A wedding present that didn't go to the married couple is lighting the' streets of Gourgenay, a little town in Auvergne, south-east of Paris; It is an electric street lighting system given by Dr. Adolphe Javal, when. his. daughter, Sabine, was married recently. The originality of the gift was heightened by the strings attached to-it. Knowing the ways of officials, Dr. Javal made it a condition that there should be no commission appointed to investigate the matter, that no officials, governmental or local, should interfere in any way and that work should be started, in a-'week after the offer was made. Consequently, the town was lighted by electricity within two weeks.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 22
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111Untitled Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 22
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