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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1899
Page
4
The issue notes a Arkansas baby joke ending with a quarter moon, Funston marriage romance from Rome Tribune, and a surge in Athens cotton mills urged to double population. It cites the English Assuan dam plan and London religious trends via the London Critic.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co proprietors. Endorsements from West & Truax Toledo O Walding Kinnan Marvin Toledo O state Cheney is honorable and financially able. Cure taken internally. 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's family pills advertised as best.
A Washington letter prints a testimonial from J. D. Botkin praising Peruna and Man a lin for stomach catarrh relief. The column also covers conventions, Confederate monument plans, a new pressures apparatus, and debates on colored census supervisors, predicting possible racial friction and political risk depending on administration choices.
The article reports on liquid air being produced in New York by Mr Tripler, a laboratory triumph with hopes for commercial viability. A New York plant planned to open by month’s end aims to sell liquid air as a consumer ready product competing with ice, led by a young inventor named Ostrager.
Perfect health claimed through Tutt's Liver Pills. Advert notes pills regulate bowels and promote vigor. Prominent claims include relief from sick headache malaria biliousness constipation and related ailments.
Dr J P Campbell biology professor of the University explains how to destroy the Colorado potato beetle attacking the Irish potato crop. He recommends Paris Green mixed with water at one ounce to twelve and a half gallons plus lime, applied with a watering pot and kept stirred, noting poisoning by hand or boiling water as alternatives and that ordinary care avoids danger.
Atlanta May 16 strong probability Georgia legislature will consider a uniform classification plan for cotton at sworn inspectors statewide to standardize quality from ship points. Current system lacks uniform classification allowing consumer-driven grades to burden producers and trigger reclama tions costing thousands. one firm reportedly lost 55000. The move seeks to curb arbitrary practices and requires broad regional buy in. Mr Geo S Anderson of Rossville Penn praises Chamberlains Pain Balm for rheumatism and urges households to keep a bottle for various injuries. H R Palmer & Sons sells it.
George Earle, a Black man, was found with a severe head wound at his home, struck by a piece of iron after a Saturday night incident near the ice works. Bud Block is arrested and in jail, denying guilt amid gambling suspicions among Black residents. A separate testimonial advertises Camberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy by H. R. Palmer & Sons.
Fifteen guests at a Hot Springs hotel were poisoned after dining on canned lobster. Three physicians worked to save them. Victims include Mr Nonweiler of Evansville Indiana and his wife,Vincent Lavecohai of Vicksburg Mississippi,J M McIntyre and wife,J H Mart egh of New Orleans,L F Dreyfus and wife of Cleveland Mississippi, and Mrs Hurley of Hot Springs. All are believed out of danger.
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