24 Feb 1911
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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1911
Page
1
A man recounts a failed hunting trip with three companions after twelve miles in cold rain. A rabbit jumps the log and is shot, but the narrator cannot find any game or firewood. The mishap ends with a wrecked horse and a vow never to hunt rabbits again.
A reflection on longing for a better life beyond home and work, noting the paradox of desire. The piece cites Thackeray and Robert Collyer to contrast childhood wants with adult contentment. It frames contentment as elusive in modern American life.
Sir Walter Scott and Lady Scott stroll near Abbotsford where ewes and playful lambs inspire thoughts on peace and innocence. The conversation praises lambs as delightful animals and notes a humorous nod to mint sauce.
In January in Cannes Mr and Mrs Gladstone attend the English church. The sermon begins and Mr Gladstone frowns and squirms then whispers to his wife. She reassures him with a smile and tells him to sleep, promising to do more good.
The Noaarr founder W G McNelly now leads the West Point Herald, promising engaging prose. Farmers have posted lands, bond election rules shift to two thirds of the last registered list, with Lumpkin county needing 652 votes to carry. A Pentecostal issue shows no lasting hard feelings. Jess Lance survives an automobile scare near Gainesville, a legal settlement follows.
The piece notes syrup sales boosting farm income and a January 4 wedding of Harry L. Baker to Annie May Nix in Atlanta while he attends college here. It mentions a quarantined drummer with smallpox sightings between Gainesville and Atlanta, suspension of Norcross schools, and a shooting in Gamlog District Union County involving Dr. Patton.
The Riverside dispatch notes Ed L Foster has been named postmaster at Blairsville. The piece surveys wide local news including divorces granted in Macon, a Danville grand jury returning 200 bills, a defeated county bond issue, pension increases, prison death stats in Atlanta, and various oddities from Marietta News to Dalton Citizen. It also recounts war end-date debates and a New York World explanation.
In White County Georgia on February 18 1911 J J Turner swore an affidavit proving a church settlement between Revs W N Turner and Rh B Etris was peaceful and that a circulating race row report was false, urging the editor to publish names of the rumor starters.
A humorous note explains editors profit from long obituaries and wedding notices, detailing payments to doctors ministers undertakers and editors through life events. It adds a tangent about a Dade county distillery case where state and federal officials clash over liquor shipped out of Georgia.
Robert Barr recalls visiting Captain Mayne Reid in London after receiving his address. Barr mistook a corner house for Reid’s home and was admitted by a gate, only to meet Charles Reade instead when Reid appeared frigidly and left. Reid lived on a Maidan Vale street while Reade resided nearby.
The London Mail recounts mirrors used in ceilings by Bean Brummell during exile to study elegance. The Duchess of Cleveland and a Yorkshire gentleman also had mirrored ceilings for vanity or sport, with a dying cockfighter still watching fights reflected above.
A biography of Alexander Hamilton notes a French observer’s remark about Hamilton’s work ethic. Talleyrand reportedly said a man who built a nation’s fortune labors to support his family, illustrating the balance between public duty and private duties cited in Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton’s text.
Two women argued before a magistrate over ownership of a pallet and pullet. The magistrate declared the pullet mine and ordered it to be taken to the house for the cook, resolving the ownership dispute.
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