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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
4
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for eruptive skin diseases caused by impure blood. It claims a complete cure for a Cass City, Michigan, patient and warns against substitutes while praising accompanying Pellets.
The Five O clock Tea Club gathered with Misses Mary Harris and Annie Bromby on Thursday afternoon. Prizes in Five Ponds were won by Miss Isabel Thomas and Miss Grega. Lectures and visits followed by teas and a lawn party at the Normal School for the Y W C A benefit on May 24, 1893. Various residents including Mrs Parker, Miss Mayhew of Sewanee, Dr. Kirkland, and Mr Ontal Hutcheson appear in the town’s social updates with upcoming entertainments and health reports.
Advert reads a miracle cure for kidney and bladder ailments promising relief for a wide range of conditions. It claims a small bottle provides two months of treatment and offers mail order and testimonials from users, including a 64 year old mother cured after twenty five years of kidney trouble. Dr E W Hall of St Louis is named as manufacturer and a customer letter from O B Drewry is dated Greenfield Tennessee March 1901.
An advertisement from Richmond Virginia proclaims enormous demand for Good Luck Baking Powder, attributing it to intrinsic merit at a just price. It touts purity high leavening power and general excellence as unsurpassed.
The tenth district farmer's institute convenes today and tomorrow in Dublin with Hon Harvie Jordan presiding. Speeches by Dr H C White, Captain D G Parse, Captain Lumsden, B D Ross, and others will be followed by Mrs G W Matthews and D S Blackshear presentations on farm life and frugal farming. Farmers from surrounding counties are expected to attend.
The Kentuckian's boast highlights fast horses fine whiskey and beautiful women but every housekeeper in the city trusts Clifton flour made from native Kentucky wheat as another unmatched Kentucky product Wingfield Cash Grocery anchors the mention.
An advertisement lists arrivals at New Tings Daily Silk Malls including silks, brocades, ribbons, gloves, stockings, Voile and Etamine fabrics, Jap and silk fans, parasols, and umbrellas. It promotes a growing shoe line with Queen quality sandals and Oxfords, skirts at factory cost, and a 25 cent 150 White Pique Skirts offer. It also notes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets with Dr. recommendations and a Stillwater reference.
The Athens Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular monthly meeting on the second Monday of the month. Committees report on hotel-site negotiations and other matters. a hotel project update is expected. The meeting promises productive discussion and progress on key initiatives. The text urges readers to beware of health quackery and promotes August Flower for dyspepsia and liver complaints.
Manager Boyd of the Georgia base ball team negotiates with Vanderbilt for a game to be played here on the fifth of May next Tuesday. Indications are the Athenians and Coles will have another chance to see the great national game. A local woman discusses preventing dangerous consequences of whooping cough and praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe for children. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
Albert Cosby, a Black man, faced Judge Cobb and was fined fifty dollars plus costs. In default he will serve twelve months in the chain gang for a cocaine tied crime against Ilia Gresham, the same drug network involving Will Winfrey. Cosby claimed drug crazing but was sentenced to the gang to reform.
Short notes list O W Motes Studio on College avenue as Georgia’s leading photographic service with cloudy or fair weather sittings and reasonable prices. Includes Robinhood canned goods prices and M. M. Arnold contact number 183.
Various ads and notices including rental listings on College and South Lumpkin streets, dressmaking services by Miss Myra Cove, a bookkeeper and collector vacancy, an illustrated catalog for barber training, advertising for Baldwin apples, awning sales, a general health tonic promotion for Kodol Dyspepsia Care, and a local drug company promotion.
Mr. R. L. West, superintendent, says several thousand dollars were spent in sixty days upgrading the Athens exchange. He states the city now has the best telephone equipment of its size in the South and that toll line service is in first class condition.
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