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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1906
Page
3
A long list of discounted goods from lace edges to 36 inch black taffeta and Rajah silks to assorted wool dress goods. Special lots include white quilts linens towels window shades and a large trink kept stock with trunks shoes and ready to wear skirts. Multiple named items and fabrics with percent savings highlighted across fashion and household lines.
Philadelphia report details Robert Bell a Palmer & Sons porter who looted safes over months, drawing cash for lavish living. The piece lists mining stock gifts to Pennsylvania Railroad officials, naming many executives and the quantities received, with totals and gifts noted.
Mrs Luccia Wilke of Caroline Wisconsin found Bucklen Arnica Salve more effective than a 26e Box of the so called Mountain of Gold. The salve cured a chronic rutnite sore on her leg after 23 years of torture. The product is promoted as an antiseptic healer for piles wounds and sores offered at local druggists W J Smith and Bro H R Palmer and Sons.
Dr J Newton Hathaway of Atlanta Ga famed as leading specialist offers multiple free books on urinary tract disease manliness vigor health venereal disease throat and lung diseases women’s ailments nervous exhaustion and more all readable for sufferers at no charge readers may request titles by writing to Dr Hathaway Co 60 Inman Bldg Atlanta Ga with guaranteed confidential advice and no cost.
In a May 24 1906 letter to Governor Terrell, J G Rawlings asks to fix dates for the hanging of Alf Moore and the Carter children murder case. He insists his sons Milton and Jesse are innocent and contends Moore will confess on the gallows, hoping the state’s execution plan can be halted or adjusted.
The city police department reports a prosperous week with over three hundred dollars in fines, modestly exceeding expenses. Under Mayor Dorsey’s administration and police vigilance, fines nearly cover all departmental costs.
A medical claim offers 100 dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. The notice also contains a political appeal from Georgia, urging loyalty to the Democratic Party and welcoming returning populists, signed by J. G. Rawlings, with endorsement rhetoric and requests for response.
Eighteen stockholders of the Athens Domestic Laundry gathered for a meeting. Fourteen of the eighteen attendees expressed support for Col. James M. Smith in the discussed gubernatorial race. The event featured general conversations prior to the meeting.
Mr G H Boifeullet formerly with Pittsburg Plate Glass Co opens Builders' Supply Co in Athens. The new store displays mantels tiling and grates with John Lucas & Co paints Sargent & Co hardware and Japalac. Boifeullet touts Lucas tinting gloss as pure ready mixed since 1849 and aims for lasting finish over adulterated rivals.
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