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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1919
Page
1
A Winchester county clerk encounters a couple who believe they are married after showing a license from his office. The envelope prompts the clerk to ask who wed them, revealing the misperception. A justice of the peace then solemnizes the ceremony.
Smithsonian officials in Washington classify two grizzly skulls from Alum Rock and Mount Hamilton foothills as a distinct extinct species. Dr. C Hart Merriman reports the skulls, taken over fifty years ago by pioneer Clark Hubbard, prove a unique lineage not yet cataloged among the 88 existing species and subspecies.
Edward R. Hewitt of New York operates a New Jersey estate and once dyed White Leghorn wings to bright colors creating the so called Tasmanian Chromokipkips. He claimed eggs could fetch 50 dollars a dozen and received many inquiries with payments before the raising method was explained.
The Liverpool Post notes a nineteen year old Lloye George visiting London for the first time. He wrote home describing a sense of awe and ambition, comparing the assembly he saw to William the Conqueror surveying England. He ends with a reflection on vanity.
Doctor Rosenthal reports in Presse Medicale Paris that intravenous injections of strong saccharose solution produced tonic effects in numerous tuberculosis cases. The procedure raised blood pressure increased body weight and favored tuberculous lesions, attributed to enhanced liver function.
The Federal Reserve Board in its July bulletin warns of higher prices and tighter supplies if foreign purchases continue. It says the war export boom ended, urging exports financed by savings, not banks, to avoid inflation. It notes a probable rapid European recovery and stresses cautious, timely financing of foreign demand to protect U S markets.
The so called Crazy House in Salem Indiana has been demolished by its owners who feared injury from its weakened flood damaged structure. The building’s twisted walls and uneven floors made visitors dizzy and seasick as they toured the interior.
In 1882 a landslide in the Sunda pass of the Himalayas revealed a rich sapphire deposit yielding many fine gems. Apart from this, the leading source of such sapphires lies in a district in Ceylon renowned for gem stones.
National Crop Improvement Service urges farmers to start raising purebred hogs and pet breeding stock. Buying a purebred sow or gilt pays off with two litters per year and higher sale value for registered stock. Curing meat at home, making pork sausage, and learning to preserve hams meet household needs and neighbor demand. Hog production turns pasture and grain into meat efficiently. start now and involve the youth.
The government weighs a new dominion coat of arms representing all nine provinces. The current arms cover Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick from 1858. Since then Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta joined the federation. A United design will be approved by a committee, registered with the Royal College of Heralds, and a royal warrant issued.
The piece argues adopting two old slogans about order which, if displayed clearly, can benefit readers for years once current bright posters are removed.
A distinguished chemist notes that waste can be transformed into useful products. He cites how tender sentiments once praised the practical value of repurposing with inventive examples. The talk highlights the economic wealth created by adapting waste in daily life.
A Boeston Transcript item quotes a speaker claiming enemies prove a man’s worth as a live fighter. He notes enemies induce effort, saying a live man can swim against the current while a corpse offers no resistance. He ends with “God bless our enemies.”
In 1917, submarine threats and fleet expansion spurred rapid fitting of hundreds of British and American double bottoms as auxiliary cargo for fuel oil, a wartime measure that also taught marine engineers lessons for future oil-burning ship design.
A sailor complained to the British Admiralty that his ship was dazzle-painted like a parrot or a haystack. The official reply joked that they want the stern to appear where the head should be, not to resemble the two comparisons.
Naval authorities warn it will take years to clear European waters of floating mines. Allied trawlers destroyed many German mines found moored by ropes. As ropes rotted the mines detached from their anchors and drifted into main steam lanes.
Worth County schools funded by selling pigs used to finance sanitary privies, boosting health. the plan tied the farm demonstration agent the Board of Health, the Board of Education and local officials in a cooperative effort. The effort aims to curb typhoid fever dysentery and hookworm through better facilities and hygiene.
A Georgia editorial argues for a self-sustaining reformatory to house feeble minded and infected women. It calls for removing dangerous prostitutes from society, funding a farm and factory to produce clothing for state dependents, eight-hour labor, comprehensive medical care, and rehabilitation.
The excerpt explains that a whale’s throat is very small relative to its body while its head makes up about a quarter to a third of the length. It notes the mouth measures 15 to 20 feet long and six to eight feet wide, with a gullet opening roughly the size of a human fist.
A Carlyle quote on taste as a general susceptibility to truth and reverence for beauty, order, and goodness wherever seen, emphasizing discernment, love, and the heart to value all worthy forms and accomplishments.
The article profiles Glenn Hammond Curtiss of Rochester New York famed as the king of the air. It traces his youth love of mechanics, his first international air championship in 1900 at Reims, and his 159 mile Albany to New York flight in 1910. It notes his shift to airplane building and his extensive royalties on U S and European aircraft.
An elderly farmer agrees to marry a quiet deaf groom under a ruse by a sharp elderly bride. The woman mumbles she will charge the old husband for the wedding as he pays five dollars. The pastor completes the ceremony while the groom remains unaware of the plot.
Popular Mechanics highlights a steel shafted golf club that mimics wood flexibility. The hollow tapering shaft is smaller in diameter than hickory and reduces air resistance, claiming to increase driving power.
In a brief exchange, Mr. Rafferty scolds Mr. Dolan for lacking music lessons. Dolan asks if lessons would improve his singing, and Rafferty replies that music study might refine taste and prevent further ill advised singing attempts.
Research summarized from Ellsworth Huntington in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows the lowest death rate in spring and autumn around 64 degrees. Factory and outdoor work across the U S. peak at 62 to 63 degrees in air temperature. Muscle strength in children and workers, measured daily, is greatest when the thermometer reads 60 to 65 Fahrenheit.
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