9 January 1910: "When Milady Goes Shopping"

On this day in 1910, the following suggestion was made to the married men of Athens:

Athens Transfer & Livery Co. was owned by the Deadwyler family, who also were in the cotton broker business, also on Clayton Street, approximately across the street from where the Last Resort Grill is today. The Deadwylers had sold mules and horses in Athens for years, as well as feed and some other livestock-related supplies. 


Their ads in the 1909 Athens city directory indicate that they offered "The Best Livery Teams in Town" and could do "All kinds of hauling," including "Household Goods," not just taking potentially cranky women into town to gather provisions for the home.




Learn More:

• Athens Banner, Jan. 1910 - Jun. 1910 on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• Athens Historic Newspaper Archive collection in the Digital Library of Georgia.
• 1909 Athens City Directory on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Athens, Georgia, in the Digital Library of Georgia.
• For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English in the general collection.
• Women in the South: An Anthropological Perspective by Holly F. Mathews in the general collection.
• The Truth About Women by Georgia Witkin in the general collection.
• You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation by Deborah Tannen in the general collection.
• The Complete Horse Book by Elwyn Hartley Edwards and Candida Geddes in the general collection.
• When Difficult Relatives Happen to Good People by Leonard Felder in the general collection.
• Love Is Never Enough by Aaron T. Beck in the general collection.
• Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men by Anne Fausto-Sterling in the general collection.
• International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds by Bonnie L. Hendricks in the Reference collection.

1 January 1917: "A Great Deal of Excitement Was Caused"

On this day in 1917, news of an eclectic collision on Milledge Avenue was reported in the Athens Daily Herald:

Learn More:

• Athens Daily Herald, Jan. 1917 - Jun. 1917 on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• A Postcard History of Athens, Georgia by Gary L. Doster in the Heritage and general collections.
• Horsecars, Cable Cars, and Omnibuses by John H. White, Jr. in the general collection.
• Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation That Works by Jim Motavalli via PINES.
• Getting There: The Epic Struggle Between Road and Rail in the American Century by Stephen B. Goddard in the general collection.
• Henry's Wonderful Model T, 1908-1927 by Floyd Clymer in the general collection.
• Saddlery and Horse Equipment by Sarah Muir in the general collection.
• Cable Car by Christopher C. Swan in the general collection.
• Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices by Elizabeth David via PINES.
• Get Up and Go: The History of American Road Travel by Sylvia Whitman in the children's collection.
• Automobile Age Atlanta: The Making of a Southern Metropolis, 1900-1935 by Howard Preston in the Heritage collection.
• Buses, Trolleys, and Trams by Charles S. Dunbar in the general collection.
• The Athletic Horse: His Selection, Work, and Management by Carol Foster in the general collection.
• Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of American Progress, 1903-2003 by Douglas Brinkley in the general collection.
• Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life by Tom Lewis in the general collection.
• Travels with Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford, A Journal by Rose Wilder Lane in the biography collection.

25 June 1889: Paper Predicts Horses May Become One of "Our Rared Monsters"

On this day in 1889, the Weekly Banner published the following editorial:

The decline of the horse as transportation was not as rapid as it may have seemed in 1889. Though automobiles gained in popularity, liveries still did a good business in Athens into the 1910s, and the Athens police used mounted patrols for downtown for more than 100 years after this editorial was published.

Learn More:

• Southern Watchman, Aug. 1888 - Dec. 1889 on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• Georgia's Protected Wildlife by the Game & Fish Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in the Heritage collection.
• The Optimist's Tour of the Future: One Curious Man Sets Out to Answer "What's Next?" by Mark Stevenson in the New Books collection. 
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand in the general collection.
• Secretariat's Meadow: The Land, the Family, the Legend by Kate Chenery Tweedy in the New Books collection.
• The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds by Diane Ackerman in the general collection.
• The Wonderful Future That Never Was by Gregory Benford in the New Books collection.
• The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species by Scott Weidensaul in the general collection.
• Inevitable Surprises: Thinking Ahead in a Time of Turbulence by Peter Schwartz in the general collection.
• A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten in the general collection.
• Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years by Marvin J. Cetron and Owen Davies in the general collection.
• No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species by Richard Ellis in the general collection.
• I Live in the Future and Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain are Being Creatively Disrupted by Nick Bilton in the New Books collection.
• Extinct Species of the World by Jean-Christophe Balouet in the general and Reference collections. 
• Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth by Curt Stager in the New Books collection.
• The Way We Will Be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World's Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half Century, edited by Mike Wallace in the general collection.
• The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century by Scott Adams in the general collection.
• MountedPolice.com website.

5 June 1894: Runaway Carriage into Town

On this day in 1894, the Weekly Banner reported this harrowing story:

 

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Learn More:

• Weekly Banner, Jan. 1894 - Jul. 1895 on Microfilm in the Heritage collection.
• Athens Historic Newspaper Archive collection in the Digital Library of Georgia.
• Carriage Terminology: An Historical Dictionary by Donald H. Berkebile in the general collection.
• How I Trained My Colt by Sandy Rabinowitz in the children's collection.
• The Athletic Horse: His Selection, Work, and Management by Carol Foster in the general collection.
• The Horses We Love, The Lessons We Learn by Tena Bastian in the general collection.
• The Greatest Horse Stories Ever Told, edited by Steven D. Price in the general collection.
• A Basic Guide to Horse Care and Management by Bruce Mills and Barbara Came in the general collection.
• Saddlery and Horse Equipment: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Riding Tack by Sarah Muir in the general collection.
• Whole Heart, Whole Horse: Building Trust Between Horse and Rider by Mark Rashid in the general collection.
• Believe: A Horseman's Journey by Buch Brannaman and William Reynolds in the general collection.
• Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley in the fiction collection.
• Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs by David Cruise and Allison Griffiths in the Biography collection.
• The Man Who Listens to Horses by Monty Roberts in the general collection.
• The Horse Boy by Michel Orion Scott in the DVD collection.
• Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin in the general collection.