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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
5
The ad proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming constitutional treatment. It offers a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure and urges readers to send for testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's family pills for constipation.
A mother from Holly Spring North Carolina credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with saving her baby girl from a severe bronchitis after measles. she tried eight stores to find the remedy before success. The medicine is described as pleasant and safe, and is sold by several Athens Georgia vendors.
The narrative recounts a civic effort led by Martha Holsey and the Athens Women’s Club to establish a home for colored children. A plan calls for renting a clean cottage, placing a colored caregiver in charge, and providing two meals daily while mothers go to work. The project aims to save children from streets, train them in useful duties, and support mothers through a monthly contribution, with club funds supplementing. A mass meeting at the colored Ath ens Baptist church garnered broad support, and organizers conveyed the plan to the community, with the home slated to open January 1st.
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut credits Foley's Kidney Cure with curing his kidney and bladder issues after multiple treatments. He reports improvement after two bottles and full cure after five, enabling him to pass a life insurance medical.
In Washington, December 1, Democratic senators vie for vacancies on Senate committees. Milley chairs a bloc of seasoned appointees, including Bacon, Martin, Tillman, Claire, Stone, Simmons, Newlands, and Culberson, ensuring long-serving members retain favored positions. Southern river and harbor reform gains momentum as the National Rivers and Harbors Congress spurs southern development.
The annual report by Secretary Strauss of the Department of Commerce and Labor shows 1,285,349 aliens admitted in the last fiscal year, up 184,614 from 1906. The average money brought in is about 320 per person, and 30 percent of arrivals were literate. About $19,000 foreigners departed for other lands during the year.
Guthrie Oklahoma December 11 The Oklahoma legislature today in separate sessions elected as United States senators Robert Latham Owen and Thowits Prior Gore, democrats. Owen was born at Lynchburg Virginia February 2 1858. He is of Scotch Irish ancestry with a Cherokee Indian blood. His father Robert Owen was a Confederate soldier and later vice president of the Tennessee and Virginia railroad. The senator's mother was a daughter of Chisholm the last hereditary war chief of the Cherokee nation. Senator Owen was educated at Kingston and Lee university. Since he has practiced law in Indian Territory. In 1884 President Cleveland appointed him Indian agent for the five civilized tribes. He has been active in the political affairs of the territory. Senator Gore has the double distinction of being the first blind member of the United States senate and of being the youngest in that body being only 37 years old. His sight was destroyed in childhood when he was a page in the senate of Mississippi, his native state. He was educated at Cumberland University Lebanon Tenn.
A public speaker was interrupted by frequent coughing, with an advertisement promising Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for coughs and colds, preventing pneumonia and consumption. The genuine product is in a yellow package and contains no opiates, sold by all druggists.
New York, December 11. A penalty of $500 a minute, the heaviest ever by the city, is set in a contract with the New York Edison Company. The firm must provide adequate power to operate pumps from the new high pressure water mains between Chambers and Twenty third streets within three minutes after a fire alarm. The service is to be completed tomorrow.
An ad extols clear-headedness and steady nerves from proper nutrition. It claims coffee harms with caffeine and promotes Postum Food Coffee as rich in gluten and phosphates to fuel energy and vitality, ending with There’s a reason.
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