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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1911
Page
5
The notice states that any person subscribing or paying arrearages earns votes equal to the payment amount toward any lady they wish to compliment. Dubs for the Daily Banner and Weekly Banner list prices, urging matrons in five counties to join. The contest lasts just under two months and is a call to begin work now for an advantage.
Claude Graham-White, the English aviator, arrived in Boston to take part in Harvard’s aviation tournament opening next Saturday. He celebrated his thirty first birthday among friends, recalling a career from a Suffolk farm to aviation fame and a fortune earned since the London to Manchester flight.
A Banner report from the Medical Society of the Eighth District notes a striking gender gap in pellagra. In Athens since last fall sixteen deaths occurred, fifteen of which were women, prompting discussion of causes and statistics.
A heavy iron safe weighing over a ton, loaded on an elevator at McGregor's Book Store, broke the steel cable and plunged into the cellar. Workmen on or near the shaft escaped injury as the platform and safe disappeared below ground level. Elevator repairs will be extensive and raising the safe will be more difficult than lowering it.
The Banner notes profit from vegetables with tomatoes selling at a dollar per vine and cantaloupes exceeding $160 an acre. Athens see two horse wagonloads of tomatoes, State College farm canning plans, and local growers like S.B. Jossey and J.W. Kinney reporting strong demand and rising prices.
Dr. D A N Thomas, 55, husband and father of ten, died after a Gainesville Midland train struck him near Jersey Walton County. He was attempting to reach a junction from the right track when he stepped onto the main line as the engine approached. Eyewitnesses say he waved a handkerchief and the engineer sounded the whistle and applied brakes but could not avoid the collision. The train backed to the scene. Dr. Thomas died shortly after at the hospital. This marks the first white fatality on the Gainesville Midland in its 30 years of operation.
The Central of Georgia Railway will inaugurate about fifteen test farms in Alabama and Georgia this fall to test modern farming methods under expert supervision. Farmers gain tailored plans, seed and fertilizer guidance, and a railway guarantee to cover losses if results fall short.
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