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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1899
Page
7
The graphophone is introduced as a universal home entertainment device offering inexpensive, charming evenings. It is hailed as the century’s premier pastime, bringing a wide array of listening pleasures to households nationwide.
The Banner offers a latest make graphophone with a dozen records as a premium to new subscribers. Ten daily subscribers at 5 per year or thirty weekly subscribers are eligible, renewals allowed, with credit kept until the target is met and the device displayed at Conaway's Music Store in Athens Georgia.
The Sarepto Baptist Association marks its 100th anniversary with a three day centennial meeting in Maysville Georgia beginning Tuesday at 10 a.m. The program includes a centennial sermon by J H Kilpatrick and W W Landram, historical sketches, discussions on the dispensary question and the association's relation to Athens first Baptist church, and sessions on missions Sunday schools temperance ministerial education Mercer University and the future of the association with noted speakers.
An OCR fragment promotes Mozley s Lemon Elixir claiming to regulate liver stomach bowels and kidneys for ailments from constipation to malaria digestion and nervous headaches. It includes testimonials from Rev O O Davis and H A Bell and ends with unrelated dialogue about drowning and keeping afloat.
A prominent Virginia editor recounts a near despairing battle with chronic diarrhea. He credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy with restoring his health after trying costly alternatives and losing hope. The testimonial emphasizes swift relief and renewed well being.
A condensed telegraph bulletin reports on George Sloan returning to Wilmington North Carolina after an extended absence from a bank. Dreyfus case reactions appear in Paris Rennes Washington. Reports cover mass protests in Washington Paris and Chicago against the Rennes court martial verdict. Local U.S. notes include the Columbus Cotton Mill project and Arctic voyage news. Also mentions Red Men council meeting and public health remedies.
A committee of university trustees met yesterday morning to discuss several issues facing the university. Present were Messrs. Meldrim, Hatching, Cobb and Hull. The remarks touch on governance and future plans.
Notices detail multiple sheriff sales of land and a house in Athens Clarke County Georgia including parcels of one acre and smaller lots fronting Clayton and Washington streets. Sales list properties subject to fi fa against W S Holman and others with tenant in possession notices and dates in September 1899.
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