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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1916
Page
6
Advice on courteous telephone use for customers. Reminds readers to stay by the phone ready to answer. Warns against asking others to hold the line and against sharing the line with many people to avoid busy signals. Encourages smiling during calls to create a positive impression.
Eastern Time trains 60 62 66 depart at 8 30 am 4 00 pm and 4 30 pm Sundays. Train 61 arrives 12 30 pm daily except Sundays. Train 63 arrives 9 40 pm and Train 67 arrives 12 00 pm Sundays only.
Train No 2 leaves Athens 7 20 a m and Train No 4 leaves Athens 2 20 p m. Train No 1 arrives Athens 11 40 a m and Train No 4 arrives Athens 6 40 p m. Nos 2 and 4 connect at Belmont for Winder Monroe and intermediate points and with the Georgia Railroad for all points and at Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern stations and with Southern Railway north and south.
Southern Railway Athens Branch trains depart daily at 8:20 am and 1:00 pm with Sunday 3:15 pm. Afternoon runs include 3:30 pm on weekdays, and arrivals are listed at 12:40 pm 6:50 pm and 9:45 am on non-Sunday days.
Georgia plans a rising network of packing houses from Moultrie to Atlanta to buy locally raised hogs and cattle. The program would link farmers through telephone associations to packers, create summer hog production, and reduce annual meat imports of 11 million dollars, backed by banker, farmer, and university support.
The projected system will allow livestock to be used as collateral for loans. Bankers now accept it because they can readily convert it to cash, unlike under older conditions when sale was uncertain.
State and county tax books are now open for returns. J. H. Dorsey, Tax Receiver, urges taxpayers to file promptly and settle obligations. Local offices receive returns and provide assistance.
Public notice advertises a mail order trial package from Foley & Co. Chicago using a cutout slip with 5 cents. It promises Foley Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds and croup Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets, mailed by H. R. Palmer & Sons.
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