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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1900
Page
4
The Athens Weekly Banner lists subscription rates for daily weekly and Sunday editions, including annual and semiannual prices, with cash in advance required. It directs readers to address business communications to the Business Manager and notes local notices charged per line.
A Sydney Nova Scotia cable notes bubonic plague traced to a flea bite on a wharf laborer. The column surveys broader topics from Atlantic Monthly serials by Miss Johnston and Craddock to U.S. building gains in 1899, and military logistics in the Spanish War era.
The passage discusses a European squadron reorganization with new ships likely joining the unit, and U S intelligence on its European naval representation. It mentions Senator McBride proposing pensions for veterans from early Indian wars and lists ten minor conflicts. It also covers Southern cotton mill investment and a British view of the South African conflict, plus The Ladies Home Journal manuscript process and costs.
An extended ad and miscellany extols the benefits of Swift’s Specific S S S a blood purifier, claiming elder health improvement, skin eruptions and scrofula cures, and testimonials from Mrs. Sarah Vike and Mr. JW Loving. Also mentions medical reports and a mix of political and literary notes.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a universal remedy. It claims the tonic purifies blood, improves digestion, and strengthens the whole body. Testimonial from F B Emerton of Auburn Maine credits relief from long dyspepsia and liver and kidney trouble.
Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, hailed as the Irish Joan of Arc, arrived in New York aboard the French liner La Normandie from Havre. She will speak at meetings to rally support for the Boers, saying she has traveled through France, Germany and Holland and heard surprise at their cause.
The Hodgson Cotton Company opened a new fertilizer factory near the Georgia railroad beyond the Seaboard depot. The plant, capacity 100 tons daily, employs fourteen workers, and will produce Gem of Athena Red Star Special Hodgson Potash Standard King's Cotton Grower Morning Glory Acid Phosphate Tap Root. 350 tons of potash salts imported from Germany support production and five thousand tons of fertilizer are expected this season. Meanwhile Persian authorities deal with a murder offense.
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