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No Sunday streetcars. taxes rise and local gossip abounds
The Official Organ notes a legislator’s push to ban streetcar operation on Sundays, while Georgia tax returns rise by 85,781,465 over last year. It mentions Dr. Arthur Van Dyke’s candidacy in Atlanta, Senator Clay’s postal reform push, a Bethlehem-like lightning strike on a barn near Athens killing livestock, and various local skirmishes and scandals in Marietta Gainesville Commerce News Blairsville and Columbus. A Dah Lonega Nugget editor reports a cabbage snake sighting and jokes about prohibition laws, with Deputy Marshal Bowling reporting only two prisoners in four months. Edmonson wives dispute over S H Edmonson in Columbus ends with him fleeing.
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