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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1893
Page
4
In Athens, a preacher urges strict Sabbath keeping arguing the day guards family religion and moral life, condemning Sunday newspapers and rail travel as harmful. Rev Washburn warns readers to awaken and be ready for the Master, while other notes report cabinet confirmations and international greetings.
The Dairy School at Rock College opened yesterday at eleven in the presence of many city residents and Agricultural students. Dr White spoke on milk and its products while Mr H J Wing demonstrated butter and cheese making. The program is open to the public and seeks broad attendance, especially from women interested in dairy operations.
The Greenville Georgia cyclone left many homeless and wounded. Citizens urge Georgians to donate relief funds via Banner office or directly to R D Bender, Greenville bank president, as efforts begin to aid the afflicted.
Walter Mitchell, an 18 year old printer for the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock, died after his mother mistook carbolic acid for medicine. The accident occurred at their Duggar Indiana arrival home when a bottle with no label was used in the dim room. A neighbor doctor arrived but the child died within minutes, leaving a frantic mother and sister. The body was to be sent to Riegel, Indiana, for burial.
The Milledgeville district announces a new head for the Washington Street School as a directorate election at the Georgia Normal and Industrial College moves forward. The departed J J J will be replaced in a few weeks, with Earnest noted as a valued educator and gentleman. Beecham’s Pills are recommended for households.
Reports from Forsyth LaGrange Greenville and Marion Mississippi describe a Friday night cyclone sweeping southwest to northeast. Destruction touched Forsyth including multiple deaths and many injured. LaGrange and Greenville saw significant damage with homes barns and farms destroyed and several residents killed or fatally injured. In Washington Howell B. Jackson sworn in as Justice of the U S Supreme Court before inauguration ceremonies.
A grateful letter from Syntha Ramsey of Newnan Georgia describes relief after a severe asthma attack from one dose of Taylor's herb remedy, praised as a great medicine for coughs colds and consumption.
Congress agenda centers on silver and tariff questions and the anti-options bill. Other notable measures include World’s Fair funding, rail equipment mandates, quarantine, immigration, Behring Sea, and Hawaiian annexation. Debate stalls movement. McKinley act revisions advance slowly with vetoes, filibusters, and party lines shaping outcomes.
Sandgate in Kent faced a night of roaring subsidence and collapsed structures as underground rumblings, damaged by waves undercutting a low cliff, sank the town. Two hundred houses were destroyed. no lives were reported lost, residents fled to nearby towns, and a patrol of troops aided in evacuation.
In Charleston on March 6 Hon. William A. McCorkle was inaugurated governor as a new state administration was sworn in. The simple ceremonies included a reception and inaugural ball with small military escorts and carriages. The governor pledged liberal railroad policy and an honest administration while supporting the tax bill. Also reported: Tennessee treasurers and comptroller secure $1,000,000 in refunding bonds with no trouble foreseen. Counterfeiters Webb and Bever captured in Wheeling, their Bellid factory near Parkersburg raided by federal authorities.
Wasaran March 6 reports five first term senators joining twenty reelected members after credentials for John Martin were presented. The senate chairman ruled the credentials in due form and admitted Martin to take the oath pending any future title challenge.
The Georgia Hussars returning from Washington to Savannah crashed two miles north of Wiisseono South Carolina when the tender car derailed and pushed the stock car with horses down a high embankment. Five fine horses died or were injured as rescuers freed the animals amid a shattered wreckage.
The article notes crimson clover is very hardy and productive on light soils, with yields of one to two tons per acre from one cutting. It is highlighted by reports from the Delaware and North Carolina stations and multiple farmers, especially valuable in the cotton belt where ground frost depth is shallow.
The article discusses crimson clover as a versatile winter forage and green manure across crops and soils, detailing sowing timing, harvest benefits, and pasture potential. It cites Kent County Delaware and Virginia practices, plus notes on sowing rates, stubble reestablishment, and agronomic comparisons with red clover. Additional sections cover kerosene emulsion in pest control, equipment methods, and insights from experts like Forbes and Goff, ending with a Beekeepers' Review quote on apiary importance.
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