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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
2
The Athens Daily Banner lists delivery by carriers or mail with rates for different periods. Prices include 5 per year, 2.50 for six months, and 1.25 for three months, with weekly or Sunday editions at 1.00 per year. Remittances may be sent by various methods.
The text urges readers to mail notices to The Banner editors with real names, noting no phone submissions and strict publication rules. It references the Northeast Georgia Fair, summer plans, and various regional quotes, reflecting a community newspaper’s push for reader input and local events.
Judge Russell approved the charter for the Athens fair association. Billops Phinizy as president and O B Griffith as vice president lead a strong slate of directors and officers. A committee will draft bylaws, with an early stockholders meeting to report. The plan includes a premier race track, premium lists, and a October event expected to boost farmers, merchants, and visitors.
Readers are reminded that various ailments such as appetite loss fatigue indigestion and dizziness are attributed to imbalances of the body's humors and system disorders with many related troubles described.
Fragments describe someone named Thad and Dick Hood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. text notes inability to work and a promise to hire one boy. The garbled report cites Mrs FTwa and a place likely in Maine. The overall sense is a local notice about employment and health claims.
Handbills describe the excur sion via Seaboard Air Line for Thursday June 4. Separate white and colored coaches promised with ample room. Train leaves Athens at 730 a.m. Round trip from Athens priced at 125. Managers M B Morton and O H Williams of Athens.
The Grand Encampment of Georgia adjourned in Atlanta with Shafysmor as grand patriarch and R S Crenshaw as senior grand warden. New appointees include O W Parr as grand marshal and L S Hill as brand inside sentinel. An advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion and stomach catarrh.
Dr J O Bloomfield, longtime Augusta resident, will move to Athens next month with his wife seeking better health. He has had a successful Augusta practice and will enter general medical practice in Athens upon arrival.
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