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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1903
Page
5
A fragmentary item notes a race meet featuring horses and poultry shows, with references to wild west themes and an event named Georgia Derby. It mentions daily races and a figure called Meet Me on the Pike in a carnival like program.
A guest congratulates for the engagement of a son and compliments the fiancée’s appearance. The speaker remarks on the bride’s prominent connections and claims her family traces to relatives of the Spanish Armada.
A Charles Protheroe excerpt discusses why sailors rarely die from falls aloft, noting the low fatality rate of about one in hundreds and sharing anecdotes about seafaring discipline. The piece contrasts this with broader reflections on teaching by parents and social vignettes from life and travel.
A column-era mix includes Phil May's Bulletin sketches of a jailed man and a judge, a Sydney connection, and a joke about marriage. It weaves British Museum lottery history, a Chinese alum mountain, humble pie origins, a death feigning plant, Henley on Stevenson, a Broadway gossip exchange, and light humor about lovers and fame.
A damaged report recounts John Gilleshind’s two barrel cannon with chained iron balls designed to mow down Union troops. The weapon hurled a ball that tore through pine and debris, injuring the inventor’s arm and destroying surroundings before being recovered and mounted near a Confederate monument after city funding.
Otto Dodd of Ponder, Missouri, says a year long sore healed after using Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. He calls it the best salve on earth and notes it costs 25 cents at W J Smith & Bro or H B Palmer & Son drag stores.
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