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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1903
Page
2
The Daily Banner lists subscription options with annual, quarterly, and monthly plans. It notes cash in advance, accepted payment methods, and urges prompt notification of delivery issues to improve service regularity.
The Banner invites readers to submit notices with real names for publication and hints at upcoming events. The column also notes ongoing fair chatter, political opinions about Roosevelt and the 1904 political climate, a push for a new Athens hotel, and comments on cotton prices and convict labor funding.
Northeast Georgia fair events praised for boosting local farming. Committee led by Clarence T. Hussey organized annual Wheat and Oat Fair, expanding acreage and production in the region. The effort drew praise for stimulating mills and home consumption, with plans to hold the fair again next year and urging local support.
The ad describes difficult digestion and dyspepsia causing irritability, bad mouth taste, fullness, headache and heartburn. It touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a remedy that promises permanent cures, suggesting readers will be able to eat without distress.
A set of notices proclaims candidates for mayor and alderman in Athena including J J Rhodes O W Cooper W C Weatherford W von derau F A Lipscomb and H J Rowe with wards one two three and four subject to Democratic primary action. An attributed quote about optimists closes the piece.
The article discusses early references to smallpox in Arab medical writing. It notes Rhazes and early physicians described the disease, its distinctions, and even cited legends linking its appearance to events in Mecca and the Abyssinian siege, with mention of physiognomy and therapeutic ideas.
Advertisement claims Botanic Blood Balm cures rheumatism and catarrh by cleansing blood. It asserts hundreds cured after other medicines failed and offers a free sample with prepaid medical advice. Product priced at $1 per large bottle, from Blood Balm Co. Atlanta, Ga.
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