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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1904
Page
3
A notice lists a stock intake deadline at 12 noon on Wednesday June 1 for Athens Manufacturing Company with bid rejection rights. Various local ads follow for groceries, appliances, photos, furniture, and an upcoming annual meeting of Southern Mutual Insurance policyholders in Athens.
Capt Capps of the Athens Guards reports securing uniforms tents and other gear to equip his company up to sixty men. The unit is to join a regimental force at Manassas with eight companies from the fifth and four from the third regiment under Capt Ent Anderson. Col Thomason is to be Brigadier General overseeing Georgia troops at the national encampment Rushville Indiana.
A large number of contestants sign up for the Ready Writer contest at the university open to all students. The English professor offers a prize for the best extempore essay on a subject chosen by the writer with no prep. Dr T G Merritt reports a life saving test and a cure using Electric Bitters.
Palmetto fruit tonic Drake's Palmetto Wine markets itself as a universal remedy from pure Palmetto juice. It claims immediate relief and permanent care for catarrh stomach troubles flatulency constipation congested kidneys and hemorrhoids. A large bottle costs seventy five cents at drug stores. a free trial bottle is offered by Drake Formula Company Chicano HL.
A fragmentary notice hints at a health related query about throat sensations and persistent coughing. The legibility is low and no clear events or named entities are present to anchor a fuller summary.
Workmen will soon erect two store buildings on Clayton street near Moss warehouse after tearing down the old Clayton house. Athens city needs more stores, but many new buildings are unlikely soon. Mr. Joseph Pominville of Stillwater spent over $2,000 for stomach trouble before using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. he reports improvement. Sold at 25 cents a box by HR Palmer & Sons and W. J. Smith & Bro.
Weekend excursion tickets offered by the Southern Railway valid Saturdays and Sundays from May 2 to September 11 1904 to Arden Asheville Brevard Flat Rock Hendersonville Hot Springs Lake Toxaway Saluda and Tallulah Falls with trips starting at North Carolina points noted The program marks a limited seasonal fare to regional destinations on Saturdays and Sundays.
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