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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1915
Page
7
Georgia Railroad schedule lists daily departures for multiple trains between 8:55 a m and 4:25 p m with Sunday exceptions. Arrival times include trains 51 53 and 55 with 1 20 p m 9 20 p m and 8 a m respectively, noting Sunday variances.
Schedule effective July 11 1915 shows No 2 leaving Athens 7 20 am No 4 2 30 pm No 1 arriving 11 25 am and No 8 at 6 35 pm. Nos 4 and 4 connect at Belmon for Winder Monroe and intermediate points with the Georgia Railroad for all points and at Gainesville for Gainesville Northwestern stations with Southern Railway north and south.
Train times for daily and Sunday departures and all points listed with specific times. Information contact Aul Pinkerton or E Shelton for tickets and schedules.
A damaged schedule fragment lists Seaboard Air Line trains with varying departure times including No 21 at 5:35 am No 17 at 7:10 am No 6 at 3:46 pm No 29 at 6:17 pm northbound No 30 at 10:40 am No 6 at 6:17 pm No 18 at 1:45 pm and No 12 at 4:20 pm The text is partial and time entries are inconsistently printed.
Georgia farmers face widespread army worm damage to alfalfa sorghum and young corn. State entomologist E Lee Worsham recommends arsenate of lead or Paris green sprays for corn and sorghum and dusting for alfalfa, with thorough field edges treated to form a barrier against spread.
An old advertising warning promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, pleasant vegetable liver remedy for biliousness constipation and sluggishness. It claims calomel is dangerous mercury causing salivation and weakness and urges trying the Liver Tone with a money back guarantee if not acting better.
The article notes about eight hundred rose varieties and over four hundred chrysanthemum varieties, highlighting the diversity of both flowers.
A Montgomery garage proprietor, G. A. Miller, rode five reels of motion picture film on a motorcycle from Montgomery to Athens via Atlanta in seven hours to deliver the blind spot in time for the Elite theatre showing of Crooky featuring Frank Daniel. He started at 9 am after missing a train connection and completed the trip just after 4 pm, delivering the films for a 5 pm showing. Crowds viewed the film and lines formed for seats in Athens yesterday.
Atlanta Ga August 31 Special to the Banner The pending Georgia freight rate problem includes a petition by carriers to adopt a southern classification Printing would cost Georgia not less than 50000 and possibly 68000 The classification would cover about 8000 articles across 60 newspaper columns and state printing costs for a year are set at 2000 The move may follow a broader intra state freight rate revision plan.
At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington, a vault stores about 70,000 dies, plates, zinc sheets and etched stones used for stamps and money. The vault, 40 by 80 feet and 20 feet high, is reinforced with steel rails, burglar alarm wires, and a 25 ton door.
A Gowanda New York resident Mrs. T N Witherall credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with relieving her summer complaint pain quickly after exposure. Advertisements praise Foley’s Honey and Tar for coughs and lung relief. Hay fever and asthma sufferers are noted as benefiting from these remedies.
Sheriff Haley and a posse chased Will Moore a check forger for twenty four hours. He was wounded in a running duel near Elberton before being captured at Heardmont eleven miles away. He endured birdshot injuries but survived and was jailed in Elberton awaiting fate.
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