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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1914
Page
5
In Chicago and Dayton, Mrs. M R Karscunick and Mrs. J W Sherer credit Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with alleviating female troubles and headaches, saving them from surgery. The letters praise the product and offer confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
Several residents announce candidacies for Georgia's Clarke County seats in the General Assembly and district races. Names include O H Arnold Jr J Rhodes L C Brown H H Gordon and candidates in the Eighth district of Georgia and the 30th senatorial district.
H J Rowe seeks a Clarke county seat in the Legislature subject to Democratic party rules. State Treasurer W W Speer runs again, asking Georgia voters for endorsement in the Democratic primary citing his faithful and efficient management. Charles H Brand announces his bid to reelect as judge of the Superior Court in the Western Judicial Circuit.
Special to the Banner reports Fulton county shows low jewelry value at 251 500 and car totals of 813 375 while Clarke Athens area totals 13 033 150. Clarke population about 22 500 versus Fulton around 185 000. Fulton’s rise outpaces Clarke twelvefold in tax growth.
Commerce Georgia prepares for the fourteenth division semiannual session of the Odd Fellows to be held August 17 and 18 with speakers including Worthy Grand Master W B Sloan Grand Secretary T H Robertson and Dr Thomas B Bonner. Col R L J Smith guides the event as Division Deputy Grand Master with I C O F Lodge No 30 among the largest in the division.
Rev W F Dorsey of Mount Calvary Methodist hosts a district conference in Lawrenceville with Ambrose T Green delivering the welcome. The gathering includes three colored presiding elders forty preachers about fifty Sunday school superintendents and around one hundred fifty delegates.
A summary of recent results across the American League National League Federal League Southern League and South Atlantic region plus a testimonial endorsing Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy by Geo W Brock publisher of the Enterprise Aberdeen Md for sale by all dealers.
Two hundred fifty Franklin County farmers visited the State College of Agriculture for Franklin County Day. The group toured livestock exhibits and farm facilities, learned about the college’s work, and planned a larger delegation next year, with the county the first to send such a delegation.
Gov Slaton is booked to address Franklin county residents at the Farm ers Warehouse in Royston this morning at 10 o clock. Prospects for a large turnout are reported by the local paper Royston.
Mr. Thomas Felder, candidate for the United States Senate, spoke at Monroe yesterday morning to a good ly audience.
A Mt Airy reader recounts relief from long womanly and stomach ailments after six bottles of Cardui. She urges other women to try the tonic, claiming it helped many. The ad directs readers to obtain Cardui from druggists and to write for literature.
Public notice style advertisement praising Sloan's Liniment for insect bites disinfecting wounds and Foley Kidney Pills for rheumatism relief. Markets H. R. Palmer & Sons as sellers with money back claim and price 25 cents.
A lively exchange shows a mother teasing whether her daughter is an equestrian or valedictorian as she jokes about class offices being confusing 60. The playful lines reflect school life and student achievement dynamics.
Young Men’s Christian Association leagues featured a seven to six Wood win in a 11 inning junior game between Capt Wood and Capt Matthews. A rainy Sanford Field water polo exhibition followed as Capt Earnest Jackson’s team beat Hodgson four to one in wet conditions.
The forecast predicts unsettled weather tonight and Saturday with possible thundershowers for Atlanta and vicinity. Georgia and Alabama face similar unsettled conditions with locally thundery showers and overall cloudy skies. Regions south of the Ohio River remain mostly cloudy with widespread rain at many points and several rainfall readings are listed, while west of the Mississippi rain fades except Texas.
Governor Slaton addressed several hundred voters at Winder yesterday afternoon after morning remarks in Lawrenceville. He touted Barrow County as a prospective capital and urged support.
An advertisement for Foley cathartic tablets claims they regulate the system, prevent biliousness and indigestion, and help a stout person feel thinner and more comfortable with constant use. H. R. Palmer & Sons.
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