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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
4
A reporter and friend explore a device called the Televue in a storeroom near a post office. Two isolated booths transmit live faces through a center hole using a lens and lights, revealing features via a talking link. They doubt optical tricks and note the inventor plans a patent in Washington.
An article notes a inventor’s claim that transmitting form and color via electric current could extend far beyond the telephone. It imagines trains seen arriving, criminals identified, and patients seen by physician with new tele view technology, comparing to Bell’s early wired experiments.
Morton L. Hill of Lebanon Indiana reports his wife suffered inflammatory rheumatism in all muscles and joints, swollen and bedridden for six weeks with eight doctors. After using the Mystic Cure for Rheumatism she walked in three days and he says it saved her life. Sold by H R Palmer & Sons at 105 Clayton Street.
F G Afilalo, a London writer, compares spiders and scorpions noting shared traits such as eight legs and blood-sucking habits. He recounts spider agility, Australian parachuting spiders, and denigrates scorpions while warning of bites varying by creature and victim condition.
In LaGrange Georgia on May 9 revivalists Dr Len G Broughton of Atlanta and Major Cole of Michigan led a massive meeting drawing 2000 to 3000 people who sought conversion and reconsecration amid a rare, quieting storm of emotion. In Columbus police hunt two stylishly dressed women who used flirtation to swap inexpensive rings for expensive ones in two jewelers stores, seeking to flee to Alabama.
The American Cereal Co offers free samples of Zest cereal at G. H. Williamson's in Athens starting Thursday May 11 for one week. Ladies shopping downtown are especially invited to try this delicious healthful cereal. Zest is the best.
Dr H B Hettinger of Indianapolis endorses Detchon's Mystic Cure for Rheumatism noting four days to walk without a cane and two bottles cured him. Sold by H R Palmer & Sons at 105 Clayton Street. Also mentions Thos B Reed's barber shop The Ponce de Leon opening and a graphic scene of Moorish masons removing a building with scorpions among the debris.
Testimonials praise Ely's Cream Balm as medicine for catarrh with claims it relieves symptoms without irritation. Advert confirms price 50 cents and notes mailing from Ely Brothers at 56 Warren Street New York.
In Hawkinsville Georgia Green Love a Black workman died after slipping from the edge of an open grave as workers prepared it for Miss Hutchins who had died days earlier. He reeled back gasping and died likely from heart palpitations rather to the fall itself.
Lemon City resident C B Wainwright writes manufacturers that taking Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in hot water yields faster relief for stomach pains colic and cholera morbus. He claims the effect is doubled and rapid. Sold by H R Palmer & Sons and W J Smith & Bro. Also a caution about noticing a wife’s new dress.
All are invited to enjoy and improve the Horace K Turner Art Exhibit at Windsor Hotel. Open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Admission ten cents.
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