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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1904
Page
2
The Athens Daily Banner outlines delivery options for city carriers and mail, with annual and semiannual rates and payment methods. It asks subscribers to report late or missing deliveries to the business office, and provides telephone contacts for business and editorial rooms.
A mixed reader letter and news digest urges readers to mail notices with real names, laments time limits for phone submissions, and reports on local projects. It mentions Mercer University physician updates, Senate attention to Rui Smoot, and Savannah club plans for Grover Cleveland supporters. It also recaps London-Chilian naval intrigue and Seward era diplomacy.
The editorial details current naval strength and construction in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. It cites 12 battleships in commission, 12 more under construction, and total tonnage leading to a forecast of becoming the second strongest navy with Britain ahead in raw tonnage and efficiency. It notes pending bills adding battleships and cruisers and 300 additional sailors.
The text parps about mood and health remedies urging Hood's Pills for morning relief. It mentions tutors at Eton and a mood of doubt about conclusions. Names and places are garbled but imply a scholarly setting and questions of guilt or punishment.
In a winter 1902 Virginia town Mrs. John E Harmon of Melfa Station recounts her baby’s dreadful cold and near pneumonia. She credits Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with curing the child after neighbor stories of its success with a boy. She urges others to try it, thanking Palmer & Sons and W J Smith & Bro for making it available.
A river steamboat captain asked for a cold remedy. I recommended Cheney's Expectorant, and he reported half a bottle cured him. Alonzo J. Ellis. New Orleans, La.
An odd column discusses cats and olives enjoying treats, then shifts to medical advice on deafness. It explains ear tube inflammation causing hearing loss, claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can treat catarrh and offers a $100 reward for cured cases, with testimonials and a druggist endorsement.
A city meeting features a cross section of remarks about expressions and gender, noting it was attended entirely by women. The exchange includes a quip on a toad in puddles and a light domestic joke about impulsive words and marital prudence.
Any child can take Little Early Risers with perfect safety. They are harmless and never gripe or sicken, and yet they are 80 certain in results that robust constitutions requiring drastic means are never disappointed. They cannot fail to perform their mission and every one who uses DeWitts Little Early Risers prefer them to all other pills. They cure biliousness, Sold by all draggists.
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