City committee moves to establish Ath ens city hospital
A joint aldermanic committee from Ath ens including Aldermen Griffith Palmer Snelling City Attorney West and others met to discuss a proposed bill giving the mayor and council power to create a city hospital and issue bonds. The bill will be drafted advertised and introduced in the legislature as the first step toward building the hospital. Also a patient testimonial praises Electric Bitters for aiding vitality and digestion.
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Citizens of
Athens
Griffith, Palmer, Snelling
West
Messrs
A. J. Cobb
H. C. White
8. C. Benedict
Chamber of Commerce Thanks Committee for Sewer Agreement
The Athens Chamber of Commerce unanimously resolved to thank the mayor and council committee for securing an agreement with Commerce to divert that citys sewerage from the Oconee river watershed. The chamber calls the action of prime importance and urges Athens residents to recognize the committees successful efforts. Also includes a travel reminder for Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with local stores listed for purchase and a vacation pitch.
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Athens Chamber of Commerce
City of Commerce
Oconee
Chamber of Commerce
Athens
Sanitary reform bill could reshape Georgia food laws
Atlanta July 17 State Chemist Stallings and Pure Food Inspector Methvin drafted a bill to require absolute sanitary conditions in food manufacture and sale, bar infected workers, and bar use of screens. if enacted it empowers the agriculture commissioner to enforce broader safeguards for foods and feeds statewide. Georgia’s pure food law already ranks high for fat-stuff and cotton seed products. The bill would also affect pure drug inspection of oils to prevent adulteration.
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Atlanta
R. E. Stallings
P. A. Methvin
Peacoc
Pulaski County
Commissioner of Aget | Culture and Pure Food
Pure Food Law of
Georgia
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W. L. Gilpatrick
Danforth
W. J. Smith & Bro
H. R. Palmer & Sons
H. RB. Palmer & Sons
Orr Drug Co
Warren J. Smith & Bro
Riage
Ward
King
John Billings
Artemus Ward
Committee On the State of the Republic
Republican Party
C. T. Young
McLendon
Davison- Nicholson CO
Madras
Davison-Nicholson Company
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