05 Aug 1903
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
1
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as rebuilding strength and vigor for weak individuals. It claims to purify blood, stimulate the liver, and restore solid flesh, citing a bedbound patient who recovered after using multiple Pierce remedies.
Society column lists guests Col R Redding and Dr Louis B Majid as week visitors at Nicholson Place. Local society crowd attends the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meeting at the Fret Methodist church while many residents travel for family visits conventions and business. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve advertised with claims and counterfeit warnings.
The advertisement promotes a summer shoe sale at Davison & Lowe with low prices on children's low cuts and adult styles. It stresses a closing out sale on summer stock, wash goods, silks, ribbons, lace, embroideries, mats, linings, curtains, and white goods, plus new shipments and cheap trunk stock. A health note cites Mrs. Mollis Allen praising Chamberlain's Tablets for cholera morbus prevention, with local retailers H. R. Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro. named.
A candidate declares for alderman in the first ward pending Democratic party action. The message includes a medical ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and E. W. Grove’s signature on each box, plus Kodol Dyspepsia Care claims sold by The Orr Drug Co.
Prof E. CO Green of Texas A&M Entomological Dept visits Athens for the Horticultural Convention. He speaks at the Monday evening session, says Georgia’s horticultural reputation is strong and his trip has been profitable. He values talks with local fruit growers and is impressed with Athens and its people.
Public notices and local ads from Athens Georgia include bank details for University Savings Bank with $40,000 capital and savings deposits, announcements of sales by Bondarant & Co, a Marion Holland pot promotion, photo studio visit by Motes, rental and lodging offers, lost items, job-seeking accountant, and a health notice praising Electric Bitters as a preventive tonic for despondency and potential self harm.
Liverpool market shows middling uplands at 6 62 with 6 000 bales sold and 4 100 American sales. Receipts total 5 000. New York spots steady at 12 7. Athens middling price 12 25 with port receipts today estimated at 100 and 2 439 last year.
The advertising and amusement committee met at Chairman Griffiths office to approve posters band bills and free attractions for the Northeast Georgia Fair. Contracts include an electric fountain flying Baldwins a concert band and a balloonist with plans to draw crowds across pine county stores and barns. The committee’s work is praised for its diligence and promising attractions.
Bransford Mills at Owensboro Kentucky runs Clifton flour day and night to meet demand yet cannot apply the claim that other brands are as good. The store notes Clifton’s standard quality and superiority.
Miss Louise DuBose of this city leads a drive to raise about ten thousand dollars for a silver service for the battleship Georgia. She aims to enlist support from state boards of trade and chambers of commerce, sending letters to each chamber requesting substantial city contributions.
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