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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1904
Page
4
An advertisement extols Dr Greene's Nervura as the grandest remedy and surest cure for nervous prostration insomnia rheumatism weakness and debility. It claims the medicine strengthens nerves muscles and brain while purifying the blood and making the user well. Your local druggist sells Nervura.
Garden Seeds from T. W. Wood & Son at John L. Arnold's. latest wallpaper designs. barber college training from Moler in New Orleans. employment offers from a mercantile house with $1800 weekly first year. tomato plants advertised. visit John L. Arnold's for paints and drugs.
Brazilian Flour Corn Seed offered by W. P. Vonderan at 25 cents a quart 1 per gallon 83 per peck with limited supply. Inquiries from many sections of the country urge quick orders. John L. Arnold guarantees goods as represented and sells paints drugs and picture frames and artist materials.
Federal authorities report a bold plot to rob a northbound train in Mississippi. Jim Paris, a negro, boarded Meridian yards as the train pulled out and killed J R Stockton, wounded A J Bass, seized registered mail, and leaped off. Bass survived, Stockton was killed. Paris was crushed by a car wheel while fleeing and captured later in Meridian. A lynching mob formed. Governor Vardaman ordered troops to guard the prisoner.
An advertisement touts Hyomei as a stomach-free cure for catarrh with inhalation therapy and a $1 outfit. It also promotes Botanic Blood Balm as a remedy for blood poison, cancer signs, and skin issues, claiming extensive cures and offering samples and guidance from Blood Balm Co. Atlanta.
In Indianapolis on February 29, coal operators and miners from Indiana Illinois Pennsylvania and West Virginia met in a joint conference to agree on the coming year’s wage scale. About 800 miners and as many operators attended as adjournment was taken for further talks with no business completed. President Mitchell of the United Miners attended and a failure to resolve wage terms could trigger a large scale strike and widespread economic crippling if protracted.
Colonel Jere Baxter died this morning after over five weeks of illness. He led in Tennessee military affairs and commerce, was a long time railroad president at Memphis and Charleston and founder of the Tennessee Central Railway. Funeral will be held tomorrow.
A Harrisburg mother reported her two year old daughter slept poorly until half a Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablet eased her stomach trouble. After two boxes the child is healthy and sleeping through the night. H. R. Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro. advertise the remedy. In Chicago, Messenger Boys Strike paralyzes deliveries as minors protest potential hiring of female carriers. Strikers, paid two dollars daily, are aided by AF of L locals while men fill duties amid disruptions.
An advertisement claims Happy, Healthy Children can take Little Early Risers with perfect safety and no one will be disappointed by their results. The pills are said to cure biliousness and are sold by all druggists, with universal consumer preference over other pills.
An old style ad blends Drake palm wine tonic claims for curing stomach and bladder ills with a large job placement notice offering openings for secretaries clerks and engineers. The mix shows medicinal cure claims alongside employment offers and dubious postal trial details.
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