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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1908
Page
7
A notice highlights a new peroxide cream described as cooling soothing healing cleansing and beautifying for the skin with enthusiastic reports from users. No specific names places or dates are given. The item reads like a product promotion in a periodical.
A fragmented ad shows a builders’ supply firm listing names of customers or affiliates such as John Bostwick Mrs E M Bishop G rightwell and Son A L Comer and others. The ad emphasizes headquarters for mantels tile and grates and notes satisfied customers.
An old style advertisement urges youths to switch from cigarettes to cigars, claiming cigars elevate standing in business and social life and noting Athens Cigar Store offers cigars pipes tobacco magazines and daily papers.
The Ladies Garden and Improvement Club lists awards across Chrysanthemums Dahlias and Vegetables. Prizes include cash from Elmer J.D. Smith and W. W. Rawson, with多 numerous recognitions for best blooms, displays, and collections by members such as Miss Farrabee Mrs Griggs Mrs Webb and Mrs Lumpkin among others.
Fragmentary notes describe a fatal sawmill accident at Brooks where a man was killed and his body severed by a saw. The garbled text also mentions Brooks, Cameron, Towser, Lane, and Burpee seed items, with references to local vendors and seeds. Notable names and precise details are obscured by OCR damage.
A testimonial notes fifteen years of use with Bucklen's Artica Salve proving effective on sores boils ulcers and similar ailments. The vendor names include J R Hardy of Mast Wilton Meine Wed Smith Bro WR Palmer & Sons drug stores.
An old remedy advertisement touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective for colds and coughs. It lists multiple local druggists and firms such as H. Opper Sons, Orr Drug Co, J Smith & Bro, C. McEv, L. P. Canning as places where the product is sold.
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