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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
2
Letters from Rev Geo A E Troutman and Rev H W Tate praise Peruna for catarrh throat and breathing issues, with testimonials from P E Swanstrom and others. Notes mention Peruna tablets as a liquid alternative and offer free Peruna Almanac for 1908. Mrs Patrick Campbell cited. cigaret incident at Plaza Hotel tea-room noted.
Advertisement asserts a single cure for a cold in one day using Laxative Bromo Quinine. It notes signature of E. W. Grove and a price of 25 cents, claiming worldwide use.
A major South Carolina dispensary graft case unfolds in Columbia with Attorney General Lyon leading the probe aided by Col T B Felder and Gen Clifford L Anderson. Warrants target forty to fifty suspects nationwide. The case centers on Mullman & Co and alleges $63 000 in overcharges with total graft estimated at 4 to 5 million over 14 years. Indictments expected from Atlanta to Savannah.
James Harper and W T Smith, alleged safe blowers, claim National Bank of BattlesWurgy president A F Thomason gave them the safe combination while walking in his sleep. The pair say they watched Thomason enter the bank at night and later found him asleep as they opened the safe and took the money in Seattle and brought details to Jackson.
Commander Alexis Diatchkoff, a representative of the Russian admiralty, is following the American battleship fleet under Rear Admiral Evans on its voyage around South America. He travels from port to port by any means available to learn lessons from the trip.
Pennsylvania Supreme Court declared the two cent rate law unconstitutional affirming the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court opinion from September. The ruling states the statute violates constitutional standards and ends the current rate policy.
Maj William F Hancock of the coast artillery corps stationed at Fort Barrancas Florida was arraigned before a general court martial at the Department of the Gulf headquarters in Atlanta on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer addiction to drunkenness and breaking a pledge to stop drinking.
Berlin authorities test an underground tube system linking the central post office with major stations and districts. Two rail sets run in the same tube on separate levels, carrying small electric carriages in a driverless, automatic line. Up to six carriages run together, delivering letters across Berlin in a quarter of former time.
Aluminum gains in machine building with crank cases gear boxes and electrical wires. The article notes aluminum as a major substitute for tin due to lower cost vast ore supply and favorable properties. As production falls in price uses will rise and demand remains ahead of supply.
Dentist Dr. Radard of Geneva reports to the Swiss Society of Odontology that blue electric light rays on the eye can induce complete narcosis, allowing painless dental procedures. Violet blue and green rays are less effective, while yellow and red rays have no effect. The cause remains undefined.
A reader recounts her mother’s seven year battle with nervous headaches and coffee, noting a switch to Postum Food Coffee cured headaches. The story describes teaching a friend to prepare Postum properly, leading to coffee banishment in two homes and praising the product from Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan.
Delegates from Virginia to Kentucky urged to press Congress for a favorable report on a national Appalachian forest preserve of five million acres. Georgia Governor Hoke Smith to mobilize southern states and women's clubs for a January 30 House Agriculture Committee hearing.
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