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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1903
Page
8
Ramon’s Liver Pills and Tonio Pelless Gre are described as remedies adaptable to all conditions of man. The text emphasizes their universal applicability and tonic claims without specific medical evidence or context.
The cruiser Chattanooga and torpedo boats Nicholson and O'Brien, under construction at Crescent Ship yards, were towed by government tugs to the Brooklyn navy yard to finish work. No resistance by Sheriff of Union County or deputies occurred. The vessels were replaced from sheriff control after a libel suit for 10,000 by Babcor & Wilcox, who supplied the boilers.
Three masked men robbed the central telephone office clerk Hood, tied him, and carried him to the bank where five blows failed to blow the vault. Hood survived with the operator left in the iron vault, pursued by bloodhounds as officers search. In Brazil, Acre talks between Brazil and Bolivia failed to settle borders, with $5 million offered and Acre products to be shipped to Brazilian ports under a renewed modus vivendi.
The United States cruiser Denver sails from Boston for its official trial over the Cape Ann Bonsland course, aiming for 16 knots. The same board that oversaw Missouri’s prior trial leads the test. In Chicago, prominent attorney Erakine McMillan, West Side Republican leader, dies at age 70.
At Fort Riley Kansas on October 23 a mock attack drills the post with a deployment plan led by Col Wagner and Brig Gen Grant while Lt Gen Young observes. Tensions rise as Texas troopers clash with Negro and other regiments forcing patrols and guarded commissary visits.
New York headlines report Vincent Cody, once a wealthy man and lifelong foe of William M. Tweed, has died as a watchman on the rapid transit subway. Cody spent 38 years in state prison, saying his conviction followed Tweed’s influence and a packed jury. Roosevelt commuted his sentence, but Cody left prison reluctantly. An obsolete ad for Ramon’s Liver Pills and Tonio Pellets appears amid a discussion of public safety and race.
Fragmentary text appears to reference a county clerk and monthly notices dated October 12 1903 with unclear context and disrupted phrases. No clear event, names, or actions are determinable from readable material.
The document records a county meeting where the exit year tax rate was fixed at 1 mill per thousand and notes unanimous orders on state and county levies. It mentions commissioners Mitchell and Clarke as clerks certifying the adopted levies and a formal certification of extracts from official chits.
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