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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1914
Page
6
Unionville Missouri resident Martha Seavey credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing severe female trouble and weakness after doctors could not help. She reports improved appetite, sleep, speech, and strength and urges others to seek the medicine, written to the company in Lynn Mass.
A warning to beware colds and to treat them quickly using Chamberlains Cough Remedy. The ad touts prompt effective relief, pleasant taste, and forty years of reputation, with sales through all dealers.
Tax digest figures show Clarke County autos valued at 8101,285 while Fulton totals 852,160. The piece argues Clarke Athens autos are fewer but higher valued, sparking questions about fairness of assessments and property valuations across counties and cities.
The text extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as superior for coughs and colds and credits personal recommendations from cured users for its popularity. It urges readers to try it and notes that the medicine is for sale by all dealers.
The Associated Press reports windy weather in Kansas and a chill in Nebraska affecting the winter wheat crop. Traders fear damage from wind and dry soil, with no rain in sight for a week in the Southwest. Wheat prices opened steady to lower, then advanced on supply signals and district crop injury. Corn shows active buying as wheat strengthens.
Market news notes advancing prices for corn oats and wheat with limited rally after initial gains. Liverpool cotton opens steady with near month futures up a few points and American sales at 7 08 middling with steady tone and 10 000 bales sold.
The New York cotton market started active with 3 to 6 point gains on covering and new buying, driven by firm Southern spot markets and nervous shorts. Old crop positions rose 8 to 10 points, new crops 4 to 5 points. mid-day prices steadied near best with old crop 3 to 6 points up and new crop 2 to 3 points down, tone remaining steady at middling 13 4 cents.
Cotton futures in New Orleans opened steady and then rose 2 to 3 points before advancing 8 to 1 points on bullish Census Bureau consumption expectations. The gains narrowed as inactivity set in, with noon quotes showing 1 to 4 points higher and middling at 3 1/4 cents.
Congregational meeting in Commerce Georgia aims to finish the Presbyterian church within thirty days. Claude Little named chair of a new building committee with powers to contract and begin rapid completion. Ladies Union and Ladies Aid Society honored for prior efforts. April visits expected to celebrate the finished church. Also contains unrelated medical ads for tablets and Foley's Honey and Tar.
Readers are advised that a muddy or sallow complexion and dull eyes signal liver trouble. Cham berlain's Tablets are recommended as a remedy to improve appearance and well being.
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