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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1913
Page
7
The Athens electric company has secured a pulmotor to provide automatic artificial respiration for electro shock, drowning, asphyxia, and other life threatening cases. It will be shown in the Electric Shop window Saturday with a public demonstration to follow.
An advertisement touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a remedy for liver and bowel troubles including constipation. It claims quick relief from toxins, improved digestion, and better energy, urging readers to skip purgatives and try the product, with a free sample offer from Hot Springs Chemical Co.
In Madrid on May 21 the International Cattle and Agricultural Machinery Fair opened with an address by King Alfonso. The display features American livestock and many U.S. manufacturers of agricultural implements and machinery are represented at the event.
A Marion Ohio druggist endorses Dr King's New Discovery as the best throat and lung medicine. He recalls curing his wife of a severe bronchial cold after other remedies failed and urges keeping a bottle for family use. Price 50c and 100. Guaranteed by local druggists W. J. Smith & Bro. and H. R. Palmer and Sons.
Athens readers review the Davison College commencement week program in North Carolina. Events span May 25 to May 28 with baccalaureate and annual sermons, class day exercises, alumni meetings, prize presentations, senior orations, simulated contests, and a presidential inauguration and reception lineup. Notable participants include Rev J S Lyons Rev D H Ralston William Ellis Neal Anderson O L Clark H N Pharr S R McKee and W S Golden. The program features trustee meetings, college orchestra performances, and gymnastic showcases.
An Athens Georgia druggists ad promotes Vinol a tonic claimed to build up appetite digestion and blood health. It cites P O Barker of Bowens Mill and H R Palmer & Sons and promises a money back guarantee if unsatisfied. Also notes prompt ice wagon service and Atlantic Ice & Coal Co successors to Athens Ice & Coal Co.
Georgia archives are combed for original lands at Tallulah Falls used in the State of Georgia v Georgia Railway and Power Company. The trial opens next Monday in Clayton Rabun county. The land under dispute is central to a $274000 electrical project serving North Georgia. The case, after long preparation, reflects a statewide effort led by the attorney general under legislative mandate.
In Durham New Hampshire Dr Edward T Fairchild former Kansas state superintendent received the keys and charter of New Hampshire State College and became its president. Inaugural exercises were held in the college armory with speakers from Ohio State University Dartmouth College and Kansas State Agricultural College among others.
In Detroit on May 21, over three thousand clergymen and lay members of the Baptists arrived for the opening session. The meeting fills railway stations boarding houses and street cars as delegates gather for the event in Detroit, Michigan.
The Baptist convention will be held at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church with sessions across a full week. Foreign Mission Society topics include a 10 cent weekly per member campaign, Bible work, social science, portage, chapel cars and Sunday school lessons. Noted speakers and society meetings will close with a Sunday sermon by Rev. Lathan A. Crandall of Minneapolis.
John Supsic of Sanbury Pennsylvania credits Kings New Life Pills with quick constipation relief and general digestive and liver health. The ad promotes the pills at two pence and lists W J Smith and Bro and H R Palmer and Sons as recommending distributors.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe substitute for calomel, claiming it is a mild vegetable liquid that treats constipation, biliousness, and sluggish liver. Drugists guarantee refunds on unsatisfactory bottles, ensuring customers receive the guaranteed product.
Washington D C May 21 Before thousands of representatives from all parts of the earth assembled at the 83rd session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists here in a 24 day session the Southeastern Union Conference delivered its reports today through its president Elder C B Stephenson of Atlanta The report covers four years since the last session noting growth in membership to 2556 with 45 ministers 32 licensed missionaries and 66 evangelistic colporteurs totaling 143 workers in the territory Tithe and missionary funds totaled 82480 05 The Training School at Graysville and church schools report progress three sanitariums operate in Atlanta Graysville and Orlando Colporteur sales totaled 162720 73 for the quadrennial period The closing notes the union serving over eight million people and the need for God loving Spirit filled workers The field is white to harvest but laborers are few
The Prison Association of Georgia seeks legislative action this year to reform prison conditions. It does not target individuals but calls for centralization of the convict system and humane, economical road labor reforms. The group plans to present concrete remedies and welcomes input from lawmakers and officials.
New York advocates urge Congress to remove the asphalt tariff to lower highway construction costs. They argue current duties of $3 a ton on refined asphalt and $1.50 on crude raise road bills and that higher prices invite price increases from domestic producers. They say savings would benefit public works, not asphalt firms, since cheaper bitumen would boost road-building or save taxpayer money.
Knox Institute hosts annual commencement for industrial and literary training of colored youth. Public program runs May 23 to May 29 with declamation contest, sermons, vesper, visitors day, oral exams, industrial exhibit, alumni reception, two Morton Theater concerts, and a final address by Prof. C Snelling of the University of Georgia.
The ad touts Parisian Sage as a guaranteed dandruff cure and hair regenerator sold by H R Palmer & Sons for 50 cents a large bottle. It claims two coke or money back, promising turn from harsh hair to luxuriant, radiant results. Advertising blurb targets both men and women nationwide, noting druggists carry the product.
Miss Clara Oster of House Springs Missouri says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is the best for a quick cure of a cough or bad cold. Available from all dealers.
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