen and business and farming pick up, the board issues seasonally relevant bulletins to protect school child health, urging parents teachers and physicians to stay in close touch with state health efforts.
September 21 marks events from 1435 Arras treaty between France and Burgundy to 1814 Star Spangled Banner debut in Baltimore papers and 1863 Bragg siege of Chattanooga. Also 1901 George V unveiled Victoria statue in Ottawa and 1911 reciprocity pact defeat in Canada.
A 1913 note recalls how the minstrel tune Dixie stirs strong emotions across the North South East and West. The author, b G Bickers, cites the song’s powerful resonance despite simple words and links the melody to national sentiment and history.
Washington reports mine operators and surgeons gather in Pittsburg to reduce mine deaths while the International Congress of Home Education opens in Philadelphia with delegates from multiple nations. Also slated: Indian lands tract settlement in Montana Glasgow site, and aviation meet at Betheny near Rheims with Canada trades congress in Montreal addressing labor laws and pensions. Electric Bitters marketed as kidney tonic with testimonials from San Francisco, advertised by W J Smith & Bro. and H R Palmer & Sons.
The text notes Samuel Rea born September 21, 1855 in Hollidaysburg Blair County Pennsylvania and aged 58 today. It traces his rail career from 1871 through roles including assistant engineer on the chain suspension bridge in Pittsburgh and rising to fourth vice president then first vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It also lists contemporaries H G Wells Henry L Stimson and Clark Howell with their ages.
A compiled list marks September 22 as the birthday of Anne of Cleves and other historical events including Ostend’s surrender in 1604, Salem witch trials executions in 1642, George III’s coronation in 1761, Nathan Hale’s execution in 1776, Joseph Smith’s Book of Mormon claim in 1827, the Monterey battle in 1845, a 1862 governors meeting in Altoona, the 1898 Chinese abdication, and a 1912 Japan typhoon with heavy losses.
The obituary style chronology notes William W Griest born September 22 54th birthday celebrated. It outlines his rise from Lancaster county clerk to secretary of the Commonwealth and long service in Congress. Also mentions contemporaries Thomas A Sisson Col Hugh L Scott Prof Henry R Lang and Abdul Hamid II with current ages.
Atlanta gossip tracks Judge Nash R Broyles potential run for state court of appeals and a possible Russell Broyles clash. It notes Prohibitionist leanings and the rising strength of women suffragists in Georgia politics and lists likely gubernatorial contenders including J Randolph Anderson W H Burwell L G Hardman T S Felder and others.
An advertisement claims Dr King s New Life Pills are a safe prompt laxative for women. Mrs M C Dunlap of Leadville Tenn says the pills helped her troubles greatly. Box price 25 cents, recommended by local merchants.
A short remedy advertisement notes many cholera morbus cases end fatally without timely medicine. It claims Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cures promptly when kept on hand, citing Mrs Charles Stewart of Mt Collins New York. The ad states the remedy costs a quarter and is sold by all dealers.
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