12 Aug 1913
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Newspaper
Brunswick News
Location
Brunswick, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1913
Page
1
The notice names Louis J. Leavy Jr as Vice President and Managing Editor and Edgar M. Dart as Secretary and Business Manager. It indicates entry at the Brunswick Georgia post office as second class mail.
AUS publishiring remarks discuss Roosevelt's absence, South Carolina senatorial fights, and political maneuvering with references to Sulzer Lind and Hobson. Observations compare presidential roles, ambassador choices, and public ethics while noting Georgia registration and voter issues raised by Athens Banner and Savannah Press.
The tariff measure teeters in the Senate with 45 to 47 votes, threatened by a potential Democratic defection. Calls grow for either an Alabama election or adjournment to replace Johnston, while concerns rise over delays weakening tariff support. Also noted: sweeping public health efforts and the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene highlighting open air classrooms, dental clinics, and health inspections.
An World s Work editorial lauds progress in school hygiene replacing old calisthenics with ventilation lighting sanitary privies and health inspections. Physicians dentists and sociologists now cooperate to apply scientific knowledge to healthier childhood, noting an estimated five percent of twenty million U S pupils have pulmonary tuberculosis.
The article reviews a New York board of health bulletin citing Prof Willcox's analysis of 1910s census data. It notes married men show lower death rates than single men across ages 20 to 70, with explanations including health selection, regular life, and responsibility toward others, while women show mixed results with single women sometimes faring better after age 30.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes Hon. James Yates Mellen recounting a conversation with a black janitor about church and election beliefs. In a separate vignette a salesgirl yawns while preparing for work and recalls a late night mystery under her covers, wondering if it was a nickel or a broken metal button.
A fragmented dialogue piece lampoons editors and social pretensions as spring mood loosens restraint. Vignettes include a physician, a lampooned diagnosis, and light exchanges about manners and romance.
Percy's visit to Evelyn is discussed with frank tone. Evelyn notes her mother opposed nothing and now rejects objections, while a humorous aside comments on baby brightness and a joke about New Paper Money designs featuring a dressed turkey center surrounded by lamb chops.
An old remedy promoting a Pinex based cough syrup mixed with water sugar and pine extract is advertised as quickly ending coughs within 24 hours and helping whooping cough croup chest pains and bronchitis It claims high efficacy and a money back guarantee with Pinex and Darbys Prophylactic Fluid as additives.
St Simons transit lines publish daily and Sunday schedules between Brunswick Ocean Pier and St Simons Island with multiple daily departures and special excursions. The Hessie steamer runs Brunswick to Darien with calls at St Simons Mills Frederica and Darien, offering a picturesque tour past the Georgia coast.
The Brunswick Florida Steamboat Co announces the Steamer Emmeline service from Brunswick to Cumberland Island and Fernandina Florida with daily and Sunday trips. It lists departure times, stopping points including St Simons Pier, and round trip fares Fernandina $1 Cumberland 50 cents. The schedule notes Sunday visits to Jekyll Island and the homes of Carnegie and Dungeness as sightseeing highlights.
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