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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1899
Page
4
The Athens paper covers national political mentions with Admiral Dewey and Admiral Sampson debates, Secretary Alger's fate, and Quay's Pennsylvania senate schemes. It notes New England journalists planning a Southern tour, and urges Athens council to issue street improvement bonds while stressing university endowment needs and campus expansion.
The text mixes a Macon News excerpt on funding education and a satirical list of articles about imperialism, followed by a Toledo business notice and a children’s poem from St. Nicholas. It includes Hall's Catarrh Cure ads and a moral tale about a town without boys. The fragment preserves names like Frank J. Cheney and W Gleason with dated attestations.
An advertisement-style testimonial from Mabry of Macon Georgia touts Swift's Specific as the only remedy to reach scrofula believed inherited. The letter describes severe infant sores, eye trouble, and dramatic improvement after twelve bottles, claiming skin clears entirely and health restored.
A Washington Star report recalls how a Kentucky journey risked policy terms. An agent jokes about declaring a man a liar to dodge higher rates for travel abroad. The manager warns the policyholder to stay in the U S. or face increased rates.
Readers share that Ely's Cream Balm cures catarrh and stubborn colds when other remedies fail. The ad notes a 10 cent trial and 50 cent sizes, with mail order and Walgreens style distribution through Ely Brothers at 56 Warren Street New York.
Mrs. Mary J. Bell aged sixty four a Phoenix City Alabama resident died suddenly in Trinity Methodist Church Phoenix City during a service. She collapsed as the hymn The Haven of Rest played and died within minutes. Several children survive the well known Christian woman.
Washington reports a river and harbor committee push for full government investigation of canal routes, proposing a seven member board to survey the Panama and Nicaragua options, assess costs, and report to congress. The plan includes land negotiations with nations and a $1 million appropriation, with findings due next session. Mrs J Silvers of Coogan GA endorses Dr Hadock's Liver Medicine.
The Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs offers a free scholarship to the Oread Institute of Domestic Science in Worcester Massachusetts for Georgia young women aged eighteen to thirty five with a good common school education. The course covers cookery chemistry of food marketing house economics sanitation physical culture elocution with lectures on physiology physics chemistry emergencies history of food feeding of infants and children. An industrious graduate may teach domestic science or demonstrate cookery in Georgia. Apply to Mrs J Lindsay Johnson president Rio Vista Rome Georgia.
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