Georgia Railroad Schedule Effective May 3 1914
Train timetable notes Eastern Time and train numbers 60 54 58 51 53 55 with departures and arrivals listed daily except Sunday.
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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1914
Page
9
Train timetable notes Eastern Time and train numbers 60 54 58 51 53 55 with departures and arrivals listed daily except Sunday.
Thawing frost and April rains bring cold and coughs with fever and stuffed head. Dr King’s New Discovery is advertised to soothe throat and lungs, stop coughing, and clear fever. Testimonies claim cure after other remedies failed with money back guarantee. Available from druggists in 50 cents and one dollar sizes. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve also advertised for sores.
Fragmentary report suggests mediators may be sidelined as events could unfold quickly between now and Wednesday. The Parks incident threatens disruption to a peace‑seeking secretary and president, potentially leaving mediators without solid guidance.
Berlin reports rising German worry over Russia including possible trade bans and constraints on labor, grains, and horse exports. Moscow’s actions and incidents with German firms spark concern of a broader economic clash alongside political hostility.
LSU captured the Southern Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association track championship with 34 points in Meridian Mississippi. Mississippi Aggies finished second with 30, Tulane third 24, Vanderbilt fourth 17. records fell in the two twenty hurdles high jump and relay.
Budapest reports Dr. Szekely has developed a baldness treatment by sewing hairs into the scalp at Saint Stephane Hospital. The procedure implants up to 50,000 hairs per patient using fine gold wires and subcutaneous anchors, with about five hundred hairs per operation in three quarters of an hour.
New York May 16. Outbound ocean liners are booked to capacity as the spring exodus begins. Over a hundred thousand transatlantic tourists will depart in weeks, bringing fifty zillions in spending abroad. Public demand grows for swift action in Mexico as Gotham firms militia to defend, with 1,200 girls forming protective leagues to curb white slavery and detain exploiters.
Philanthropy at Fulton Market feeds 300 women and children weekly. Dick Flooley, serving market trucks, began purchasing fresh fish for ragged residents, yielding 30 barrels of fish donated by stall keepers and marketmen each Friday at dawn.
Health authorities announce ultraviolet sterilization for city public baths this summer. A mercury vapor arc lamp under a rock crystal will emit deadly rays to kill germs in the pools, though researchers admit uncertainty about outcomes.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a mild laxative that purifies the blood and cleanses stomach, liver, and kidneys. It claims constipation relief and overall well being for 25 cents at the druggist. A separate note describes a specialized instrument by Dr Ze kely for gold wire hair implantation promising natural hair after tissue forms and rapid inflammation cure.
Colquitt county prepares to ship over a quarter of a million dollars in garden produce including 1200 acres of Irish potatoes and 1000 acres of cantaloupes. Tomatoes cucumbers beans cabbage and watermelons are readied for markets with a new packing house and federation support to ensure top prices.
Washington May 16 inquiry at the National Geographic Society reveals the Watussi of Ruana German East Africa as the world’s highest jumpers. Duke Adolf Frederick notes eight feet five inches, surpassing the record by nearly two feet, with impressive lanky figures and Indianlike profiles.
The article details Ruanda as the last centralized sultanate with a single absolute ruler, high reverence for the Sultan, and property rights kept by the ruler. It describes social classes the Watussi Wahutu and Batwa, the Watussi’s tall stature and refined physique, and notes the pygmies as compact builders with bark fiber clothing.
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