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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
5
Remittance methods include express post office money orders or registered letters. Subscribers are reminded no carrier is authorized to collect subscriptions or disperse papers. Subscribers may pay regular collectors or visit the office. The text also discusses political and civic topics including law enforcement in Carmack and Reelfoot tragedies, road and bridge improvements, and Rail government ownership debates.
The piece notes Thanksgiving in Athens with residents grateful for the year's blessings. It observes the postal service's lack of profit, costing each citizen about twenty cents beyond post office receipts. It warns that Christmas is three weeks away and encourages early shopping to ease holiday rush and aid saleswomen.
The GOP may run candidates in Georgia's Seventh and Ninth districts after observing the late presidential results. The move would reveal the party's lack of a true majority in those two districts and test future electoral strength.
The Savannah Press notes the absence of Hon. Robert F. Maddox from Savannah automobile races this week. It says he has something in Atlanta that is more interesting and possibly more strenuous than watching the races, if press accounts are accurate.
The South holds bright literary minds poised for a renaissance as favorable incentives rise. Thomas Nelson Page is highlighted for lifting the region's literary scope from narrow forms to broader, more artistic novels. The piece notes growing South wide influence, increasing book production, and evolving tastes alongside a shift in prominence of longer works over short stories. It also mentions Dick Croker and Tammany Hall in New York politics as related political context.
James H. Cummiskey, commissioner of public works and long time PEI political figure, born November 27, 1849 at Fort Augustus. Educated locally, he taught, entered commerce in 1872, joined legislature in 1891, served as Speaker from 1897 to 1904, later as commissioner of public works and acting premier on multiple occasions. Also a Bucklen’s Arnica Salve user testimonial from Maine resident.
A citizen in Athens Georgia denounces spectacle peddlers who evade taxes and undermine local eye dealers. He urges enforcement of state laws and creation of a fair city ordinance, noting inferior products and higher prices from out of state peddlers.
Reports show Teamsters forming in Emporia Kansas and Dye workers organizing in Minneapolis. Union consolidations occur in Albany and Orange County while the Sta ten’s Union plans its New Orleans convention. Baltic wage rates, industry reorganizations, and new death benefits accompany notes on paper mills in India and Jamaica’s strikes amid lower living costs.
The latest counts reveal 1,716 unemployed women amid a total of 1,938 individuals with fixed incomes. The low female unemployment results from strong demand for domestic servants, with pensioners excluded from the figures.
The advertisement touts Parisian Sage as a premier hair restorer that cures dandruff and promotes lustrous hair in days. It cites customer testimonials, notes a two week dandruff cure, and offers a money back guarantee via H. R. Palmer and Sons Athens. The price is 50 cents a bottle with prepaid charges.
Jules Murry presents Marrying Mary at the Colonial showing December Ord. Florence Gear stars as Mary Montgomery. Edwin Milton Boyle wrote the book and Silvio Hein composed the music.
The advertisement promotes Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a reliable treatment for colds and influenza symptoms. It claims world wide reputation and notes it relieves lung secretions without opium enabling safe use for infants and adults. It lists several local sellers including H R Palmer & Sons Orr Drug Warren J Smith E C McEvoy and L P Canning.
A notice for Chamberlain's ointment promises rapid relief from sprains swellings and lameness. The advertisement claims inflammation and soreness are reduced cutting healing time by about one third and lists 25 and 50 cent sizes sold by local druggists.
Frank J. Cheney a senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized December 6, 1886 in Toledo Ohio. Firm sells the remedy for 75 cents with testimonials and a family pill for constipation.
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