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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
15
The Athens Banner outlines mail and carrier delivery rates, payment methods, and subscriber rules. It then shifts to a series of editorial notes on national politics, including Roosevelt, Bryan, Kern, tariff issues, and discussions of Southern presidential nominating trends for 1912.
The commission appointed by President Roosevelt held a session in Athens and urged state action to improve farm life. They stressed education, agricultural education, better country schools, mail delivery, and good roads with government aid, while avoiding federal overreach. Georgia people are waking to improve conditions themselves.
A compressed list notes events from 1462 to 1907 including Pinzon sailing toward America, Plymouth settlement, Dahlgren birth, Mexico independence proclamation, Edwin Booth birth and death, California constitution adoption, Marlborough and Zimmerman marriage, and the German Emperor’s visit to London.
John Drew the actor born in Philadelphia on November 13 1853. He was the son of John Drew the Irish comedian and Mrs John Drew an actress and manager who died in 1897.
The article recalls a prominent actor who began at nineteen with Augustin Daly and later starred under Charles Frohman. Trained by Edwin Booth Adelaide Neilson and Fanny Davenport, he appeared in Rosemary Richard Carvel The Duke of Killbroankle and His House in Order in recent years.
A local pharmacy supplied ingredients for a simple vegetable prescription claimed to ease kidney and bladder complaints in older residents. The mix uses Plat Extract Dandelion and Compound Ky rgon with Syrup Sipps ril, prepared at home by shaking. Adults take one teaspoon after meals and at bedtime. a week’s supply is inexpensive and reported as effective.
Rev French Bo Oliver writes to William Jennings Bryan urging him to pursue evangelism rather than politics. He predicts Bryan could become an equal to the Apostle Paul and urges consecration of talents to God for the nation, claiming presidential defeats free him for sacred service.
Advertisement asserts Foley's Honey and Tar kills cough germs and heals the lungs to prevent pneumonia or consumption. It emphasizes the genuine product in a yellow package and notes it is sold by all druggists.
An advertised claim asserts PAZO Ointment cures itching bleeding and protruding piles in six to fourteen days or refunds money. The offer lists a 50 cent price and guarantees a full remedy within the stated period.
Denver officials cite new developments in the Mrs Allen F Read case claiming she pressured Mrs Genevieve Chandler Phipps for money by dynamite threats. State Treasurer Albert E Bent recalls a visit by a woman claiming to prepare an article on Colorado's Capitol linking Read to a broader extortion plan.
In case of a burn or scald relief should be sought quickly. Chamberlain's Salve applied on a soft cloth relieves pain almost instantly and, unless the injury is severe, helps the area heal without leaving a scar. Sold by H. R. Palmer & Sons Orr Drug Co Warren J Smith & Bro E. C. McEvoy L. P. Canning.
The Interstate Commerce Commission fixes November 12 as the effective date for a rule requiring railways to file through shipments tariffs to the United States. The measure stems from an ICC investigation into traffic agreements of the Harmon and Hill lines on the Pacific coast and Japanese steamship firms, which led to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company indictment for rebates on Japan shipments.
Hexamethylenetetramine is cited as a uric solvent and antiseptic in Foley’s Kidney Remedy and is sold by druggists. A California prison report notes Mark A. Wilkins to be executed at San Quentin on November 13 for the murder of Vernie Carmin in Elmhurst Oakland, with the body buried beneath a shed after a jealous crime.
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