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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
3
An advertisement from The S S S Company of Atlanta GA extols a blood purifier and tonic for malaria. It describes malaria symptoms and causes, promotes S S S as the cure, and offers free medical advice and a Mook on Blood and Skin Diseases. It urges readers to begin treatment in spring.
A fragment describes a narrow street in Henares crowded with temples and shops toward the river. A dead rat at a dwelling precedes a funeral procession and cremation rites for a saintly Indian prince, with mourners guiding a corpse wrapped in rastin toward the pyre. Professor A V W Jackson notes the crowd and the ritual path.
An American tourist in London faces stares and delays in a shoe shop as clerks try on many boats. English customers watch condescendingly while two women remark that British ladies have wider feet due to walking. The scene ends with the traveler asking if they walk on hands.
A naturalist notes that many wild and domestic creatures yield to calm patient handling. Natives filmily touch big cats and elephants, while trout, rats, and even sea beasts are moved by careful, fearless contact and precise technique.
A survey of marriage customs and social habits from Europe and beyond. The piece notes how Hungarian Gypsy and Burmese maidens pursue suitors with tricks, lamp signals and love offerings. It also covers arsenic use for beauty and strength, along with a nurse anecdote about orange care and a Bonn professor's tracing of a drunkard’s lineage.
The piece notes Savoy chapel misnamed chapel royal as the Hospital of St Jes the Traptist with old private access, once a favored site for discreet weddings, now reformed by law yet still used for quiet ceremonies. It also recounts Thomas Jefferson preferring farming, with a Monticello garden excerpt and July garden tasks.
A fire destroyed Lundyfoot tobacconist shop and exposed half baked snuff among the debris. He tasted it, found it improved by heat, and promptly began baking snuff in ovens. The so called Blackyard guuft gained fame and brought him immense wealth from a mere accident.
A Scientific American correspondent explains heating a razor in boiling water before stropping. He notes the blade cools as stropping and that about twenty five strokes sharpen the edge, which is keener when cold due to metal contraction.
A remedy claims to stop coughing in crowded venues by inhaling perfume from a handkerchief. The note humorously cites the method to nip a coughing fit in the bud. The item then shares brief quips about servant searches and social plans at a musicale with punny exchanges.
A compact set of aphorisms on friendship truth and tenderness from Emerson and light humor from Washington Star and Smart Set. The excerpts juxtapose sincerity and gentleness as central to enduring friendship and social ease in everyday life.
The Atchison Globe quotes a maxim about life and a pun on a tack filled board. It notes a man who is constantly correcting himself may be slightly crooked. The piece uses a folksy aphorism to illustrate resilience and caution.
Indigestion and stomach disorders are blamed for weakness and disease as a patient testimonials praise Kodol Digests What You Eat. The ad claims the stomach cannot transform food to blood and promises restoration of strength. Mrs J W Copsaicu of Milo Center New York endorses the remedy after two months of use.
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