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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
2
A mosaic of local politics and social comment runs through a Georgia item page. Mentions Gov Slaton and the Frank case, legislature sessions, taxes on fly killings, large flags, a 500 mile war veteran trek, and jail escapes.
Georgia turmoil surrounds Leo M. Frank after a governor commutes his death sentence to life and moves him to the state farm at Milledgeville. Crowds mob, police clash, and officials fear violence as Governor Slaton faces protests and the public learns of the transfer.
A year ago Lumpkin County registrars excluded several residents who had not registered six months before the stock law election. Critics now question compliance as the Civil Code Section 2037 requires all persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly to participate. The dispute centers on who was properly eligible under the law.
A Georgia law from 1914 warns against selling or possessing for human food carcasses from animals slaughtered or handled under unsanitary conditions. The list of conditions includes dilapidated slaughterhouses, bloody floors, poor drainage, maggots, unclean water, hogs in yards, offal, and inadequate cold storage.
For sale by L. M. Poore and Jovegn R F D Route 2 a thresh box Gunman Walker misplaced a pocketbook call to identify and describe. New suit stock offered by F Anderson. C M Moore advertises 90 day cut prices on marble tombstones. Blount Buggies line promoted with rubber and steel tired buggies from J M Brooksup & Sons.
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