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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1903
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text references persons and places with scattered terms like South, Vora amda, Wetter hae, and payments. No coherent event or clear facts emerge. content appears garbled and requires clarification.
An advertisement extols Mali's Great Discovery Hall's Great Discovery Texas Wonder as a cure for kidney and bladder issues, diabetes, and related ailments. It offers home mail order, testimonials, and mentions counterclaims about mercury in substitutes. Also includes travel notice for a Templar event with transport details.
Wingfield Cash Grocery touts a Kentucky wheat flour praised for rebuilding tissues and renewing red blood cells after illness. The ad emphasizes its quick digestion and nutritious content as a health aid from LaGrippe recovery.
A long fragment describes Mexican churches as marvelous stone arches and domes built with earth and mortar. It recounts an assayer’s tale of how earth was piled to shape domes, then compacted to harden, with later references to doctors and poets and a promotion of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption.
Web letters remaining for the week ending May 12 1903 list male and female addressees in Athens including J L Ball L R Brooks George Bunn D B Gusby A T Fowler A C Heg rie R M Sackson James McLendon Henry M Malone H C Meacham Rus Moore W Batch Morton T O Hara Clarke Partee Judge Robinson Jim Rouse E D Seymeour O M A Sorenson Linton Smith A A Smith and Mrs Hattie Hanter Margaret Jackson Lona McArthur Kate Myers Moselle Neely M S Norton Jessie Roberts Laura Stilwell Ada Sims Annie Smith Abbie Thomas Martha Williams plus The F L Preston Co 33 First St and Mrs Addie Griffeth.
Short notes list services from Dr Galloway for prescriptions at Night Cell No 342, and O W Motes Studio on College Avenue offering photographic work in Georgia with reasonable prices. Also mention M M Arnold produce and Cinco cigarettes at Williamson's.
Community notices advertise bank deposits and savings, fruit and produce at Williamson and Arnold stores, Tryphosa Desert hint, and eggs and slips for sale. A medical note claims J A Gulledge of Verbena Alabama suffered chronic piles and was treated with Backlen's Arnica Salve, with claimed rapid relief and 250 price tag.
Seaboard Air Line Railway will sell roundtrip tickets to Atlanta and return every Sunday from May 17 through October 15, 1908 for 100 dollars. Tickets valid on train 41 departing Athens at 5 35 pm city time. Return date of sale is provided by J Z Hoke Athens Ga agent with W E Christian A G P A O B Ryan G P A Portsmouth.
Bulls dominate the cotton market in New York with May cotton reaching a high of 11 20, keeping gains for several days. The session shows persistent buying and strength in the ongoing price movement.
Mrs. James Lane at her home six miles from Monticello Georgia shoots and kills a man named Stewart who had attacked her and beat her husband. He seized the pistol and wounded her in the hand before collapsing. The report mixes an unrelated medical ad about X rays and indigestion.
An odd political missive notes the Sultan of Turkey will not punish Bulgaria, while an advertisement touts DeWitt's Little em Riser pills for bowel relief and liver support. The Our Drug Co. markets the remedy as restoring tone and preventing recurrence with continued use.
An old newspaper item notes the U S monitor Arkansas stuck in mud at St Genvieve hindering river passage until field conditions improve. It also advertises various medicines including Detchou’s Anti Diuretic, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, and a cholera and diarrhea remedy with testimonials from Druggists and customers.
The World’s Greatest Skin Soap Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment offer cleansing soothing healing for skin scalp hair and hands. Marketed worldwide as the premier toilet and baby soap with claims of superior emollients and aromas.
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