Old Receipts Stir Up Advertising Cards of 1842
In Athens the Banner notes antique receipts for subscriptions to the Southern Watchman and reveals a 1842 card announcing the sale of the J. H. Reynolds Co carriage and wagon works to Hodgson & Bro. Klein & Martin, Athens oldest continuous firm, preserves two pasteboard announcements.
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Southern Watchman
Athens
Martin
Klein & Martin
Buarge%s
J. H. Reynolds Co
E. R. Hodgson & Bro
Klein & ‘Martin
Messrs. Hodgson and
Reynolds
City Court Judge Cites 1048 Cases in Record
Editor Banner Letter from H S West dated May 9 1912 thanks the paper for kind references to his official conduct. He corrects the record stating 1048 cases in city court 390 civil and 658 criminal and expresses that he has labored under trying circumstances for the county.
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West
Comrade Bailey Tells Joke About Athens Veteran Reunion
Mr. 8. W. Bailey, returning from Macon with two comrades, Frank Howard and W. O. Howard, recounts travels with the United Confederate Veterans group. They marched and bunked together during the war and Bailey, kneeling each night at his bunk in prayer, slept mid prayer on a long march.
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8. W. Bailey
Macon
United Confederate Veterans
Mrr
Frank Howard
Oglethorpe
W. O. Howard
Atlanta
Athens
Mr. Bailey
Providence
Hlm
Clarke County Jail Holds Sanity Trials for Colored Inmates
In Clarke County jail repeated lunacy detentions kept a steady stream of Black inmates. Yesterday a young negro man was tried and committed for insanity. Nearby Frank Bond was seized at Newtown home after raving and being restrained to prevent harm to self and others.
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Clarke
Frank Bond
Newtown
Bond
Talking Over Wires Would Bring Friends Near Again
The fragment recalls early optimism about long distance communication and imagined future chats over wires. It suggests people would laugh together over the phone as if in person, imagining a world where distant friends could talk as if nearby.
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Granddad
Iran
Prof
Rosing
Technological , Institute of
Clarke Superior Court Adjourns With Busy 1912 Calendar
Clarke County judge C H Braz sets next year docket for May 13 to May 18 1912 with divorce trials jail and bond case listings and multiple civil actions including City of Athens vs Shawell Barrow et al Manhattan Hat Co Kellim vs Gamble and others. Crimin al docket runs May 16 17 1912 with bond cases May 18.
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C. H. Braz
Superior Court
County of
Clarke
Clarke Superior Court
A. J. Wood
W. B. Harper
Kiser & Co
Jackson, Geft
Nat. Bank
Garnishee
Ray
Pittman Bros
Moas & Co
Winder Cotton Co
Hardeman & Phinizy
Hardeman & Phi
City of Athens
Shawell
Barrow Et al
Trustees
Clmts
Arnold
M. Davis Song Co
Manhattan Hat Co
Kellim
Gamble
Admr
Whitworth
Anderson
Whitehead
Hudson
Hull
Watkins
Shackelford
Arnold Grocery Co
J. C. Cooper
National Fertilizer Co
D. C. Barrow
Sallie Harris
Jacob Cold Packing Co
S. Bramblett
Mercantile Co
Waitehead
Williams
Williame
Huggins
Fire Destroys Roof in East Athens Cottage
Yesterday firefighters attacked a kitchen chimney blaze at a Vine Street cottage in East Athens. Damage capped at under twelve dollars. meanwhile a string of futuristic ideas on intercity communication and electricity marred by rambling adjacent text.
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Athens
Vine Street
East
How To Make Paint From Lead, Zinc and Linseed Oil
Instructions describe making 10 gallons of L. and M. Paint at 2.10 per gallon with 7 gallons of linseed oil at 1.00 per gallon, yielding 27 gallons of paint for 1.65 per gallon. Claim cites cost savings of 7.70 compared with other high grade paints. Calls to contact John L. Arnold in Athens Georgia.
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John L. Arnold
Athens
Athens City Council Actions and Planned Improvements
At the regular meeting the council ratified prior decisions and discussed street openings, property condemnations, water plant upgrades, and a new city hall basement prison. Appeals in whisky possession cases for Hansford and Moody were postponed to next Thursday night. Fire Hall property sale and new prison construction were approved, along with a six month option on courthouse property for 27 500. The grand lodge of K P were invited to meet in this city next year.
