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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1917
Page
3
Train schedule listing Seaboard Air Line departures for southbound No 11 at 6 02 am No 17 at 7 10 am No 6 at 3 04 pm No 29 at 6 18 pm and northbound No 30 at 10 40 am No 6 at 5 62 pm No 18 at 7 45 pm and No 12 at 11 45 pm with various times and destinations.
Eastern time timetable notes daily Train 60 departs Athena 6 35 am. Train 63 runs daily except Sunday from Athens at 4 pm. Train 64 Sunday only from Athens at 4 60 pm. Train 61 daily except Sunday arrives Athens 12 59 noon. Train 53 daily arrives Athens 12 30 am. Train 65 Sunday only arrives Athens 12 30 noon.
Schedule timetable from Gamnesville Midland Ay lists Train No 2 leaving Athens at 7 20 am Train No 4 leaving Athens at 2 20 pm Train No 1 arriving Athens at 11 40 pm Train No 4 arriving Athens at 4 09 am Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder and Monroe and intermediate points with Georgia Railroad for all points and at Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern Stations and with Southern Railway forth and south.
Southern Railway Athens Branch lists daily train departures and arrivals to multiple points with times 8:20 am 1:00 pm 8:16 pm and 12:20 am, and Sunday-excluded schedules. Information via Williams commercial agent in Sawston. ticket agent phone numbers provided.
The Clarke County Sunday School Association schedules two division meetings in this city on the 25th and 26th of this month. A highlight will be the presence and addresses of William A. Brown of Chicago, a renowned Sunday school leader.
The Supreme Court ruled against about 3800 railroad claims seeking roughly 35 million dollars in additional compensation for carrying mail from 1907 to 1911. The Chicago & Alton and Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroads led suits challenging the seven day divisor, arguing Sundays should be included in weight calculations.
The University of Georgia meets Auburn next Friday at 8 30 PM in the University Gym to start the season. Auburn opened with a 42 17 win over Birmingham Athletic Club in their new Auburn gym. лид
Local note hails Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as highly effective for hacking coughs and colds. A testimonial from J K Moore of Lost Valley Georgia says multiple bottles cured his condition. Also announced is a piano contest entry for Sarah Will Collins, daughter of Mr and Mrs W T Collins, Baby No 11.
Hastings' Seeds announces a free Hastings' 1917 seed catalog for readers of the paper. The brochure covers vegetables, grasses, clover, and flowers, plus how to receive five free flower varieties. It urges gardeners to request the catalog to improve spring planting success with dependable seeds from H. G. Hastings Co. Atlanta Ga.
Atlanta’s Capital City Club hosted General Leonard Wood who recalled early Georgia Tech football and a Yale-like rivalry with Georgia and Auburn. He spoke of training Tech’s first team, watching a captain vow to beat him, and later foiling the captain as a referee in a tense Tech Auburn game with sharp, reflective humor.
In Athens Mrs. J R Martin of 662 Pulaski St reports kidney trouble left her bed bound before taking four boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills. She recovered and, over six years later, still endorses the remedy. Price 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Baseball plans for 1917 pennant races show over seventy percent of clubs returning to last year’s spring camps while one American League team departs for a new site. National League clubs shift training locations including Chicago Pasadena and Brooklyn Hot Springs. Washington heads to Augusta and several clubs stay at traditional venues. The ICAA track meet may move to Cornell or Princeton with strong bids from Harvard and Pennsylvania.
An advertisement touts Grove's The Old Standard Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It also notes a piano contest entry for Sarah Will Gollins, Lina, Baby No. 11.
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