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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
6
Mrs L Moyne stars in a new atel vehicle titled Among Those Present at the opera house Saturday night. The play satirizes reckless dress and luxurious living under playwright Glen Mac Monough. The leading character Mrs Clinton typifies American society as she navigates social pressures and learns there are things more valuable than social prestige.
Items include a freight settlement of 4 979 15 for a 169 carload train of Good Luck baking powder, local social notes about Miss Lillian Booth and Miss Carrie Lampkin, visitors and travel mentions, a sweet potato ad from M M Arnold, and an 1886 Hall's Catarrh Cure testimonial from F J Cheney & Co in Toledo.
Instructions on cooking with milk dipped onions fried bacon fat and ham wrapping. Tips on making sauces clove lemon tea parsimonious prep for pies with meringue. Parboiling turnips with baking soda for better flavor. Then a note from Lealies Weekly describing the sea lion bite as poisonous and powerful, with quick neck motion and a yank that tears flesh.
Mrs W H Davis hosted a Tuesday afternoon card party for about twenty women with artistic score cards. Prizes included a picture won by Miss Annie Camak and a consolation shared by Mrs Hull and Mrs Haselton. The article also notes a quiet wedding at Crawford the same day between Mr James N Stokely and Miss Ora F Moore with Rev P W Davis officiating.
FOR SALE Let Fine Berkshire pigs Albert Davison A Texas Wonder for sale Hall's Great Discovery claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles with one bottle lasting two months Evidence from a Greenfield Tennessee testimonial dated March 30 1901 praises the remedy and recommends it to the public Manufacturer Dr E W Hall of St Louis Missouri sells through druggists and mail order with testimonials included
Athens shoppers see a sweeping sale on embroideries Cambric Nainsook and Hamburg Edgings with inserts and matching laces. One thousand yards of white goods Madras shirtings and fine flannel and gingham selections offered at deep discounts as part of a closing out sale with blanket and undergarment specials and reduced cloaks suits and tailor goods.
Short notes list items for sale and services including Tenney's Fine Candies fresh shipment and exclusive agency, Christmas timing for orders, positions wanted by a young experienced office man or bookkeeper, several rental offers on Milledge avenue Washington Street and Thomas Street, a lost white pearl rosary, a large new mule shipment from W S Holman & Co with inviting prices, and requests to visit the stock.
S W Watts reports in Collier's Weekly about caribou hunting in Newfoundland. Big stags require multiple shots, sometimes continue running 200 yards after being hit, and the first kill a fawn yielded tough, dark meat due to recent weaning and mating season stress.
Medieval artists assigned emblems to the apostles reflecting legends and scriptures. Veter bears keys, Paul a sword and book, Andrew a X-shaped cross, James the Great a sword or pilgrim staff, John a caldron, Philip a spear and cross, Bartholomew a knife, Matthew a square, Jude a spear, James the Less a club, Matthias an ax, Simon a saw, each tied to martyrdom or roles.
An old advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It notes all druggists refund the money if it fails and that E. W. Grove’s signature appears on each box.
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