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Col. Wolver M. Smith
J. G
Mra
A. Humphill
Burton
Barberville
Athens
Madison County
King Street
Iime
Washington and
Jackson Streets
City Hall
Grand Lodge of K. of P
Grand Lodge
Augusta
St. Elmo Lodge
Southern Sociological Congress Draws 8000 Delegates
Miss Stennin secretary of the local Y W A and Mia. Ju Han of the Hiswassed Settlement attend the Southern Sociological Congress in Nashville as Athens representatives. The gathering expects delegates from 16 southern states and 8000 attendees. Sessions cover practical solutions to southern issues with speakers from Nashville Vanderbilt and other institutions.
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Stennin
Y. W
Mia. Ju- Han
Great Southern Sociological Congress
Nashville
Athens
Southern Sociological Congress
Landreth
Dyer
Vanderbilt
Gullick
Woolley
Mary Woods
Normal School
What Texans Admire Admires New Life Pills
Hugh Tallman of San Antonio extols Dr. King’s New Life Pills as a source of heady vigorous life. He and his wife claim they renew energy, aid stomach and liver issues, and recommend the remedy as the best. Priced at 25 cents at all druggists.
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Hugh Tallman
San Antonio
Dr. King
Heroism on the tracks by fireman saving child near Jefferson
Yesterday morning on the Gainesville Midland Railway a colored fireman known as Soap Lockett leaped from the locomotive to rescue a two and a half year old child stranded on the track near Jefferson. The engineer and conductor faced a high speed curve as the child stood unaware. Lockett and another worker dragged the baby clear just as the train halted with wheels over the spot, leaving the crew bruised but the child safe.
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Lockett
Gainesville Midland Railway
John Potter
Jefferson
Gus Clark
Tom Adair
Erro A Sly
Partes
Ieee
Grand Lodge Meets in Gainesville Georgia
Two thousand Odd Fellows and friends from Georgia will meet in Gainesville for a two day session starting May 23. Committees prepare entertainment. delegates arrive May 20 21 and 23 as grand lodge discusses a permanent Odd Fellows home. Rebekah Assembly of about 200 ladies also meets. three $300 prizes planned for working teams.
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Gainesville
Odd Fellows
Georgia
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Georgia
Grand Lodge
Rebekah Assembly
J. M. Findley
Lyons
University Bulletin Totals For 1911 12 Students by Class and Field
The University of Georgia publishes detailed registration by school and course. Graduates and undergraduates across Franklin College, the State College of Agriculture, Civil and Electrical Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, Summer School, and the Cotton Schools total 1,086 registered students with multiple sub totals. Alumni vocations include Physicians, Ministers, Engineers, Officers, Teachers, Farmers, and Lawyers totaling 6,724. Other institutes in the system report regional totals for North Georgia Agricultural College, the School of Technology in Atlanta, Milledgeville normal college, Athens normal school, Savannah industrial youth college, Augusta Medical College, and related programs, yielding a systemic total of 4,396 receiving instruction, and various breakdowns by degree, professional, normal, and preparatory courses.
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University of Georgia
Franklin College
the State College
I. College of Science
Wongneering
College of Agriculture
U. 9
Army and Navy
Franklin Jege
College of Science and Engineering
State College of Agriculture
Pharmacy
North Georgia Agricultural Collge
Oahionega
School of Technology
Atlanta
Normal and Industrial College
Milledgeville
State Normal School
Athens
Industrial College For Colored Youths
Savannah
Cotton Region Weather Bulletin May Week Review
The Cotton Region Weather Bulletin reports mean temperatures from near normal to 6 degrees above across the cotton belt. Weekly totals ranged from 62 to 78 in the east, 66 to 78 in the center, and 70 to 78 in the west with scattered locations recording the greatest excess. Rainfall was widespread and heavy in Louisiana and Alabama and along the Texas coast, with Melville, Louisiana reporting 10.08 inches. More than 2 inches fell in parts of eight states, while northern Arkansas and extreme northwestern Texas saw no rain. Georgia experienced cloudy unsettled weather with showers early and late in the week, leaving soil very wet. several stations in the southwest measured over an inch of rain on Sunday, and mean temperatures stayed above normal though highs did not rise unusually high, maxing near 90 in the south.
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Orleans
I. M. Cline
Cotter
Louisiana
Alabama
Texas
Arkansas
Melville
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
Fraud Paint and Court Docket Notice
Fraud Paint warns against low price paints as cheats while a Supreme Court notice sets civil and criminal dockets for June and July 1912. A testimonial touts Foley Kidney Pills as relief for back pain and kidney trouble with sales by local merchants.
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P.tonle. Gay
Aldesters
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Coca-Cola CO
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Clarke County
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Mr. Parmer
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Studnts
Cotton Region Weather Bulletin
Mure
Supreme Court
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