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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1904
Page
4
An 1888 Choctaw chief Carpenter and white trader Price fought a deadly duel near the Creek Indian Agency after an insult. Both fired. Price died from a heart shot while Carpenter remained standing, later felled by Price’s bullet.
A physician links nagging to health, arguing mental distress harms digestion. Nervous, dissatisfied individuals may lose appetite and misdirect blood flow, leading to poor health. The piece notes nagging often accompanies thinness and stress.
A breaker boy stands before a squire in a West Virginia coal town charged with killing a scavenger from a tropical country. The squire, a German, fines him in a comic exchange, starting with 1ui and escalating to 8.75 dollars as the boy reveals his funds of three dollars and seventy-five cents.
A Munich professor links two brain growth spurts in girls and two in boys with ages ten eleven and seventeen eighteen for girls twelve thirteen and nineteen twenty for boys. The piece contrasts brain and body growth during early adolescence and cites a tongue in cheek exchange about Adam’s existence referencing a New York Telegraph line.
A Washington Star quotation captures Stor mington Barnes praising Shakespeare for endurance as the most remarkable trait. The remark follows a line about conscientious men often withholding rather than sharing, attributed to Landor.
An advertisement extols inherited diseases and urges a blood cleanse with Swift's Specific. It claims ailments like scrofula, rheumatism, catarrh, and contagious blood poison are bred in the bone and passed to children, promoting S.S.S. as a universal, plant based remedy from Atlanta, GA.
The article explains the complex system of securing a seat among the seventy on the French bourse. Costs range from 8,000,000 to 0.5,000,000 francs with annual profits 30,000 to 00,000 dollars, often shared among multiple investors. Candidates must be French, 25 or older, with four years in specified business, approved by agents and the seventy, and cleared by ministers. Cleveland Moffett in Century.
For a Harrisburg family the two year old daughter of Mr. L McPherson slept only a few hours at night. His wife gave half a Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablet which quieted her stomach and she slept through the night. Two boxes effected a permanent cure, and she is now well and strong. H R Palmer and Sons, W J Smith and Bro.
Advertisements claim Boschee's German Syrup cures colds throat and lung troubles and credits the product with saving consumptives in Georgia. It urges readers to buy from H. BR. Palmer & Sons at 75 cents.
Mrs George Bancroft describes a ceremonial entrance with heralds, nobles, and the queen receiving the speech, the crown and sword borne in procession, the queen reading with clear voice, then departing as mournful yet orderly crowds follow to their carriages.
The ad warns that Witch Hazel Salve from E. O. DeWitt & Co of Chicago is the original genuine product and cautions buyers about counterfeit, dangerous imitations. It asserts a cure for cuts, burns, bruises, eczema, tetter, and piles and urges buyers to ensure the box bears the DeWitt name.
A worn ledge across a rock formation yielded glittering colors in ore for a Severn area prospector. Despite long-known value, pack trails could not cross the block, so many searched around the ridge. The uncovering of true gold sparked a historic mine boom, as described in Leslie's Weekly.
In a Virginia town winter 1902 Mrs. John E. Harmon credits Chamberlain's Dough Remedy with curing her baby's dreadful cold and fears of pneumonia after a neighbor praised its effects. She thanks the manufacturers and urges others to try it. Sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro.
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