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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1903
Page
4
An old advertorial fragment promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Pleasant Pellets as cures for female weakness and related ailments. It touts strengthening effects and relief from uterine and other feminine health issues, claiming benefits for sick and weak women and urging use as a remedy.
Town social items list illness returns of Mr Parkes at the National Bank, teachers convention in Cumberland Island, Epworth League practice at Dr Qulhan's home, and various visits and travel of local residents. Also includes medical ad for Botanic Blood Balm, a lodge meeting notice, and a post office letter list with names and towns.
A compilation of local notices lists University Savings Bank Athens Georgia with a capital of 40000 and savings deposits, rental ads for apartments and cottages, typewriter sales, stenography job, hotel and travel appeals for White Sulphur Springs, and a city schools examination notice. Also included are local shop promos, photo studio ads, fruit and egg offerings, and a testimonial for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy from a Sentinel reprint.
Wingfield Cash Grocery Store advertises Braneford's Clifton flour for summer baking. It claims a light white loaf that stays moist longer than soft winter wheat flour and offers a guarantee.
The Southern Railway offers weekend tickets at greatly reduced prices through September 12. One fare for round trips on Saturdays to Atlanta and Tallulah Falls Georgia, plus tickets on all trains Saturdays to Asheville Hot Springs Arden Fletcher Hendersonville Flat Rock Saluda and Tryon NC, valid for return until the following Tuesday. Details and schedules available from R W Sizer in Athens GA G P A H Hardwick Washington DC W H Tayloe Atlanta GA.
An irregular collage of ad copy and testimonials cites benefactors like Andrew Carnegie and moral exhortations on sympathy. It also includes a medicinal pitch for Hill's Catarrh Cure with endorsements from Toledo wholesalers and a price of 75 cents per bottle, plus a note on Hall's Family Pills.
Proverbial lines discuss advice from wives and money men, the fleeting joy of seven days, and enduring sadness. It notes beauty versus intelligence, mutual influence between two people, and the limits of words and deeds in service or intercession.
Central of Georgia railway promotes excursion tickets to northern, eastern and western resorts this summer. Travel via Savannah with steamship access to Tybee and other seaside resorts. Detailed rate and schedule information available from local ticket agents or company agents in Athens, Ga.
The Seaboard Air Line announces sale of round trip tickets July 7 to 10 with final limit July 15, extended to August 15 by deposit with special agent in Atlanta. Athens to Atlanta rate 32 44 cents, three trains daily, extra coaches to handle demand. Side trips to mountain and seashore resorts offered. For details contact J Z Hoke Athens Ga or J A Von Dohlen Atlanta 116 Peachtree St. W and C Christian Asst Gen Passen.
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