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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1903
Page
5
A historical health ad claims the mirror shows harsh truth about blemishes and warns against external cosmetics. It touts purifying the blood as the cure, promoting 8. 8. the well known blood purifier as a superior, vegetarian remedy that does not disturb digestion.
A local lodge directory lists Knights of Pythias Theta No 40 meeting Mondays at 7 20 in Castle Hall Max Joseph building corner Clayton and Wall Streets with visiting knights invited. Keystone Chapter No 1 Royal Arch Masons meets third Tuesday at 8 in Joseph building lodge room. Mount Vernon Lodge No 22 F and A M meets second Thursday at Masonic hall Clayton Street. Avery Lodge No 700 BPO Elks meets Wednesday at 4 5 o'clock at Moss building Clayton. Gense Lodge No 75 I O O F meets Tuesday at 8 in Carlton building. Odd Fellows and other fraternal orders are noted with meeting nights and locations in Clayton and Jackson streets.
A boiler explosion at Minnesota Lumber mill in Cutting near Waycross Georgia killed one worker and seriously injured seven. The blast wrecked the mill and hurled a 75 foot feed house 200 feet away, with about 60 men employed and danger limited by early hour.
The Tallulah Falls Railway Company issues Time Table No. 38 effective Sunday June 28 1903 in Eastern Time with schedule details.
In Paris a jury trial opens for Therese Humbert, Frederic Humbert, and Emile d Aurignac on forgery and swindling charges tied to a vast inheritance scheme. Crowds flood Palais de Justice as diplomats, artists, and officials observe, while Therese appears defiant. Ebullient public interest fuels one of the era’s most famous fraud cases.
The Georgia House passed by 116 to 11 a bill to create a seven member state board of health to be appointed by the governor with a secretary earning 2000 dollars. The measure, urged by physicians and approved by Governor Terrell, aims to improve public health at minimal cost. The session also sent measures to the Senate and adjourned until Monday.
Dispatch from Constantinople reports widening insurgent activity in Macedonia with Banja forces in the Sanjak of Uskub and Krushevo district and four Bulgarian villages in Dibra rising. Albanian villages react. authorities claim calm and urging Mussulmen restraint. Twelve battalions of reliefs called in Serfije and Monastir vilayet.
An old advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure promises a One Hundred Dollars reward for incurable catarrh and includes testimonials from Toledo wholesalers. The second note reports a $200,000 shortage in Dunlay Dunlap accounts, tied to a former official and his estate, now stated to be made good.
An old allegory contrasts a girl stepping on a snake with a man building a cyclone cellar while neglecting to provide his family with Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The ad claims the remedy is the prompt reliable medicine for bowel complaints and lists H.R. Palmer & Son and W. J. Smith & Bro as sellers.
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