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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1914
Page
4
The Athens Banner notes Carranza may quit Mexico’s presidency to restore peace and urges patriotism. It praises rising University of Georgia attendance and Sunday school participation, surveys cotton markets and an Athens High School project, and promotes a new merchant funding plan to ease local debt with cotton certificates at one cent above market.
The conference report on the trust bill is said to be weakened and not closely like the original. Despite criticism, the measure may pass and go to the president for signature. Congress has worn members thin after a long session, with little relief anticipated for cotton growers this term.
The Athens merchants' association proposes paying one cent a pound above market for cotton to settle farmers' debts and supply goods, aiming to aid farmers while protecting merchants against low prices. The plan could yield ten cent cotton or more depending on market trends. Farmers are urged to consider the arrangement to manage debts and purchases.
The piece notes Chicago allowed women to vote in a general primary and only about eight thousand names appeared on tally sheets. It argues that many eligible women did not vote, despite comfortable polling places, suggesting voters may tire after first experience, while acknowledging higher participation in western and Rocky Mountain states.
The Macon State Fair will open with strong displays from the State College of Agriculture. Farmers are urged to visit the corn club boys, canning club girls, and Georgia pig clubs as these exhibits grow in participation and impact each year. The fair promises useful farming information and uplifting agricultural progress for Georgia.
French officers in Algiers test a six wheeled sledge with a propeller and 50 horsepower motor for desert travel. It glides over dunes and may later gain wings to leap obstacles, reflecting the era’s airship optimism.
A 1798 Irish prisoner, held with a comrade, vows to reveal crucial secrets only after the other man is dead. He tells the commander he fears for his own life and suggests the prisoner’s death would free him to speak. The tale highlights a secret-keeping mindset amid wartime captivity.
The Universal Language asserts music is the one common tongue across nations. Masters differ by country yet listeners worldwide find delight in a composition, regardless of the composer’s homeland or the land where it is heard.
A London broker recounts a rush sign off that caused a misread closing line. The typist wrote a remark about the day being on a more moral basis, prompting ironic commentary on ambition and retirement. An older man imagines ending life quietly reading Dickens in Branch Brook Park.
A noted Paris chemist and former College de France professor proposes using carbonic oxide to execute criminals. He argues it yields a quiet painless death and avoids shocking the sensibilities, drawing on its use in euthanizing stray dogs.
The gentleman appears to achieve ease by effort not birth and cannot be socially secure by birth alone. His value lies in the pleasure others take in his company, not in wit or learning, and that pleasure comes from ordinary social relations rather than selfapproval.
A child asks Mamma if the vibrant parrot hatched from an Easter egg, sparking a moment of playful confusion. The scene toyingly blends image and question, highlighting a child's literal reading of colors and origins.
An elderly resident complained of sleep disturbance from a thrush singing on a neighbor's balcony. Police confirmed the disturbance and ordered the neighbor to remove the bird from the villa balcony.
A dialogue fragment shows a man saying girls are queer creatures who marry the first fool who asks, and a woman teasingly challenges him about his own likely reaction. The exchange highlights gendered attitudes and social expectations in courtship.
In Laramie in the Beene tent of Wear ing, rocks reveal Wyoming’s deep past from a carboniferous sea to tropical swamps and giant dinosaurs. The Monkey Face and Hornets Nest Park stones, Steamboat Rock and related sandstone layers record elevations, ancient oceans, evolving life, and later human intrusion of trapping and mining.
A British government expedition led by Captain Kelsey plans an automobile trek from the Cape to Cairo. A remarkable vehicle features a detachable body that switches to a pontoon to ferry the chassis engine and baggage across water. It includes a searchlight for bush travel and ample gasoline capacity.
In Butte California during a funeral for Mrs. J R Burney’s three year old son a coffin scene stunned attendees. The child sat up looking around and locked eyes with his grandmother Mrs. L P Smith who then collapsed and died. The boy died hours later and the family held double services burying both grandmother and child.
In Cross Village Michigan a monument crosses the village to mark Pere Marquette’s cross and mission history. The 600 residents, white and Indian, preserve the cross at the site of Marquette’s original post and instruction to keep it fixed for all time.
A New York Sun writer explains Libau as Russia’s pivotal Baltic port, open year round with two harbors hidden behind a four mile breakwater. It frames Libau as essential for war and supply, notes artificial concrete blocks, a naval yard behind a cut lagoon, and its role as a resort with strict beach norms.
The London Chronicle criticizes Rudyard Kipling for political speech making at Tunbridge Wells describing a loss of good manners and common sense. It contrasts his past creative genius with present political rhetoric and notes that genius is inconsistent and burdened by its own demands.
A recent dispatch on the Rod man Wanamaker air-water craft notes tomorrow morning, Curtiss will test a planing board under the tail to raise the stern sooner. The description suggests a mule analogy in the framing of the nautical device and its test.
A humorous dialogue follows a man recalling meeting his first wife who was a widow. He says he saw her coming and began to circle a block until she doubled back and popped out from behind a corner just as he thought he had escaped.
A historical note outlines biblical chapter counts 929 in the Old Testament and 200 in the New. It compares total words to Shakespeare, noting Shakespeare’s plays total 14 780 words with Hamlet as the longest line count and Comedy of Errors as the shortest. It cites the longest word honorificabilitudinatibus and mentions alphabet letters in Ezra and Psalm 117 as trivia.
Sam McKay, born June 28, 1786 in St. Pauls, North Carolina, is seen as the oldest living man. He recalls the Cape Fear river boat of 1799, has 18 children, a vast descendant network, and has avoided glasses, railroads, and photographs his whole life. He credits his long life to a calm temperament and no worries.
The Kaiser commissions special playing cards with King George V the czar Francis Joseph and the king of Italy as kings. Queens are their consorts and ambassadors of four nations as knaves. France is omitted for its republic status. Aces show four leading Parisian women to avert incidents.
In Larkspur California women sealed a plan to preserve a working hobble skirt for future generations. They buried the skirt along with copies of local papers the Bible and a trustees list in a crypt in the cornerstone of the new hall.
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