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Newspaper

Athens Banner

Location

Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Feb 18, 1905

Page

4

Free Trip to Oklahoma Promoted by Frisco Townsite Company

The Frisco Townsite Company offers a trip to Oklahoma with return and five days of hotel bills for an investment of three shares of stock in the Town site of OLD WATER OKLAHOMA. The investment is pitched as valuable since the new town sits in a thickly settled Oklahoma area and is expected to grow to 3,000 to 10,000 residents in the coming years. The company is described as long established and reliable, with Dozier Realty at 14 College Ave as a contact for further information.

Frisco Oklahoma Bil Ooldwater Dozier Realty College Ave

Job Printing Offered With Satisfaction Guarantee

An advertisement announces reliable job printing services with a guarantee of satisfaction. It highlights printing for business needs and promises quality work.

Train Schedules Show Seaboard Line Arrivals and Departures

The Seaboard Air Line timetable lists arrival and departure times for trains. Schedule details cover station stops and service hours, aiding travelers in planning routes along the line.

Seaboard Air Line Sutiound

Georgia peach crop outlook in Adairsville and Fort Valley

Adairsville reports Elberta peach buds damaged up to 60 percent with some growers seeing as low as 50 percent survival while Fort Valley notes about half the Elberta buds likely killed. Despite damages, remaining buds may still yield a full peach crop for all varieties if no further injury occurs as Elberta buds bloom earliest. Actors and singers reportedly rely on Piso’s Cure 42 years.

Adairsville

House Accepts Willard Statue

Washington reports the House met at noon due to a debate mix up on the naval appropriation bill. The prayer referenced Frances E. Willard statue acceptance later that day, praising her purity, intellect, eloquence, and devotion to home state and humanity.

Washington Frances E. Willard

Covington Faces Power Outage and Candle Shortage

Covington Georgia enters nights of near darkness as the electric plant ceases operations during a cold spell. A kerosene supply shortage ends lamp use, with stores exhausted and oil deliveries halted since the last freeze. A local price spike may reach one dollar per gallon for lighting oil.

Covington Standard Oil Company

A Romance of Abraham Lincoln Explained

The Atchison Globe notes a tale from Bloomington Illinois about Lincoln loving Ann Rutledge before Mary Todd. It claims Lincoln delayed their wedding due to grief and later married Todd in 1841, a union described as unhappy.

Ite Lincoln Miss Todd Ann Rutledge Atkison Kan Globe

Bucklen's Arnica Salve Proclaimed Healing Burns

Norfolk Virginias C Rivenbark Jr reports a severe knee burn blistered but Bucklens Arnica Salve stopped the pain and healed without a scar. The salve also heals wounds and sores and costs 25 cents at local druggists W J Smith Bro and J R Palmer & Sons.

Bucklen C. Rivenbark, Jr Norfolk W. J. Smith Bro J. R. Palmer & Sons

Lost Treasure Tales Surprising Eggs and Potatoes

A Coventry style column recalls odd discoveries such as 38 pins in a breakfast egg and a penny found inside a Bedford hen’s egg. It also recounts a Spitalfields market gardener finding a hidden half crown inside a potato, with similar “money-making” myths including a shark news sheet and a Milford Haven trawler haul linking a Miss Macdonald to land in Ireland.

Bedford Spitalfields Market Australia

Chamberlains Cough Remedy Trusted by Mothers

Chamberlains Cough Remedy praised for soothing cures and pleasant taste. It is favored by mothers for colds croup and whooping cough with quick relief and no opium. Sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro.

Confederate Flags May Be Returned to States

Washington February 17 the house committee on military affairs approved a favorable report on a joint resolution directing that union and confederate flags held by the war department be returned to the authorities in the states where the regiments that carried them were organized.

Committee On Military Affairs War Department

Dean’s Kidney Pills Praise by Athens Farmer

A rural testimonial from P. G. Robinson between Athens and Barberville says Dean's Kidney Pills cured his backache and kidney symptoms within 48 hours. He praises improved strength, regular clear secretions, and now life without pain. Sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons. 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents.

Athens P. G. Robinson Barberville Dean H. R. Palmer & Sons Foster—Milburn Co Uffalo N. Y United States Devil

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