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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1926
Page
1
A Chicago Daily News correspondent recalls a Macedonian wedding where the bride and groom are welcomed with bread and salt, men and women celebrate in separate rooms, and the couple are guarded by relatives. The next day they ride to the groom’s home as the trousseau is shown. wine and music echo long into the celebration.
Miss Frances M. Fernald, translator in the Interior department bureau of education in Washington, commands thirty two languages and dialects including Persian Chinese Japanese Arabic and Russian. She advocates Esperanto and even traded French lessons with Prof A Christen for his book on Esperanto. She studies constantly and uses transit commute time to practice.
The Canadian Department of Agriculture announced that the northern limit of agriculture in western Canada has moved back 60 to 15 miles, creating a vast new semi wooded expanse. The Winnipeg Free Press predicts a new homestead region and expanding mixed farming opportunities across this added area.
The British meteorological office notes at least 100 lightning flashes per second worldwide year round and about 16 million thunderstorms annually. It estimates that in a single second more energy is released from clouds than global water power stations generate in six months.
In a playful exchange a first noble lady urges to forget the prince and notes many more big fish in the sea. The second replies that those fish are not Wales, swapping flirtatious banter over royal matchups.
Melen A. Caldwell and Anna May Wright are likely the only women in the United States who run rat extermination businesses. The Virginia natives have toured 49 states using scientific methods to remove rodent infestations.
A Swedish engineer pioneers a high vacuum method to season green birch, spruce, pine, and oak in 20 to 40 hours. Planks are placed on sliding rollers in airtight chambers, heated by steam, then vacuum dried to 99.9 percent, reducing cracks warps and blue spots.
The Holland tunnels under the Hudson linking New York City and New Jersey are nearing completion. When opened they will host the world’s largest electric ventilating system with 84 motors to purge poisonous car vapors and supply fresh air through the mile and a half of twin tunnels.
An Indianapolis News item recounts Uncle John, a rifle hand who mocks shotguns yet boasts of shooting at two hundred yards. He says he hit the target but strained the gun, leaving the group amused by conditional success in a hunting tale set around a grocery store gathering.
A student denies the paper's claim that college boys spend most of their time gambling, insisting many spend significant time at the shows. The exchange highlights tensions over student activities and perceptions of college life.
A middle aged bachelor dining with a ventriloquist friend heard the room companion, a young actress on the same bill, tell him to stop holding her hand and to see him after the show. The victim, startled, did not realize the joke at first and friends could not confirm if he waited at the stage door after the performance.
Eskimos became the first to ship as sailors on the schooner Jean Regillon in northern Canadian waters last summer. They cruised with the vessel to fur ports and plan to return home in spring. The Halifax trip marked their first time outside the frigid zone. the captain credited four Eskimos signing on as key to meeting schedule.
Carnegie Tech adds a professorship and two $500 scholarships in plumbing heating and ventilating. Dr Thomas B Baker president hopes higher standards of living follow. Scholarships available to Carnegie Tech students. First from the National Association of After Plumbers and Women's Auxiliary.
Hustlers can earn 50 to 100 dollars weekly selling Whitmer’s guaranteed line of toilet articles and medicines. Lumpkin County is open for you with a team or car. No experience needed. Sales training provided. Write THE H. O. WHITMER COMPANY Dept 23 Columbus Indiana for full information.
J W Boyp administrator announces a sale at the Tate House beginning at 10 o'clock on the 10th inst. to auction the entire personal property of the J K Tate estate to the highest bidder. Sale continues daily until all items are disposed of.
An electrical measuring instrument a C voltmeter in a wooden case about three by two inches deep. It belonged to Mr. George W. Tonson. Information leading to its recovery will be appreciated and rewarded. Send information to Mrs Esther M Tonson 170 EB 17th St Brooklyn NY or Capt Garland Peyton Dablonega Ga.
W B Townsend Ordinary notifies next of kin and interested parties that B F Anderson applies for permanent letters of administration on the estate of Margaret Peggy Magness deceased. Hearing set at regular May Term 1925 of the Court of Ordinary of Lampkin County. notice dated May 5 1926.
In Dahlonega Lumpkin County Georgia the sheriff will sell at public outcry for cash on the first Tuesday in May 1926 during legal hours. The property is Lot 188 in the 11th District and 1st Section of the original Hall now Lumpkin County described in deeds to John Sullens from James M Adams Mrs M M Findley W C Roark George Brown Nancy Lone German and Taminther Sullens recorded in Lumpkin County Superior Court. Also at the same time and place one John Deer Wagon and one set of one horse harness levied on as property of L J Garrett to satisfy fi fa in favor of A W Bell. Sheriff M Hovsney signed April 9 1926 and March 22 1926.
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