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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
8
A collection of local classified snippets and ads from Athens. Items include insurance and banking pitches, bicycle promotion, taxi service, land and property listings, wood for sale, sewing machines, lost muff, meal supply, piano sales, employment requests, a Buick Roadster for sale, health remedies, car battery service, and auto care ads. Each entry notes contact details or locations within Athens.
A small purse containing money was found at Michael's. owner may recover by calling 853 and identifying. The notice mentions Paper Shell prices at 40 50 and 60 cents and lists Rufus Mows at 5t with a contact phone.
A touted remedy named Rheuma claims to drive rheumatic poisons from the body and abolish misery. Marketed by H. R. Palmer & Sons and druggists, it offers a no-cure-no-pay promise. A large bottle is inexpensive and a two day small-dose regimen should reveal relief after years of pain.
An Athens resident, Mrs. A. Sutherland of 568 Pulaski St, credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with relieving her decade long kidney trouble. She reports back pain, headaches, dizziness, and weakness improved after using the remedy bought at Smith & Bro’s Drug Store, priced 60 cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y. distributes the product.
Washington Dec. 4 The All Russian government Omi accepts and will honor all liabilities of the Russian government except those of the Bolshevik regime as authorized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and received in Washington today.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh, arguing local applications fail because disease is constitutional. It claims the medicine works through the blood on mucous surfaces, with testimonials promised and a Toledo, Ohio company backing.
General Pershing reports American and allied actions in France, detailing the July Marne fighting where the First and Second Divisions helped halt German assaults and captured prisoners and artillery. He notes the buildup of forces, the counteroffensive toward Solasson, and the battle at Soissons, Vierzy, and Beau Repaire, culminating in the St Mihiel preparations and the large air and artillery effort.
General Pershing details the Meuse-Argonne offensive from Sept 26 to Nov 6, noting 26,059 enemy prisoners and 468 guns captured. He discusses corps and divisions seizing key positions, linking efforts with French and British forces, and the broader American commitment of about 1.34 million combatants in France as the push toward Metz and a decisive victory accelerates.
A municipal election held yesterday ratified the primary from November 25. Four wards elected aldermen: R. T. Dottery from the first ward, W. C. Thornton from the second, Paul H. Smith from the third, and B. F. Woods from the fourth.
Railroad executives owning over ninety percent of the nation’s rail mileage meet in New York to set resolutions. They urge that the final period of federal control preserve efficiency and transfer roads back to private ownership smoothly.
Gainesville Ga December 4 The influenza epidemic prompts quarantine against public gatherings delaying the Presbyterian synod of Georgia from December 10 to a later date and place yet to be determined. Business Girls Bible Class invites young women to YWCA Annex 393 West Hancock for a 6 45 supper and Bible lesson by Miss Cain followed by a short talk on current topics by Miss Mary Bacon.
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