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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1914
Page
6
In June 1914 Royal Society Package Goods are offered at a reduced price to clear shelves. The stock includes each article with complete threads to work. Prices printed on the envelope.
An Atlanta Elks committee reports unanimously in favor of inviting the Elks convention to Atlanta in 1916 after surveying sentiment. The group, with 14 present at the Peachtree Road home of Wal ter F Andrews, elected Mr Andrews chairman and Fred Houser secretary. A large Atlanta Elk delegation will travel to Denver for the July convention to press Atlanta’s bid.
The Forsyth hosts Kenny, Nobody and Platt in a famed Will and Casey Jones race act that nearly derailed the show amid a stage hazard. Claire Rochester from Atlanta showcases a rare soprano and baritone range. Dane Claudius and Lillian Scarlett perform a banjo specialty with vintage song lyrics on screen. Tolph Lynn and ten perform a one act musical The Purple Lads. Emma Bunting reprises a ta nloid Princess of Patches routine. At the Lyric Lucille LaVerne offers four stage pieces The Man in the Street Diagnosis In the Dragons Claws and a sprightly comedy.
Rexall delegates arrive in Atlanta for the twelfth United Drug Company convention with 80 Rexallies from across the country. The three day program features tea dances, theater parties, dinners, and city tours amid a grand Auditorium setup, including a Taft Hall business program, a boxing event, and a musical festival for women, plus a grand automobile drawing and late night dancing.
Forbes Aylmer directed the original Little Theatre Philadelphia productions and earns praise for reviving four short master pieces. Arthur Schnitzler’s Literature sketches approach danger. Middlemass and Blakeney gain bold opportunities. The review lauds Aylmer as The Man in the Street and Quonge Mong in The Dragons Claws, with strong support from Miss Haskell Stewart and the Atlanta cast, including Julien Whitten.
Obituary notices report deaths in Fairburn and surrounding Georgia towns. Mira Nelle Harris aged 24 dies after brief illness at home near Fairburn. Other obituaries list Mrs Martha Ata Sheridan age 80, Mrs Florence Underwood OCallaghan, John Henry Patterson 65, Mrs cleaners Caraway 60, Dr Welliam Staley Americus druggist, infant Leonore Patterson, B M Luke of Nashville, and several other deaths with funeral plans and interment details across Macon, Columbus, Americus, and Carrollton areas.
Vance Geameer promotes variety at the Granda. This week's program features Sidney Drew in a live comedy, a Mexico thriller with intense realism, a dramatic at sea disaster titled Lost in Mid Ocean, and the singer Moss Jessie Houston. The Vita graph company’s Goodness Gracious and Lost at Sea headline, followed by The Billionaire after three days.
In a Williams hearing Nick Wilburn awaiting commutation spoke as a prisoner for the murder of James King a Jones county farmer. The defendant read a statement claiming Mrs King pursued him and urged murder to collect her husband’s $2000 life policy. The claim adds she manipulated him and proposed daily meetings in the woods prior to the crime.
Miss Daisy Dunlap, former general secretary of the WCA, fell from a bicycle on Dearing street, ran off an embankment, and sustained two broken arms, two broken ribs, a scalp wound, and eye injury while visiting a home. She was to leave for Alabama soon.
Governor Slaton appoints J A Drake of Atlanta to take testimony in the Ducktown Copper Company litigation. Drake, a well known attorney, will meet the needs of the case with experience and under the guidance of Attorney General Warren Grice who may adjust duties to oversee this phase. Proceedings noted as argued and submitted with related cases listed from various counties.
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