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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1928
Page
3
Dahlonega reflects on finances, church joins, power plans and local incidents. Mentions Eloushky Bro. ready to open, Margret Menders teaching in Dalton, county roads and tax issues, drugstores, moonshine, school enrollment, safety and traffic, and various community updates including North Georgia Electric & Power Co plans.
A German firm in Idar announces it has received from King Amanullah a monopoly for importing Afghan lapis lazuli. The stone is described as exceptionally pure, rivaling the best from Afghanistan. Idar, on the River Nahe, has a local industry in semi-precious stones.
A celebrated composer visiting Stratford-on-Avon pauses a guide’s Old-world cottage talk and asks who Shakespeare was. The friend is stunned and recalls the composer’s earlier operatic success "Romeo and Juliet" set to music, prompting a quip about the librettist.
The Perfect Picnicker observed a teamster at midday with a plain earth table and a battered menu. He ate bully beef from a tin, tomato sauce, and bread torn by hand, washed down with cold water, illustrating plain, frugal living. The Sydney Bulletin notes the scene.
Fragmentary text describes rivers rising in Atherta and flowing through fise kétchewar and Monilwha, with references to Winnipes and Sashateligwin and Taciins. Mentions Minnedosa river area and tributaries to Beyer bye er Ontutho in Maniiohy. No coherent events or dates emerge.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls a family gathering at bedtime with a small boy and a hostess. The boy answers a question about his father after a good dinner, and a speaker notes the moment in a reflective mood.
Betty boasts about adding numbers but misreads the problem and counts her existing rabbit as part of the totals. The uncle explains the proper sum while correcting the phrasing of morning and afternoon additions.
A quirky Sydney display features a mobile man catching flies as a tiny rodent darts from a hiding place in a corner and leaps onto a window ledge. The scene attracts a large crowd and demonstrates a novel window display method.
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