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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1903
Page
5
The Athens Banner announces subscription rates for daily weekly and Sunday editions and urges readers to attend the Northeast Georgia Fair opening with Governor and staff as visitors. It comments on postal scandals, railroad taxes, a bridge dispute involving the Humber sisters, and lynching debates across the North and South.
The Northeast Georgia Fair begins its week of pleasure in Athens with Governor Terrell and his military staff as guests of honor. The Banner praises the effort, invites large local turnout, and notes the fair aims to boost Athens and the region.
Several residents announce mayoral and aldermanic candidacies in Athens subject to Democratic primary action. W F Dorsey, J F Rhodes, O G Cooper, W G Weatherford, W Vonderau, F A Lipstomb, and H J Rowe are listed for various city wards with re election notes where applicable. The page also contains an unrelated rheumatism and catarrh medicine advertisement for Botanic Blood Balm.
The issue mixes cotton market quotes from Liverpool and New York with a health advertisement. It lists spot middling uplands prices, opening and closing ranges, and monthly futures notes, then promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $1000 guarantee and testimonials, mentioning F. J. Cheney & Co. and Toledo, Ohio.
Wingfield Cash Grocery argues the initial price of Clifton flour is higher but yields more bread per sack and uses less lard and soda, making it cheaper in the long run. Readers are urged to buy Clifton flour and test the claim themselves.
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