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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1906
Page
1
An OCR fragment presents advertising rates for multiple publications. It lists prices such as 82,00 and 2.26 and mentions the Weekly Constitution and Sunny South. The legible parts imply subscription or ad costs and urge prompt action to set aside money.
A collection of humorous vignettes from New York life. Tales include a miller’s lawsuit ending with an apology, a minister and widow comic exchange about remarriage, and a humorous political quip about a candidate born between two rows of corn. A street beggar and a graft tale round out the humor, with a druggist coinage about a dimeful dose.
Practical kitchen and household hints cover starching silk, flour and water blends, cocoa preparation with eggs and vanilla, beating egg whites with salt, lemon juice for white frosting, flour on cakes to keep icing set, using hot water on fabrics, potato scrap for barns, and flour on kerosene flames for quick relief.
A field report notes potato buttons replacing horn or ivory in garments. Treated potatoes become nearly as hard as stone and are visually indistinguishable from bone or ivory, requiring expert inspection to tell them apart.
The article describes Cuban funeral customs with a large decorated hearse, mourners who are all men, and coffins carried in rented graves. It notes ostentatious porcelain flower decorations and graves leased to relatives who may have bones removed if rents lapse. A second item cites Leslie's Weekly on clergy children, stating counts of sons of ministers, lawyers, and doctors and claiming clerical homes yield more distinguished offspring.
A dated exhortation warns readers that liquor is the deadliest threat to a young man’s career, arguing addiction is nearly impossible to escape. It contrasts this with recoverable other temptations and reflects on humanity, neighborly love, and universal peace.
A pay wedding in Germany lets guests pay for feast costs, sometimes with 800 guests, and brides receive guests with a jeweled basin. A quack in Trenton harmed children with the Lorenz method, while the piece notes general calls for fair treatment and mourning attire.
Directory cites J. J. Kimsey as judge and W A Charters as solicitor general with terms set for Dawson Rabun Habersham Towns Union White Lumpkin Stephen counties. Dates include January July for halls. February August for Dawson Rabun. March September for Habersham Towns White. April October for Lumpkin Union. May and November for Stephen County. Behavioral note: no explicit outcomes.
County officers listed include G. G. Vans Ordinary D. L. Cook Clerk James M. Davis Sheriff EK J. Walden Tax Collector J M Calhoun Tax Receiver QO J Jarrara County Surveyor J A Hollifield Treasurer J M Ricketts Coroner.
City government listed with Mayor E. B. Vickery and Aldermen W. B. Gurley G. H. McGuire W. J. Hightower T. J. Smith W. S. Littlefield W. P. Price Jr. Wm. J. Worley serving as Clerk and Geo. W. Walker as Marshal in the official roster.
Baptist Church led by Pastor J B Ashmore holds Sunday services at 11 and 7 pm with a Thursday prayer meeting and a 9 o clock Sunday School. Methodist Church with Rev W R Foote offers Sunday services at 11 and 5 pm, Wednesday prayer meeting, and 3 o'clock Sunday School.
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