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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1903
Page
9
The piece argues a strong stomach is essential to citizenship and military service, linking health digestion and patriot duty. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as proven to cure stomach and digestion issues, citing testimonials and promoting medical advice literature and mail-order offers.
Warm weather nearing. Store promotes refrigerators ice boxes and Peerless cream freezers. Offers low cash prices and long installment plans. Showcases water coolers fly fans water filters dinner sets and glassware with a broad selection in Athens.
Athens society gathers at the Country Club with refreshments, dancing, and cards. Mrs Billups Phinizy wins the lone hands prize. Mrs Nannette Hodgson wins most progressions. Mr Billups Phinizy takes the gentleman’s prize. Multiple locals and visitors noted with social events, church services, and ongoing community notices.
An advertisement extols rising cakes and pies using Good Luck Taking Powder, touting it as the best leavener. It promises light, wholesome bread and mentions a six on can with two sections, urging readers in Richmond, Virginia to save with the product.
Workers discovered a decomposed infant's body, about one month old, inside a pasteboard box wrapped in cloth within an old tomb. The coroner could not determine the child's race and no inquest was held. The body appeared in the resting place for two to three weeks after being blown down by wind. Superintendent John Cain led the search by force and the body was given to Coroner Rogers.
Glenn Lodge No 75 holds a special Sunday evening meeting at 7 30 to attend the First Baptist church for a sermon by Past Grand Rev. Joan D. Mell. Odd Fellows are fraternally invited to join the 86th anniversary observance. A W Dozier N G G E Stone Secr.
Wingfield Cash Grocery touts Test One Sack Of Clifton flour as producing more and better bread with greater satisfaction than competing brands.
A Colorado school head, born on an Illinois farm, details years of poor digestion and headaches. After years of laxatives and limited foods, a diet of Grape-Nuts and Postum Co. products restored health, boosting work capacity and eliminating laxatives. The testimony credits Grape-Nuts with remarkable recovery.
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