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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1914
Page
2
Mrs Benton questions a missing ingredient in a savory dish while her husband insists nothing was left out. Summer coughs are dangerous and can lead to lung troubles. Dr Kings New Discovery relieves coughs and colds promptly with a money back guarantee, available in 50c and 1.00 bottles at the druggist.
Judge Charles H Brand in Athens Ga on August 8 1914 appoints Henry T D Comer to succeed Jas W Morton and W W Scott to succeed R W Lamkin as jury revisors. M M Arnold to succeed Andrew le Erwin with resignations accepted. Appointees must qualify and await further orders while awaiting the digest copy from Tax Receiver J H Dorsey.
A buyer laments delaying painting due to cost and forecasts higher yearly expenses. He estimates one gallon per 10 square feet and one day per ten units of work, noting last year’s cost about 50 dollars and this year 55 dollars. He resolves not to wait and mentions Devoe at Talmage Hardware Co.
A controversial view on modern culture questions child rearing while praising Eugenics for motherhood. The text asserts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restores health in wives and enables brave sons and fair daughters to rise up and bless the mother.
Trustees of Bessie Tift College appoint Rev E W Stone to complete a $300000 endowment drive. About $200000 has been subscribed and $100000 remains. Stone, a Virginia born Southern educator, aims to secure Christian education through Baptist support and pastor collaborations across Georgia and the South.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Porters Antiseptic Healing Oil as curing old sores and severe cases. It promises relief from pain and healing, with prices 25c 50c and 1.00.
The Banner presents a Page of Presidents as an advertising experiment, claiming direct and indirect benefits to advertisers and readers through featured ads and questions about presidents. Also notes a bed-wetting remedy ad and a quarter-slot employment device from Los Angeles, offering cheap, low-risk job cards.
Egyptologists reveal a foundry at Ortu Commi with copper ore and bronze age furnaces. The site preserves smelting furnaces and casting molds abandoned thousands of years ago in the transition from stone to bronze. Sardinian foundry methods appear sophisticated for the era.
Summer constipation is described as more dangerous than in other seasons with toxic food, cold water intake, and resulting ailments like colic fever and poisoning. Po Do Lax is promoted as a bile-increasing laxative that clears congested waste, with a nightly dose and a 50 cent price.
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