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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1904
Page
2
The Athens Daily Banner outlines subscription rates and submission rules for notices, stressing real names and in person submissions. It also surveys political chatter, with items on Tammany Cleveland Hearst and responses from papers like Augusta Chronicle and Savannah Press, plus opinions on war, tariffs, and bread prices.
The article argues the Panama project will be harder than Suez, needing acclimated workers from Jamaica and Caribbean islands due to climate. It stresses a year to improve sanitation along the route and draining marshes before work starts. Estimates call for forty thousand laborers over eight years, suggesting completion in 1911 or 1912 at best.
An old newspaper fragment touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills as remedies for scrofula and general debility, with a customer testimonial from Parker City Indiana. It also mentions "The Tables Turned" and a tale of an Indian officer, followed by a note on electric bitters as a cure for liver and kidney disorders and general fatigue.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from Mas Nordau about Suabians plus a Virginia winter tale. It includes a conjurer’s cabinet trick, a witty exchange, a Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy testimony from Melfa Station, and a detective’s question about a hangdog look used to identify a husband.
Mia Gertrude E Fenner of Marion Ind. credits One Minute Cough Cure with curing a deep seated long cough and pneumonial weakness that left her at 93 pounds. After trying many remedies, four bottles restored her weight to 148 pounds and her general health. Sold by all druggists.
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