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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1914
Page
8
Short notes list various ads and notices from Athens including a savings bank offering 4 percent interest compounded annually, multiple rental listings on Bloomfield Hall and Milledge avenues, job seekers like an experienced nurse and stenographer seeking positions, pig sale at State College of Agriculture, furnished rooms near Agricultural College, and an Oak plank sale by Klein & Martin Co.
Mrs Josi Ham of Shamrock Missouri credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier with curing her long list of ailments including female weakness pains hot flashes nervous spells and sleeplessness. She says she can work all day sleep well and enjoy her family again. If readers seek advice they may write Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
Local notices advertise fire insurance sharing with J. C. Jester and savings deposits at Clarke County Bank at 4 percent. Real estate loans offered, rents for rooms on Milledge Avenue, and a Grady Avenue cottage for rent. Miscellaneous items include cautions, grocery promos, and medicinal ads from Citrolax and Chamberlain Liniment.
C Shackelford writes as Taxpayer detailing ad valorem tax receipts for 1914. He argues the city will face an $86,925.72 overdraft by Sept 1 and that future revenue from fines and water works is insufficient to cover expenses. He challenges Dorsey’s figures and defends his own conservative estimates.
An Athens dealer advertises open stock and built sets of fine china dinnerware, crystal glass, enamelled and aluminum cookware that resists chipping, plus woodenware and silver plated ware including cut glass. It positions itself as the only local purveyor of genuine items.
A brief advertisement urges customers to call in orders or visit in store with a claim of prompt delivery. It emphasizes quick service and easy access for customers seeking fast fulfillment.
Local Athens testimony urges readers to use Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble. Mrs. S. T. Davis of Cobb Street recounts improvement after three years and two boxes, stating other family members were cured. Price 50 cents at dealers. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY endorses the remedy.
Mary Pickford appears in an ad promoting Po-do-Lax as a pleasant laxative that banishes pimples and indigestion. It claims to tone the liver and purify blood, promising clear complexion, steady nerves, and overall health with a 50 cent bottle and money-back satisfaction.
An advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a soothing remedy for coughs hoarseness and throat tickling with no opiates. It notes a Texas man walked 15 miles to obtain a bottle and claims the product remains affordable and unchanged in wartime while appealing to families for croup bronchitis and colds.
Sealskin gloves enter the Canadian market with production shifted to Canada. The new labeling highlights domestic manufacturing and aims to boost local supply.
Warren Smith Drug Co advertises Dr Rudolph Schiffmanns Asthmodor and Asthmador Cigarettes with a money back guarantee if instant relief is not achieved. The ad claims relief within ten seconds to fifteen minutes for severe asthma and hay fever symptoms with nationwide supply through local druggists or direct from Dr R Schiffmann in St Paul Minn.
An old advertisement touts De Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil as curing sores and relieving pain. It claims immediate healing action and lists price points of 25c 50c and 1.00, noting students have returned to town.
The note touts Cardui as a medicine for all womanly troubles and claims it has relieved women for over 50 years. It urges readers to get a bottle today and credits “Pike Fahad” as a distributor. The message asserts smothering dangers and medical relief through the product.
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