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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
4
Advertises subscription rates and delivery issues while urging civic engagement. Mentions bond election on April 3, real estate gains, tax deadlines, and registering before April 1. Comments on Wilson Harvey incident, college events, and party politics with Bryan. Calls for cooperation among business leaders and local efforts to curb crime and improve spring conditions.
A Georgia Club survey at the State Normal School reports Clarke county shows a 44 percent rise in white tenant farming and 96 percent for black tenants. It notes 70 percent of white owned farms and 66 percent of black owned farms are mortgage free, both below state averages. It compares Madison county where black owners rose 87 percent in five years while overall farm ownership barely grew.
A nine year old boy is killed by a freight train on a Seaboard Air Line bridge. Two younger boys witness the tragedy while others pass the dangerous track daily. The piece urges parents to supervise their children's paths and warns railways cannot police all tracks.
The article argues the South has grown rapidly in three decades through vast land and natural resources but needs more productive workers. It urges cautious immigration policy to avoid large unintegrated groups and warns against political influence from foreigners lacking English proficiency.
The article maps Georgia's 1912 political year with elections and events from January governor inauguration to November congressional and state elections. It details primaries, conventions, and legislative sessions across months including February county and state GOP conventions and December political lull.
The article discusses long standing charges that great trusts control higher government positions by naming sympathetic appointees. Trusts deny the claims, asserting officials are elected or appointed without undue influence, while the public remains skeptical of their role in government appointments.
The text discusses Andrew Carnegie claiming he urged P. C. Knox to be attorney general under McKinley and suggests trusts have influenced high offices. It notes Knox, now Secretary of State, offers no comment and argues congressional investigations may expose trust control rather than yield court punishments. It implies a shift in public opinion and possible administration change.
The piece argues population and business volume shape political strength. It notes the South once led the nation but declined, yet rapid regional growth and rich natural resources could restore leadership in commerce and population. It cites the Southern Commercial Congress and Washington Post on nine key natural assets backing future South dominance in exports and imports.
The article argues Athens should push to attract wood based plants near Mount Timber fields as Gainesville expands rail access to timber rich mountains. It notes Gainesville’s $300 advertising push and claims Athens can lure at least ten plants producing items from mountain timber with proper effort and rail integration.
Dr J C Bloomfeld leads a program in Athens to collect office waste paper and similar refuse, baling and shipping it for wrapping paper. The system yields about $600 yearly, with sacks distributed by the sanitary department wagons and revenue covering a good worker’s salary. The article compares European and English waste to power plants, detailing continental plant designs and outputs.
The report describes multiple boiler setups including three horizontal water tube boilers of 615 square meters at one plant supplying two engines 40 hp and 496,187 kw generated with 193,485 consumed by the plant and 120,860 by the municipal hospital. Stenigs Zurich features three horizontal water tube boilers of 410 square meters feeding a 220 hp engine with 130,751 consumed by the plant and 49,596 by shops. Kiel lists three horizontal water tube boilers with 510 square meters heating surface feeding an 80 hp engine.
A Georgian who lived in Athens for decades urges residents to value their city, noting Athens challenges overestimating itself and urging pride in climate, railroads, productive growth, culture, and high altitude surroundings. He warns locals not to underrate Athens’s greatness and potential.
Georgia initiates a system of state study at the State Normal School under E. C. Branson. The project collects tax digests and census data to compare urban and rural populations, wealth from mills versus farms, and county self sufficiency, aiming to reveal state conditions and guide progress. Clarke County cited as self supporting.
The Clarke county economic survey shows black farmers increasing land and farm ownership while white owned farms grow more slowly. It notes 957 negros own homes and farms in the city and county, owning nearly one eighth of county land with strong growth in several districts, urging whites to rethink farming practices.
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