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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1906
Page
4
The London Chronicle critiques Berlin as an overbuilt, new looking capital that lacks spontaneity and life. The writer notes brand new streets, buildings, and vehicles making the city seem artificial and village like beside London, warning against basing capitals on polished but soulless planning.
The article praises Girgenti Sicily as the most beautiful city of antiquity with ruins rivaling Acragas and Agri Gentum. It describes sunset temples gleaming and the dusky town, sea, and surrounding landscape as unforgettable. It also notes prime viewpoints from Taormina Hotel Timeo Madonna del Tindaro and Hotel Belvedere.
The St Lawrence voyage of Gaspar Cortereul in 1590 sparked the tale that explorers mistook the river for a strait and called the land Canada. A London Standard anecdote adds a moral drift about money changing nothing as a poor couple inherits £20 and resolves to keep living as before.
A playful exchange contrasts loneliness and marriage as a risk from one cooking mishap to another. The Washington Star notes that universal peace is unlikely, and suggests marriage remains an enduring social constant.
The passage mixes gossipy lines from a boarding house to jokes about dull waiters and guide kissing, then shifts to a brief note on timber use and beer barrels. It includes a proverb on moderation, a line about debt and courtship, and a strange quip on the weight of a transgressor.
Notice offering payment of six dollars fifty cents per first class Mick ory timber card suitable for handles, 88 inches long, delivered at Factory. Also seeks a boiler and engine operator 12 to 16 HP to cut timber on contract. Dahlonega Handle Factory, Dahlonega, Georgia.
Ordinary G G Evans orders a levy of 72 cents on each hundred dollars of taxable property for 1906. Funds allocated to General County Bridge Finance Pauper Road and other local purposes totaling 72 cents per 100. Levy authorized September 8, 1906 by the Lumpkin County Ordinary.
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