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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1912
Page
6
The Athens post office labor story shows city carriers delivering mail since 1891. In the last week they made 15 820 stops, traveled 881 miles on foot, and delivered 35 148 pieces of mail weighing 3 973 pounds.
Prof. John Burroughs, famed essayist and bird observer, visits Beaulieu in Savannah with Prof. R. J. H. DeLoach. He praises Georgia hospitality, discusses nature writing, Roosevelt, and breeding trends, and plans to stay a week while gathering material and enjoying southern scenery.
The Fat from The Flower Vegetarians argue there are ten kinds of animal fat not replaceable with vegetable fats. They claim lard from hog fat is unhealthy and impure, while Cottolene, a cotton plant vegetable oil shortening, digests easily and is as good as butter at a similar price.
An advertisement touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a gentle safe laxative and tonic from Hot Springs Chemical Co. in Hot Springs Arkansas. It claims relief for biliousness coated tongue dizziness indigestion and constipation with a 25 cent box available at H R Palmer and Sons.
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