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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1911
Page
1
The Mountain Club House is now open for transient guests and travelers, described as the finest resort in North Georgia. It offers meals, electric lights, running water, and 380 wide acres with shade and cool surroundings. Proprietor Craig R Arnold.
Georgia Fulton County petitioners seek incorporation as a railroad company for 101 years to build about seventy five miles from Ball Ground to the Northern State Line via Etowah River through multiple counties. They request power to construct, operate, lease, condemn, and to own electric power facilities, with capital stock set at fifty thousand dollars, and rights to amend the charter by stockholder vote. Public notice of four weeks is given in sheriff sale newspapers.
The program lists an Aug 26 event in Danttonian GA at Park Spring starting 10 am with welcome by Hon. R. H. Baker and music by W. H. Satterfield. Cash prizes for fiddling and vocal contests, a spelling contest, and business notices including subscriptions and maps. Participants must pre-register with W B Townsend.
Local items report Prof Camp and Prof Gaillard at colleges, Dahlonega visitants, a fatality in Atlanta, a lunacy adjudication, and weather quotes. Farmers discuss chicken prices and railroad impact, dental health ads, and daily newspaper offer. The town touts hotels, stationery plans, cabbage farming progress, and rising automobile use amid mountain scenery.
In a tense exchange, a speaker criticizes the framing of a race related issue as unfair, while another insists on a clear, decisive presentation. The dispute highlights differing views on how the topic should be portrayed in public discourse.
The local notice urges readers to mark the 26th inst when Dahlonega hosts a convention drawing crowds from near and far. It argues for settling the Iowa Gold Mining Co. injunction with Mrs London without shutting the mine, citing economic harm to Lumpkin county and wider region.
The piece compares seeds in a garden to personal faults. It warns that weeds, though unseen, spread from one heart to another via influence and can trouble many beyond the individual if not kept in check.
A collection of old anecdotes and quips on moral tone and human folly. A preacher critiques wage and faith while readers comment on self interest and excuses. The piece blends humor about mortgaged farms, thunder fears, and social manners with pointed observations.
A writer notes the costly and arduous process of sourcing mahogany from Central America and Mexico. Hunters find trees deep in jungles, teams cut and raft logs to rivers, and ships bring 20 to 60 thousand feet daily to New Orleans mills, with about ten million feet yearly.
Dialogue-driven note from the New York Journal shows a stubborn father and a bold suitor spiking out a marriage motive with money. The father proposes a cash price, the youth immediately assesses gain, and tension centers on the price of consent.
In a Pittsburg Press quip a wife wishes for a birthday gift beyond a cheap ninety-eight cent item as her husband vows a gift costing at least a dollar. A separate exchange mocks theater realism with an actor demanding real food and a manager offering real poison for a death scene.
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