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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
1
The Mountain Club House welcomes the transient and traveling public praising itself as the finest resort in North Georgina. It offers electric lights, running water, 80 acres in park with shade and cool surroundings under proprietor Craig R Arnold.
A Georgia petition from Walton County Athapta requests incorporation of Towal Valley Railway Company for 101 years with rights to build operate and lease rail lines from Ball Ground through Cherokee Forsyth Dawson Lumpkin White and Towns counties including electric power facilities and eminent domain. Capital stock set at 50000 dollars, stock to 500 shares of 100 dollars each, authority to amend charter, public notice given for four weeks.
The Aug 26 event at Park Sprini features a fiddling contest with prizes of 5 2.50 and 1, singing contests with up to 10, 5, and 2.50, and a spelling contest with town and country pupils. judges chosen by participants, with later prize announcements by Ditey R. Glenn. Membership incentives include newspaper subscriptions and maps. recipes for Spanish mackerel appear in late notices.
Local items report baptisms at Oak Grove on the fourth Sunday and revival efforts at Yahoda. Dahlonega sees better roads, new farm and land listings, a fiddlers convention, and a push to boost syrup production and Rural Route 2 patronage while noting health and community developments.
Local notes recount court matters and conventions with Judge Jones and Solicitor McMillian set to attend on the 26th. Dr Glenn forecasts strong fall college attendance while Lumpkin County soil and farming gains are praised. A dynamite incident near Tunyard Paralyzer spurs moral warnings about behavior. July history shows temps, rainfall, and records. Community viewers describe a court trial scene with Methodists Baptists and Pentecostals attending.
The editor laments press faults and praises the press as a town institution. He describes a paper that protects some names while omitting others and condemns its errors and libel risks in a sharp, satirical assessment.
A Marion Georgia paper quotes wry anecdotes about prices for services from a lawyer ten dollars for ten minutes to an undertaker one hundred for a funeral. It mocks editors who chase facts, write up weddings and deaths, praise too long, and face outrage for small extra charges.
A compact denunciation on grumbling in daily life contrasts hot and cold weather complaints with wealthy discontent and the woes of job seeking. The dialogue touches on a book agent and a student’s reluctance while noting quiet legislative halls.
An account of Robert Damiens and his 1757 assassination attempt on Louis XV. The text describes his capture, torture, trial, and execution by quartering with horses on the Place de la Greve, followed by burning and family banishment.
A century old law in France required bankrupts to wear green caps to prevent imposition on traders. Edicts expanded bankruptcy privileges yet punished public appearance without caps, and the author notes that modern streets would look notably greener if debtors still wore them.
The article urges staying calm in public and private settings, arguing temper loss ruins hostess efforts and unsettles guests, violating unwritten social rules of good manners and decorum. It emphasizes that public displays are unforgivable and disrupt the outward calm essential to good society.
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