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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
4
William L Bodine shared a humorous courtroom story about a colored woman who, after five years without her first husband, married a second husband at home. She used her old marriage certificate, scratched out the first husband's name, and wrote in the second, prompting judge Goodnow to question the legality.
A comic dialogue features the Lion asking what ails him while noting hair wet, and the Snake answering that he swallowed a porcupine, delivering a humorous exchange in a vintage cartoon style.
The Polaris under Charles Francis Hall reached the Arctic frontier before ice forced a months long halt. Nineteen crew and Eskimos abandoned the leaking ship and camped on a breaking floe, drifted southward through a savage gale, but all were saved. Eskimo Hannah bore a girl during the ordeal.
An exchange quotes a man apologizing for calling another a fool and recalling a saying that truth should not always be spoken. The dialogue pivots on scripture and a common admonition about restraint in speech.
A collector named Howell He remains under medical supervision as Powell notes he is simply pursuing a sequence of surgical operations. No other details are provided about his condition or motivations.
Governor Joseph M. Brown proclaims that the proposed amendment requiring tax returns will be voted on at the general election on October 2, 1912. Voters will see on the ballots the words For amendment to Constitution requiring tax returns or Against amendment to Constitution requiring tax returns.
The proclamation submits a proposed constitutional amendment for Georgia voters at the October 2, 1912 general election. It would require taxpayers to file returns with the Comptroller General by March 1 and pay taxes by September 1, with the General Assembly empowered to enforce and modify related laws.
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