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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1905
Page
7
Mrs I B Jones of Addington Indiana reports two years of severe eczema in her daughter. After failed remedies sleep was impossible until she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment with Resolvent. Two bottles and a soap bath yielded a permanent cure and she hopes others may benefit.
Madison Ga September 19 Commodore G N Dexter one of the oldest citizens of this city was buried there today with great ceremony. His death occurred yesterday afternoon. He was originator of the Confederate reunion and organized the first reunion of the old Third Georgia regiment at Union Point in the seventies. He followed the flag from the start of the war until its end. Nicknamed Commodore for valiant service while stationed at Pamlico he saved several from the enemy. Funeral preached from the Methodist church he belonged to and he was buried with Masonic ceremony. Deceased was over seventy years old. He leaves a wife and two sons.
An old advertisement touts Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a remarkable remedy for pain. It claims rapid relief from severe itching and discomfort, with high praise for its power and efficacy from H. Palmer & Bros.
Savannah Sept 19 Sam Small well known Georgia journalist was ordered off a Southern railway train from Ludowici by Quarantine Inspector Reed. He carried a Cuba dated certificate and, after a confrontation, was sent out of Savannah to Brunswick where he obtained a new certificate. He claimed immunity and criticized Dr Brunner’s conduct.
Denver man John Seigel, hunting grouse, hugged a lone wildcat to his chest after the animal leaped at his throat. Despite a wound and blood loss, he ran and walked nine miles down a mountain trail until two men approached. one fired, killing the cat. Seigel credited his jacket and tight grip for preventing bites as the cat struggled.
In Carneaville Georgia on September 19 Horace Brewer faced a commitment trial charged with murdering his wife Irmah Brewer. The case linked to her death weeks later at her parents Walton County home. Brewer wired as two branches emerged with kin demanding her legacy from him and warrants for robbery against others.
St Petersburg reports Emperor Nicholas IIs invitation to a second Hague peace conference after the Russo Japanese war. The Russian government says it will address foreign powers to hold talks while negotiations with the United States were kept secret. President Roosevelt is said to favor the move and may have ceded initiating authority to the emperor.
New York Sept 19 John Grady a longshoreman earning 12 a week was arrested on bigamy charges. He allegedly maintained a second home near his old residence while posing as a night watchman earning double wages. Grady and wife one wed eleven years ago and have five daughters. His wife discovered the second household after a sleeptalk and sleuthing tour.
The advertisement promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as one that works with nature to ease coughs from colds. It claims to relieve lungs, aid expectoration, open secretions, and restore health, with a focus on preventing pneumonia. Sold by H. Palmer & Song and W. J. Smith.
Savannah August 9 1905 board of directors resolves to extend the Gainesville Midland Railway as a standard broad gauge line from Jefferson Jackson to Athens Clarke via Jackson and Clarke counties. The president and vice president are authorized to advertise the resolution in newspapers for four weeks and file copies with the Secretary of State. Public notices will follow in sheriff advertisements under Georgia law.
A petition to amend the charter of an electric company seeks broad changes. It adds rights to supply electricity for compensation and assigns governance to a stockholder elected board with a president. It removes secretary and agent roles and notes all stockholders have agreed in a meeting.
In San Francisco Luther Burbank, famed for the seedless apple, predicts the rise of the over man in the United States through social evolution. He argues environment can alter temper and character, while heredity occasionally asserts itself, and that America’s mixed bloodlines will yield a finest human product through selective rearing of children and natural development.
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