Streetcar lines seek profits with weekly passes
Street car systems facing jitney competition adopt new revenue strategies such as one man cars higher fares and weekly passes. The Nation's Business notes Racine Wis Milwaukee Electric Railway and Lights and Chicago elevated railways have tested passes allowing unlimited rides from Saturday to Saturday, transferable among riders and messengers to aid efficiency and cash flow.
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Chicago
Racine
Wisconsin
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Lights Company
A Friend Worth While Extols the Cow’s Value to Man
A Missouri State agriculture publication runs an editorial praising the bovine as man’s oldest ally across 20,000 years. It lauds the cow as pivotal to civilization, farming, and national growth, noting her role from early forests to making the Westward expansion possible.
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Missouri State Bill of Agriculture
Old World
Columbus
America
New World
June
Athens 27 Years Ago In Banner Files
A diverse set of notes recalls past events and people in Athens. It mentions Cornelia Haredman, a jailed woman charged with murder awaiting a committal trial or grand jury action next week. Local figures including Peter Baughn, Tom Hodgson, Miss Mary Ann Peeples, Rev RM Mack, Boylls of Florida, and Midshipman Hardeman Trumby linked to Naval Academy studies or church duties are referenced with various community updates and greetings.
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Banner Files
Cornelia Haredman
Modis
Brehimond
Mary Ann Peeples
Gainesville
Gay
AL Mack
Highlands
Hardeman Trumby
Naval Academy
Anipolis
Rumby
One Town Embodies Brotherhood and Growth in Athens
The Pana Palladium motto urges brotherly love and civic betterment as Athens pursues progress. Local notes praise the Georgian Hotel manager Harry Cannon, street improvements on Hull and Washington, and traffic relief plans. The city anticipates a strong theater season with Savare’s Merry Widow at Colonial.
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Pana
Illinois
Uct
Athens
Harry Cannon
Hull Street
Washington Street
Hancock Avenue
Lumpkin
Hencock Avenue
Pulaski Stretta
Hull
Pulaski
Lumpkin Street
Fingvenstein
Howe
New York
Suvague
Quit Tobacco No-To-Bue sales pitch text
An old line advertises No-To-Bue as a remedy to break tobacco habits. It promises relief from smoking and chewing urges with a tablet, claiming complete habit breaking and financial or physical benefits, and offers a money-back guarantee if not effective.
Fragmented Caption Teases Night Event
The readable text hints at a nighttime event or show titled Merry Widow at Motany night. Names, dates, and venues are unclear due to damaged OCR but suggest a local entertainment listing with limited details. No concrete participants or outcomes could be verified from the fragment.
Walton County Tabloid Highlights and Local Tragedies
Walton fair opened with a large crowd. Noel N. Malcolm died in Tift county. A Black woman and her child were killed in their home near Social Circle as the house burned. Robbers robbed Grady nail carrier, escaping. search for suspects failed. Governor Hubbard of Texas features in poultry notes. James S. Sorrells died of heart trouble near Monroe. Walton farmers urged to destroy cotton stalks to curb weevils. In Oglethorpe County Lexington Washington road is in fine shape and will continue to Clarke county. N D Arnold reports recovery from ptomaine poisoning. Charles Crawford to run Lexington Bonded Warehouse. Jail in Crawford praised for orderly conduct. O Stevens may seek House Speakership. Fright rate troubles settled. granite quarries continue. Crawford boys perform well. local youths contributing.
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Walton County
Noel N. Malcolm
Tift
Robert Gresham
Grady
Bosti K Bt
Hubbard
Texas
Walton Poultry
James
Bis
Monroe
Awalton
Oglethorpe County
Lexington-Washington
Clarke County
N. D. Arnold
F. F. Edwards
Athens
Charles Crawford
Lexington
Stevens
Joba Sh & Young
Freight Rates May Be Lower on Shipments in Atlanta
Freight rates for live stock shipments to Atlanta may fall from seven to fourteen cents per hundredweight if carriers and shippers reach an agreement. The hearings led by Examiner Jewell in Atlanta found proposals to be approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Atlanta
Examiner Jewell
Interstate Commerce Ymmission
Gainesville Midland Railway Schedule No 2 Daily
Gainesville Midland Railway timetable lists No 2 daily service at 7 45 am and No 112 daily except Sunday at 10 45 am No 1 Gainesville departures 5 20 pm and No 1k daily except Sunday from Gainesville arriving 10 10 am Georgia Railroad schedule shows trains from Union Station to Union Point Augusta Augusta and Atlanta with times 7 25 pm 8 10 am 12 20 pm and 2 25 pm
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Georgia Railroad
Atlanta
West Point
R. R. Western Railway of
Alabama
Gainesville
Igeorgia Railroad
Union
Augusta
Point
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