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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1916
Page
6
The Emory campaign committee plans daily luncheons at 12:30 in the main assembly hall of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. The drive aims to raise $500,000 for Emory University with over $257,000 already secured and the schedule possibly extended to finish the pledge.
State Senator Roscoe Pickett, a candidate for Georgia Republican central committee chair, says a majority of congressional district groups back him. He claims Colonel Walter F. Johnson seeks a party primary to gain re election as state chair by letting all voters participate.
Crowds packed the Georgian Lyric and Victoria theaters Sunday setting moving picture attendance records with over 16 000 filmgoers. The venues operated by King’s Daughters Belgian Relief and Camp Walker groups faced legal action from John Manget, who seeks to end Sunday pictures. warrants were issued against operators and cases set for Monday at 9 am.
The Heart Songs volume titled Heart Sensa has sold over a hundred thousand copies at 1.40 each. Publisher and readers praise its 500 pages of 400 selections with words and music. Paper readers can obtain it by presenting a coupon and paying the distribution cost.
The notice invites customers to call the store to prove its superior buying power. It frames the request as a direct demonstration of cost advantages and encourages engagement through a phone call to showcase pricing capabilities.
Everett seeks body in Chattahoochee after a note from his brother warned of a body in the river. Officers drag the water from the bridge area but locate no trace of W T Everett or the missing man.
Professor W F Dykes reports a daring burglar dubbed a local Raffles is active on Piedmont avenue near Third Fourth and Fifth streets. The Dykes home at 50 Penn avenue was robbed of two diamond rings while the family slept. Harvey Hill at 664 Piedmont avenue and Harry L Wilson at 154 Myrtle street also faced break ins with mixed results. Police alerted but cautious, aim to trap the cool, deliberate intruder as he tests every likely spot in the district.
The At lantm Retail Merchants association will hold a 6:30 PM membership meeting at the Piedmont Hotel with J. P. Allen as chairman. A Dutch treat dinner at per plate is planned. The keynote focuses on cooperation and education as the group aims for a timely 9 PM adjournment.
A small crowd braved cold for the Atlanta Music Festival association free organ recital at the Auditorium. City Organist Charles A. Sheldon offered an attractive program, with notable pieces by Rubenstein and Godard praised for their renderings.
Dublin Ga February 27 Special woe serious injuries and fire in Laurens County Saturday night and Sunday. A car driven by Tom Wilkes overturned after hitting a dog near Wrightevill e injuring Wilkes and Otto Clark. Bracewell shot Clark during a dispute at Peace Hall causing arrest. Early morning Laurens Supply Company store burned. stock ruined and building badly damaged with $7,000 loss insured.
Macon Georgia February 27 special Reverend H C Dargan pastor of the First Baptist church in Macon and former president of the Southern Baptist convention has received a call to Wake Forest North Carolina and is expected to accept. He told the deacons today that after forty years in the ministry the workload has wearied him and the Wake Forest field offers lighter duties. He will announce his decision within two weeks. Dargan has led the Macon church nine years and headed the Southern Baptist convention four years. He is renowned as a man of letters and one of the souths most brilliant ministers.
Columbus February 27. Muncege county will not seek a senatorial rotation change this year keeping its regular term. This sparked talk that H Wohlwender may run for the senate after eight years in the House. He says no announcement now but will state plans when the time comes.
The East Point Presbyterian sermon by Dr A R Holderby attacked Pastor Russell’s prediction of the millennium. He asserted Jesus will return in glory and end wickedness, denouncing Russell’s prophecies as unfounded while affirming the second coming as certain and imminent.
A terse OCR fragment references Seashare 5 and sting in a rear area, followed by garbled words and mentions of water or flood related damage. The readable text is sparse, with no clear event, date, or location to establish a full news item.
Doct ors and druggists praise a new salve called Eucapine Salve for croup cough hoarseness and other air passage inflammations. Physicians and pharmacists nationwide call it a near perfect antidote to catarrhal inflammations with delightful effect. It is advertised as indispensable for every family medicine chest with full directions and mail order available from Bugaping Chemical Co Atlanta Ga.
An ad for Schiffmanns New Concentrated Expectorant sold at Jacobs Drug Stores promises a money back guarantee if the remedy does not help bronchitis whooping cough croup or other bronchial ailments. The ad touts large bottle value and non narcotic ingredients with a home mixing method and assures no risk under the guarantee by R J Schiffman of St. Paul Minnesota.
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