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Newspaper

Atlanta Constitution

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Apr 29, 1906

Page

18

Wilkes Primary Tuesday Sparks County Contests

Wilkes county voters face a Tuesday primary selecting county officials for two years and legislative members. The district executive committee’s exclusion of congressional candidates ignites dispute, as local factions argue over timing and representation in upcoming nominating conventions. The sheriff, John W Callaway, shifts to run for county commissioner, while incumbent DS Standard Flewell remains in the race. both are popular with no clear winner. The congressmen race in Wilkes hinges on district plans, with others predicting delegate impact on the August convention.

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Extraordinary Heiress Dorothy Amhurst Returns Home

Dorothy Amhurst, famed Bar Harbor beauty famed for inheritances and disappearance, returns to America. Her adventures during months of absence rival Arabian Nights and tie to the Lermontoff kidnapping and Navy officer banishments. Robert Barr fiction and the $150,000 series debut in The Sun and Constitution coverage.

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Turpentine Plant Burned and Mules Killed in Georgia

Valdosta Ga April 23 A turpentine plant near Sparks operated by G W Phillips was set fire by an incendiary last night Four mules perished and a pile of turpentine implements was destroyed The loss is estimated at 260000 Washington news mentions a new company for Washington to be formed April 28 and a Georgia troop train muster. Indicted thirty one times in Jergo on April 28 the grand jury returns indictments against Joln Cooke former clerk for embezzlement conspiracy and public record filing offenses.

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The Belle of Avenue A On New York Stage

Prominent performers from Fort Ds and legitimate theater join vaudeville previews as McIntyre Heath Midgley and Carlisle George Evans Elise Fay. A H Woods presents Williams Hoffman musical comedy with Elsie Fay in the lead and a lavish Gates Morange designed block on Avenue A. The show features 32 numbers and a staging that moves Fifth Avenue Central Park Bowery through Act Three.

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Atlanta Churches Hold Live Revivals Across City

Multiple Atlanta congregations including Baptists and Methodists are conducting nightly revival services to spark widespread church action. A Philadelphia visit noted torrey inspired wave prompts daily prayer meetings and hoped conversions. Grace Methodist and Westminster Presbyterian report ongoing revivals with expected converts from recent meetings.

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Sunrise Prayer Meeting At Jefferson Street Methodist

The Jefferson Street Methodist church holds a Sunday sunrise prayer meeting led by Rev Mr Lyle due to growing spiritual fervor among members. The event marks a weekly morning gathering to start the day with devotion and reflection.

Jefferson Street Methodist Church Lyle

Big increase in clearings report from Atlanta Clearing House

The Atlanta Clearing House Association reported a healthy banking season. For the past week clearings reached 33 626 703.97, rising by over a million dollars from the prior week, and yesterday’s figure was 3 788 629.67, up about 349 000 from the same day in 1905.

Clearmg House Association Atlanta Clearing House Association Clearing House Association

Husband battered wife with hammer in court

J Albert, a carpenter of 145 Watton Street, was arraigned in the recorders court on a charge of striking his wife in the mouth with a hammer. Mrs Albert testified she supported herself, three children, and an aged mother by running a boarding house, and that her husband’s spree and drinking led to the assault. The hammer blow bruised her wrist and mouth. Albert denied the incident as a mother in law dispute. he was held in $25 bond. The case awaits further action.

J. Albert W. M Albert Watton Street Recorders Court Bned Albert Mra Albert Wnimmer

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