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Excerpted notes on politics crime and weather from Georgia weekly
The itemized notes cover liquor prices in Atlanta hotels, tax debates and capital relocation fights between Macon and Atlanta, road bonds in Forsyth and Auraria areas, a planned heavyweights fight, local deaths and a fatal lightning strike in Jackson county, a planned road survey to Chapman store, and a mocking Ledger publication alleging vast moonshine production in Dawson Lumpkin and Union counties.
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Forsyth County
Dahlonega
Cumming
Atlanta
J. W. Boyd
Chapman
Highway Commission
Auraria
Birmingham
Ala
Dawsonville
Dawson County
Union
Mountain Counties
Dawson
Lumpkin