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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1903
Page
2
The Athens Daily Banner outlines subscription rates for daily, weekly, Sunday, and monthly editions with yearly, half year, and three month options. It notes payment methods, delivery expectations, and requests prompt reports of late or missing issues to address delivery issues.
A period piece compiles community notices and editorial snippets from various papers. It references agricultural society meetings, currency and law debates, rail and telephone exchanges, public figures, party tickets, newspaper anniversaries, and road improvement pushes, all presented as local chatter and opinions.
The Athens Banner joins the Atlanta Journal in condemning professional lobbyists in Georgia. It urges the Journal to publish names of lobbyists, praises the franchise tax bill, notes defeats of the child labor and uniform text book bills, and calls for decisive action to drive hirelings from the state capitol. Down with lobbyism in Georgia.
Humors are vitiated morbid fluids coursing the veins and affecting tissues. They arise from defective digestion or heredity and manifest as cutaneous eruptions pimples boils and general debility. They are expelled by salt rheums and related remedies.
Southern Railway offers a $1.35 round trip weekend ticket from Athens to White Sulphur Springs Ga for travel weekends from July 25 to September 12. Tickets are valid on afternoon and evening trains Saturday and return by Tuesday after sale, with details via agent R W Sizer Clayton Street.
The notice argues progress requires railways and telecommunication and extends the idea to flour. It promotes Bransford's Clifton flour as superior, claiming inferior flours yield poorer bread and pastries and urging readers to try Clifton to taste the difference at Wingfield Cash Grocery.
Beginning May 17 1903 and running through October 15 1903 the Seaboard Air Line Railway will offer Sunday round trip tickets to Atlanta for 1.00. Tickets valid only on train 41 leaving Athens at 5 35 city time with good return sale date. Athens agent J Hoke along with W E Christian AGP Atlanta and C B Ryan GPA Portsmouth VA.
The University of Georgia provides agriculture horticulture and dairying programs with affordable board at Denmark Dining Hall and free dorms. The School of Pharmacy supplies extensive equipment under Dr S C Benedict. The law school offers a two year program, with three daily classes and access to other departments at no extra charge. Contact Chancellor Hill in Athens for details.
The Southern Railway sells special weekend tickets on Saturdays through September 12 at greatly reduced prices, one fare or less for round trips. Tickets to Atlanta and Tallulah Falls, Georgia, on sale Saturdays after noon, and to Asheville Hot Springs Arden Fletcher Hendersonville Flat Rock Saluda and Tryon North Carolina on all trains Saturdays, good for return until the Tuesday after sale. Inquiries to R W Sizer Athens GA S H Hardwick Washington DC W H Taylor Atlanta GA.
A brief note describes the Atlanta College of Pharmacy operating a free dispensary as an actual drug store run by Geo P. Pagos or Deas at 19 W. North Ave Attants.
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