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Johnny Vardeman: Dawsonville paper lobbied to lure state capital north
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Johnny Vardeman
Johnny Vardeman
Published: Apr 8, 2018, 4:00 AM
Maude Howard Garrett and her husband owned the Dawson County Advertiser in the 1940s. They were a colorful team who struggled to put out a weekly newspaper that was only four pages most weeks. That was when Dawson County was still a mostly rural county, the county seat Dawsonville a tiny town, its courthouse in the middle of it and few businesses on the public square.
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Column: FDR and the South helped each other out
Ronda Rich
Ronda Rich
Ronda Rich
For The Times
Published: Apr 8, 2025, 10:33 PM
Most admire Franklin D. Roosevelt, a crafty, pleasant, get-it-done type of President. He had been raised as an only child to his mother and father, though he had step-siblings. He was tremendously spoiled, but not in the way that turned him mean.
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