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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1903
Page
3
A French painter Benjamin Constant, invited to Fes, learns Moroccans view black garments as vulgar. He wears his evening attire, provokes laughter, and a sultan samples the hat, dismissing it as hideous. A political party notes a former baseball player as treasurer and questions his fitness beyond a base hit.
Advert reads Stuart's Gin and Buchu as a direct remedy for Bright's Disease, diabetes, gravel, and urinary issues. It claims deep seated kidney and bladder cures, promises relief of a burning urge, thick urine with sediment, and nerve restoration. Cites 896 past cures, offers $1 bottles and 15,000 free samples from Stuart Drug Co., Atlanta.
The Central of Georgia railway offers excursion tickets to mountain and lake resorts in the North, Bast and West, plus eastern cities via Savannah and steamship lines to Tybee. Through sleeping-car service, with schedules and rates available from local ticket offices and agents in Athens, Ga.
A crowded page lists photographers and studios in Athens offering portraits and styles, with claims of top work and medals. It also advertises vegetables, fruit, and berries from local growers, typewriters for sale, groceries, and medicines. Several notices promote remedies for stomach and digestive issues, with testimonials and dealer names in Athens area.
A fragmentary survey traces eighteenth century medicine citing ivory preparations and spodium for a range of ailments, notes on earthworms as soil renovators, and a sensational Botanic Blood Balm advertisement promising cures for blood and skin diseases. It also retells a London man’s quixotic quest for deviled kidneys, ridiculing the butcher’s patience.
A period ad cites Captain D W Welsh of Wood County Infirmary Parkersburg WV praising Dean's Kidney Pills for curing kidney complaints in himself his wife and sister with a 50 cent price per box. It urges care to avoid diabetes Bright's disease and notes sale by H R Palmer & Sons and sole agents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. It also endorses Clifton flour and Chamberlains Pain Balm with a germane customer testimonial from Germantown Cal.
St Elmo Lodge No 40 Knights of Pythias meets every Monday at 7 30 PM in the Castle hall Max Joseph building corner Clayton and Wall streets Visitors invited Address phone 202 Officers A W C O ZIER T H Moxerson K of RB and S
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