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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
5
A testimonial notes the tonic restores keenness and vigor after long illness. The writer credits Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with rebuilding strength, purifying blood, and supporting digestion, touting a rapid recovery from confinement and claimed cures.
Col R Rdding and Dr Loui B Magid will be guests of Mr Jack Hart at Nicholson Place. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society meets this afternoon at 6. Various locals, visits and travels are listed, including Dr Petrie’s family, Mrs Lovelace, Mrs McMahan, Capt McMahan, and other city residents attending conventions and visiting relatives. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve advertised as genuine with DeWitt & Co. Chicago. Sold by The Orr Drug Co.
Local ad notes deep discounts on summer footwear and sale of wash goods, silks, trimmings, and trunks with emphasis on low prices and stock clearance. Includes notices of Chamberlain's tablets for cholera prevention and political candidacy, plus medical ads for indigestion remedies and a cold cure.
A collection of local notices from Athens Georgia includes bank ad copy for University Savings Bank and Bondurant & Co selling goods for sale and rental. It also features studio promotions for Motes Photo Studio and various requests for rooms and services. A health tonic advertisement promotes Electric Bitters as a preventive against self harm.
Prof E C Green of the Entomological Department at Taxis speaks in Athens on Monday about Georgia’s horticultural renown. He notes his visit as a student and finds profit in mingling with leading fruit growers and in the pleasant impression Athens and its people leave.
Liverpool Middling uplands 6.62 with 5 000 sales and 4 100 American. Receipts 5 000. New York Spots 12.7 steady. Athens Middling 12.25. Port receipts today estimated 100 last year 2 439. All figures reflect the day’s activity in global cotton trade.
The Northeast Georgia Fair Association advertising and amusements committee met at chairman O B Griffeths office. Present were O B Griffeth O H Painty and B F Holder Jr. They contracted for posters handbills and free attractions to draw crowds across nine counties including an electric fountain flying Baldwins a covert band a balloonist and day and night concerts. The panel plans strong free attractions and praises Griffeths for faithful service. A reader notes Dr King s New Discovery for consumption aiding recovery from coughs colds and lung troubles with guarantees and trial bottles.
Emphasizes Clifton flour’s superiority at Bransford Mills Owensboro Kentucky where Clifton’s flour is produced day and night but demand remains unmet. The claim that other flour is as good as Clifton only reinforces Clifton’s lead and Wingfield Gash Store cites the standard.
Louise DuBose of the city leads a drive to raise about ten thousand dollars for a silver service to be presented to the battleship Georgia. She seeks aid from state boards of trade and chambers of commerce, sending letters to their secretaries requesting substantial contributions.
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