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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1915
Page
6
A woman from North Carolina recounts severe left side pains and near suffocation. After medical help failed, she started Cardui and claims it improved her condition and helped others, urging other women to try the medicine for female troubles and strength.
Southern Railway Co Athens Branch lists daily and Sunday train departures and arrivals. Departures include 1:00 p m daily all points 3:16 p m Sundays only 3:45 p m daily except Sunday. Arrivals show 12:40 p m 41 points daily and 6:50 p m daily except Sunday with 9:45 a m on other days. Contact Paul Pinkerton or R L Johnson for information.
Eastern time timetable shows two Athens departures at 7 00 am and 1 00 pm with arrivals at Athens 11 25 am and 6 26 pm. Trains 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder Monroe and intermediate points and link with Georgia Railroad and Southern Railway routes via Gainesville.
Mrs Elmer Hatch of Peru Indiana writes that she suffers from rheumatic attacks for years and Chamberlains Liniment relieves her immediately. She recommends it to others and notes it is sold by druggists and dealers at small cost.
A British freighter captain from London and his nine month old Madagascar loris named Jim travels from Rangoon toward Buenos Ayres. Crew protests keep Jim from Bronx Zoo plans as he charms workers, climbs shipboard, and entertains with two tongues and opera-like chirps while maintaining odd cleanliness habits aboard the Hylas.
The article details a broad naval program with the strongest fleet seen at Guantanamo Bay, plans for War games in Narragansett Bay and New York, and a June review at Hampton Roads. It notes repairs, development of new fighting machines, and possible addition of Oklahoma and Nevada to a fleet of eight dreadnaughts and four superdreadnoughts, plus the 14 inch guns aboard Texas and New York.
In Tsaritzin area Cossack Ivan Chourtenko awakened in his coffin during burial, prompting panic. He later described loss of speech but preserved hearing, returning to his village to attend his own funeral feast hosted by the military governor with doctors and officials in attendance.
In Oakland a detective recovers $100 worth of gold dental work from William Rosche alias Charles H. Jones, suspected of robbing Tait's Dental Parlors Across the transbay city. The arrest follows a foiled escape at the corner of Sixteenth and San Pedro streets where a patient was caught with stolen mouth pieces.
Alton Illinois. Peter Houseman lost his job as engineer of the Illinois Terminal railroad after a black cat dashed across the track. He hit the air brake and stopped the train then fired snowballs at a hedge tree where the cat perched. The incident led to his dismissal by railway officials.
In Petersburg Indiana the theft of about a dozen rubber pairs from a cottage prayer porch was solved when rubbers were found hidden in outbuildings. A dog pup caused the mischief as worshippers trudged mud to their homes.
London Truth argues that after deductions Indian army officers will be worse off than British peers because they miss field allowances though many are married and sent families to England at great expense. It accuses the government of breaking the wartime pledge to protect officers from worse positions.
Whooping cough relief touts Dr Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey as soothing throat and lung lining, loosening mucus and easing severe coughing. Advertised for families with children, available from doctors and druggists, with price 25 to 60 cents. Electric Bitters also pitched as a spring tonic.
An 85 year old, Uncle Peter T Hansen, celebrated by finally getting four new molars after a feverish illness at the Marin county almshouse. County physician J H Kuser and Dr Ward J Stone determined the dental source of his ailment. He ate chicken that night and was proud of the new teeth.
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