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Newspaper

Athens Weekly Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Dec 09, 1910

Page

7

Cotton School and Stockmen's Short Course Opens

The Cotton School and Stockmen's Short Course enters its fourth year at the College of Agriculture in Athens, starting January 2, 1911, for ten days. Open to all over sixteen, the program costs $15 to $25 and covers soils, fertilizers, cotton culture, pests, by products, grading, and farm machinery with optional animal husbandry and veterinary instruction. The piece urges early applications and notes extensive past attendance, Arbor Day topics, pruning guidance, and Athens’ inclusion in a list of notable trees in Georgia history.

State College of Agriculture Athens Cotton School and Stockmen College of Agriculture Clarke County Georgia Hartford Colony of Connecticut Cambridge Washington King's 2 South Carolina Charleston S. C Lincoln Eliot Newton Mass John Eliot Mount Vernon General Grant Capitol Lanier Brunswick Sydney Lanier Glynn Col. W. H. Jackson Arbor Day B. G. Northrup Conjeesument Board of Education J. Sterling Morton Cleveland Cabinet Morton Nebraska

War vessels offered for sale by Navy Department

Washington on December 7 reports open proposals for the purchase of obsolete cruisers Boston and Concord lying at Puget Sound navy yard. The ships are not fit for active service and buyers may likely break them up for metal. Also noted is the executive committee of the Southern Commercial Congress meeting in Washington to finalize plans for a major rally in Atlanta next March.

Japan Standard Oil Company Incornarat Kmswa Washington, D. C Navy Department United States Boston Concord Pugent Sound Navy Yard The Southern Commrcial Congress Atlanta

Arbor Day Observed in Georgia Schools

The Arbor Day observance urged Georgia students to plant trees, reflecting on Bryant’s poetry and the Nebraska origin of Arbor Day. It notes the aim to transform school grounds with trees, stressing that action matters more than ceremonies and urging immediate planting.

Boston Georgia Nebraska

Hearing on wire control in Washington DC

Representatives of telegraph and telephone interests met at a conference with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington to decide how the amended commerce law applies to franks rebates and undue preference rules for interstate telegraph and telephone companies versus railroads.

Washington, D. C Telegraph Interstate Commerce Commission

Arizona convention speech by Lamar Cobb sparks constitutional debate

Lamar Cobb of Graham County delivers a pointed address at the Prescott Arizona convention. He critiques minority tactics, questions verbatim reporting, and rails at precedents, urging adherence to statehood goals while tracing historical shifts in republican doctrine and the legacy of Lincoln.

Athens Fireat Arizona Prescott Lamar Cobb Graham County Pima United States Repubian Noah Webster Webster Antisaloon League Curiculum Harvard University Georgia Republican Party Lincoln

Taft and Roosevelt in Oklahoma and Arizona statehood clash

The piece argues that Lincoln and Roosevelt defined republican government as government of the people and asserts Oklahoma’s enabling act was correctly approved by Roosevelt despite Republican opposition. It contends Taft would share that view, treats Oregon and Arizona as constitutional tests, and warns against delaying statehood over initiative and referendum.

Lincoln Oklahoma Roosevelt Ita Mr. Taft Mr. Webster Linicoln Taft Pima Coconino Oregon Supreme Court Arizona United States

Throw Out the Line Kidney Health Appeal

Athens reader Mrs J M Martin credits Doan's Kidney Pills with easing back pain fatigue and uring recovery from kidney trouble after trying many remedies. She bought at Palmer & Sons drug store and urges others to use Doan's, 60 cents, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.

Athens Dean Palmer & Sons Doan Foster-Milburm Co Buffalo New York United States

Indiana Fruit Growers Celebrate Semicentennial Convention

Indiana Horticultural Society marks its semicentennial with the largest convention. The event opened at the state house with an address by President C. N. Lind ley of Salem and papers on fruit growing topics. The convention will continue tomorrow.

Indianapolis Ind Indiana Horticultural Society State House C. N. Lindley Salem

Mississippi Conference of M. E. Church Meets in Hattiesburg

The Mississippi conference of the M. E. Church South opens its annual session in Hattiesburg with a large delegation in attendance. Bishop Mounon of Texas serves as the presiding officer.

Mississipp Hattiesburg Miss Mississippi M. E. Church South Mounon Texas

Oklahoma Retail Merchants Convene in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City assembled retail merchants under the Oklahoma Retailers Association today to discuss freight rates and competition among wholesale houses and other mutual matters of interest and importance.

Oklahoma City Okla Oklahoma Retailers’ Association

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