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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1905
Page
2
The notice outlines subscription prices for The Athens Banner and Weekly Banner and urges prompt payment and delivery complaints. It then surveys contemporary political topics and opinions, citing Lawsonitis, tariff debates, Japanese treatment of POWs, and remarks on U S policy and public figures including Bristow, Chadwick, Mrs Duke, Castro, and Missouri Governor Folk amid national partisan tensions.
Editorial voice urges annual public observance of General Robert E. Lee birthday across Georgia and nearby states. Athens should organize a citywide movement to teach youths Lee's principles, virtues, and well rounded life without stirring bitterness or sectionalism. Also discusses Judge Jones defense of Roosevelt and southern attitudes toward the president.
The Athens business community is urged to back the Athens to Jefferson railroad project. About 50 citizens have funded parts of the target twenty thousand dollars, with a Chamber of Commerce committee seeking four thousand six hundred more from other business leaders. The movement is portrayed as sound business, backed by prominent local figures, to secure terminals and city limits. The piece ends noting pneumonia mortality surpasses consumption as medical science advances.
A mother reports hiding Scott's Emulsion from her children who drank it when unsupervised. She notes the product is good for them and oddly makes children feel comfortable and become rosy-cheeked, suggesting why kids enjoy it despite parental caution.
There is more catarrh in this section than all other diseases. For years doctors called it local and failed to cure. Science shows it is constitutional. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional remedy. It is taken internally and claims to affect the blood and mucous membranes. Offers one hundred dollars for any failure to cure. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Include Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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