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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1903
Page
2
Published daily and weekly by HH J Rowe and P Molder Jr the Athens Daily Banner outlines mail and carrier delivery options with yearly and seasonal rates. The notice emphasizes cash in advance and instructs subscribers to report late or missing deliveries to the business office.
The piece urges readers to mail notices with real names for publication and notes no phone submissions. It critiques Roosevelt and Cleveland era currency policy, cites a Dawes commission row, and mocks politicians while recounting Fox River state wool output, government payrolls, and deer propagation in a New York park.
Clarke County residents face a critical vote on Sept 3 to issue bonds for sixty miles of macadamized roads with no tax increase. The editorial urges full turnout to achieve the two thirds required and avoid a retrograde step despite some opposition and apathy.
A wartime exhortation extols soldiers who avoid alcohol as superior performers. It argues abstainers march better, endure mentally and physically stronger, and that strong drink weakens resolve and thirst. It ranks brandy and beer as harmful, while praising water, coffee, tea as preferable.
Southern Railway offers special weekend sale on Saturdays through September 12 with reduced round trip fares to Atlanta Tallulah Falls Asheville Hendersonville and others. Inquiries to R W Sizer S H Hardwick W H Tayloe. Also a health ad for De Kings New Life Pills promoting gentle quick relief for digestion headaches and liver trouble at 25 cents.
Southern Railway announces weekend tickets from Athena to White Sulphur Springs Ga for 1.85 round trip valid from Saturday July 25 through September 12. Tickets after noon and evening trains Saturday good for return on the Tuesday after sale date. For details contact R W Sizer G A 106 Clayton Street.
Postal notice lists remaining letters for the week ending September 1 1903 at the Athens post office. Female names include Miss Leola Adkins Mrs Eugenia Bennett Miss Nettie Buchanan and others. male recipients include Rev S M Bratten Alfred Black J L Childers J M Cammons and more. Packages addressed to R Landrum and Miss Minnie Jackson are noted.
Advertisement claims Stuart's Gin and Buchu cure Bright's disease and diabetes, with details on gravel symptoms and mucous discharges. It cites 896 private and hospital cures, offers a free sample bottle and $1 price, and states a large free-distribution drive from Stuart Drug Co. Atlanta, Ga.
Fresh Flour All the Time. Clifton Flour is sold only to retail merchants in small quantities to stay fresh. Bransford's Clifton is for family use and guarantees bread cake and pastry made with it. Wingfield Cash Grocery keeps it in stock regularly.
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