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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1913
Page
1
The town's principal J. G. Sims states a citizen rate is available while non residents pay only $1.00 per month, outlining the cost policy for those living outside the town.
A New York American note recalls a pilgrim's tale from Arkansas about a lean dog chasing its shadow on a dusty road. He describes a cabin scene with a bony man, corncob cigarette, and yard fowls while a pump-like pig hides under a house in the heat.
The article recalls slow travel in colonial times as stages between Boston and Portsmouth ran weekly by two horses with three passengers. Baker Metting in Portsmouth walked 66 miles to Boston in a day to buy flour, then sailed home and walked back the next day, continuing this until age eighty.
In New York Rockefeller dodges a reporter asking if his net worth is 900 million dollars. He urges economy and saving to grow richer someday. He warns prosperity has ruined many, but suggests ruin by prosperity is preferable to ruin by adversity.
Butler, a borough of about 20 000, forms a 400 member boosting committee and a 600000 dollar boosting fund. The town aims to grow population and commerce to win metropolitan status, following its prior boasts and plans to attract business and manufacturing.
A long column recalls Alma-Tadema and Maeterlinck as cultural icons whose national identities blur across Britain France and Belgium. It also highlights Mrs J Borden Harriman, social leader and philanthropist, knitting waistcoats for her husband as a refined domestic pastime.
Excavations at Uriconium, a Roman city buried on a 170 acre site six miles south of Shrewsbury, begin soon over several summers. Research aims to date first occupation and confirm legends of destruction. Coins indicate occupation lasting to end of the fourth century.
A stout middle aged man accepts a ride from a married couple. In the front seat a sailor hatted woman loses her hat to the wind and a chase ensues. A passing car of youths taunts with a quip about the odds on the hat.
Me Maria scolds going to the laundry as its managers appear reactionary. Ile notes bandana handkerchiefs being run through a mangle by the staff seen that morning.
A brief cartoon caption shows a character wishing to be a horse to reach grasa and find clover, a humorous notion of escape and simple abundance.
C I Keith of Kansas City praises Filipino youth in baseball and girls basketball across the islands. He notes U S Army schools fostering basketball, Igorotes in Lu zon showing curve pitching, and teams wearing letters on uniforms as the national game spreads during interprovincial meets attracting villagers who come to watch and root for favorites.
A Salt Lake Tribune Rome letter describes a hike from Pompeii to Vesuvius where engineer Mr Towers balked at the wind driven storm of gravel and sand. Mrs Cosgriff Miss Towers and the narrator could not reach the summit. The scene evokes an Irish quip about kissing the sweetheart at the mouth of the crater.
A Tompkinsville shop window displays wire face screens to protect babies during Italian Sunday outings. Shopkeeper notes carriages shower passing revelers with hard candy pellets the size of a pigeon eye, risking eye injuries to infants. mothers now secure screens over babies until candy is discarded.
Mrs Shepard and Helena share a playful moment on the piazza. Helena looks at Mrs Shepard's white canvas shoes and asks about white stockings. She muses on grown women wearing white stockings and links it to suffragettes in a quiet, wry observation.
The Denver Board of Education has created a program for girls aged over twelve to prepare for motherhood and domestic life. The curriculum includes cooking sewing laundry work general house management and child care duties.
The text argues private ownership is unlikely to predate common ownership and suggests joint or communal possession as the archaic model. It states property once belonged to larger societies rather than individuals, with the patriarchal system as the historical norm across many countries.
In a wry exchange a speaker attributes a young man’s rough appearance to sowing wild oats, highlighting a mutual joke about youthful indiscretions and appearances.
Ground broken at Winfield United States for a school for women to study plumbing building masonry and similar trades. The facility will house 150 students with more than half already enrolled.
A brief citation describes Mrs. Jinks leaving early with the stated reason that she needed to tend to her baby, prompting curiosity about her excuse. The fragment hints at domestic concerns influencing daytime movements in a social scene.
A fragment features a craftsman praising burnt wood work and a sly line about a daughter who is described as a fine pyromaniac, implying a dark humor or implied backstory in a narrow dialogue snippet. The exchange hints at a creator’s pride and a provocative personal edge.
Petitioners in Lumpkin County Georgia seek incorporation of the Dahlonega and Gainesville Transportation Company for twenty years with stock to start at 100000 dollars, later up to 500000, to operate transportation and related services from Dahlonega to Gainesville, with rights to establish branches, own real estate, build roads, generate power, run telephones, and issue bonds, subject to Georgia law. The plan includes a corporate seal, bylaws, board, and usual corporate powers, with court approval requested.
G Fi McGurs advertises timely jewelry work and repairs with reasonable prices. It promises on hand eyewear options and a broad selection of musical instruments for the reader.
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