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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1912
Page
4
A collage of small notices and editorial snips covers remittance methods, late delivery complaints, and witty quips about weather, pistols, and kindness. It surveys political figures Wilson Roosevelt Taft, railways earnings, and Philadelphia science rescues, ending with tariff critique.
The Chicago Tribune opposed Grant’s third term and ridiculed medals for the 306 delegates who voted for him on 36 ballots. The editorial notes medals branding the third term as a failed political move and links them to bossism, politics, and factional bitterness.
Prof. V C Vaughan argues that science has greatly benefited humanity by revealing the agents of infection and the forces of heredity and environment. He warns against equating science with mere materialism and asserts that scientific philosophy inspires moral and social betterment through knowledge of disease, evolution, and natural forces.
This date in history lists events from 1717 to 1911 including Walpole Burr Hayne and Black Friday. It also notes Duncan McLean Marshall’s birthday and his role in agriculture in Alberta. The text mixes historical dates with a personal birthday declaration and mentions the International Dry Farming Congress.
The snippet lists Lethbridge links and Bruce County birth details for a figure born Sept 24 1872, tracing early farm life schooling and Patrons of Industry leadership in Ontario, migration to Alberta 1905 to manage a Edmonton newspaper, and a 1909 election to the Alberta legislature with ministerial posts. It also notes several today birthdays including Judge Horace E Deemer Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler William H Santelmann Eugene N Foss Joseph Martin James W Good. It also includes a cotton market table with open and close prices for several months.
A poem by D. G. B. describes a boy with extraordinary pockets filled from a grab bag. The narrator notes the lad can store vast, varied items from cards to tools, chalk to fish hooks, nails, wheels, and even a clock until the inventory begins anew.
In the District Court of the United States Northern District of Georgia Eastern Division Webb & Crawford Co. a bankrupt notice is given that on August 31 1912 the company was adjudicated bankrupt and the first meeting of creditors will be held at Rerefee's Office Athens Ga on October 3 1912 at 10 o clock in the forenoon creditors may attend prove their claims appoint a trustee examine the assets FRANK L UPSON Referee in Bankruptcy Dated Athens Ga Sept 21 1912
Atlanta reports Georgia bears close ties to all three presidential candidates Taft Wilson and Roosevelt. Taft anchored a winter capital in Augusta and connected via Major Archie Butt. Wilson began as a young Atlanta lawyer and married a Rome native, with a Gainesville birth for his first daughter. Roosevelt’s Georgia link traces to his Bulloch lineage.
Athens Ten Minutes Talk on City Building discusses using convention publicity to attract events. It covers booklets, trade journal articles, badges, billboards, railroad distribution, and the value of high quality printing to entice delegates and visitors.
A fragment notes a Roswell visit to the Bulloch mansion near Atlanta and claims a unique tie to three presidential candidates. Other items mention a judge fining a pistol bearer and a heroic line, plus a beans ad from Arnold & Abney with 3 quarts for 26 cents.
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