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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1904
Page
2
The Athens Daily Banner lists delivery options by carrier or mail with annual and half year prices. It notes cash advance policy, payment methods, and to notify the business office for delivery issues to address complaints.
The text urges readers to send notices with real names to The Banner office, notes rules for publication, and discusses a stream of political commentary from the era. Topics include Athens depot, Georgia building funds, Hearst for president, Jim Tillman for Congress, and British Parliament events.
A critical comparison notes Springfield Ohio mob violence against a black community after a police killing and Columbus Georgia's unveiling of a monument to Bragg Smith, who died in a 1903 cave-in rescue attempt. The piece argues which community truly honors Black people.
Editor of the Macon Telegraph condemns Hearst for wealth funded sensationalism and hidden public persona. He argues Hearst has shown no demonstrable ability in four months in Congress and would degrade American manners and the Democratic party if nominated.
A department official urges a campaign against newspaper guessing contests, describing officials as straining at gnats while swallowing camels in their rhetoric.
The text promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a tonic that adds to the physical by aiding digestion digestion and absorption of food. It claims to build strength in the human system and to be pleasant to taste and effective in enabling the body to utilize health giving qualities. Sold by all druggists.
A collection of quips on humor and social quirks from the Atchison Globe and Youth's Companion. The items note the tax of laughter, cemetery gossip, and enduring patience in marriage, with a cartoonish tale of Halliday twins and a cousin's question about Elnora and Eudora.
Old Brother Cooley recalls a haunted house experience in which a fire burned in his room as a door opened and a man with a throat cut shook his head. He feared being discovered as a ghost and chose not to ask the intruder what he wanted.
A fragment from a Virginia story recalls a winter 1902 incident about Mrs. Harmon of Melfa Station and a neighbor praising Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The note includes testimonials on cures, then shifts to brief mock dialogue and ads for Witch Hazel Salve by E. O. DeWitt & Co. among other notices.
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