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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1927
Page
1
A Berlin street poster promotes converting watches to a twenty four hour dial from 1 p m to midnight. Railways and the armed forces have adopted the clock to reduce timing errors, but the public resists saying 13 oclock or 23 oclock.
Abolitionist Wendell Phillips faced a hostile Boston audience as singing and shouting drowned his voice. He spoke only to reporters, then declared through the reporters’ pencils that he spoke to thirty millions. The audience quieted as they realized their minority status.
In Cairo a condemned boy named Abbas Kan awaits his sentence for murder while his father, also doomed under the death penalty, pleads in prison. The son, certain of acquittal, recalls a dream of riding a white horse with a broken black umbrella, but the appeal to Cassatu is too late.
Ivan Shapirov of Lahti Russia told census takers he was born in 1782 and that Napoleon's 1812 Moscow retreat marked the last time he got drunk. Now 145, he enjoys good health with his sixth wife aged 88.
On an unusually warm April day at Bear Pond camp Maine bathers swam in the icy water and then returned to shore for snowball battles as snow lingered along the shoreline and the temperature neared 80 degrees.
Hurry Call W W Doughty of Farmingdale Maine testified in a ten thousand dollar suit at Augusta. While speaking a big grass fire threatened his extensive holdings and court was adjourned to accommodate him on his farm.
A Greek doctor named T sinou proposes an electrical device that purportedly destroys influenza microbes in 15 minutes. The claim centers on a new apparatus said to attack the virus rapidly and prevent spread.
Forest management boosts timber yields as groves mature faster than in the wild. In western Oregon and Washington, a healthy Douglas fir stand under care can supply merchantable saw timber in about sixty years.
In South Dakota near Pierre, rabbit hunters employ a tactic inspired by Bed Time Tales. Kites mistaken for birds of prey draw cover, then become easy targets for the gunners, Capper's Weekly notes.
Women in England embrace soccer with growing enthusiasm at league games. They know the rules and plays as well as men, and they attend games despite blustery weather, forming a substantial presence among spectators.
Two year old Winifred Tierney of Lille France is described as the youngest child to speak four languages. She can answer questions in French English German and modern Greek.
About 600 housewives answer the editor of Woman's Home Companion inviting new uses for an electric iron. Suggestions range from frying an egg on the iron’s bottom to warming a bed with the iron. One reader burned a baby's coat propping up the iron. Another recalls a "warmest bed you ever saw" that would smell next time if asbestos sheets are used.
John Flynn who has been deaf and mute since a head wound in the World War regained his hearing after being kicked in the throat during a football match at Blackpool England. The restoration involved the auditory and vocal nerves responding again.
The Pathfinder Magazine reports many chamois in the Alps especially Valais canton were blinded by a filmy eye cover. Some animals fell from precipices while others wandered slowly on the snow. Doctors cannot explain the disease.
A French system enables night flyers to light distant beacons by radio. Airmen could use wireless signals to indicate their position and illuminate the ground for landing if needed.
George W. Snow bought two blocks in Chicago's townsite for 500 dollars in 1836 after hesitation. The Snow estate heirs recently sold a small slice of that parcel for 1.1 million, highlighting a remarkable gain.
A quip from The Outlook recalls a child’s view of diplomacy as the act of correcting a bigger boy when told something false, without using it. The remark frames diplomacy as causing trouble through truth telling in schoolyard dynamics.
A new crossbreed from Alberta blends turkey and chicken traits. The bird resembles a turkey in head and body yet is smaller with a chicken like comb and wattles, offering a potential price friendly alternative for holiday meals.
Pred Lemire, a Rochester New Hampshire musician, spent three months crafting a banjo measuring five feet four inches. He intended it to replace a bass fiddle in an orchestra. The instrument’s head was fashioned by cutting down a bass drum.
Over the last decade Detroit added 61 square miles to its limits. The expansion reflects a growing urban footprint and changes in municipal boundaries as the city incorporated surrounding areas.
Eight Opi Indians and two Navajos returned to Kaibeto Arizona after an eleven month journey to Australia and New Zealand. They aided in presenting The Vanishing American, led by Nassah the Owl, under Hugh D. Smith. They were honored in New Zealand by Māori hosts and visited the sacred meeting place. The group christened Australia Gwen Dbikeyah and Nassah was said to be struck by a Sydney woman. It was the first peaceful collaboration between Hopis and Navajos, covering about 7000 miles. After Hollywood a day then they headed to Arizona.
Manila residents tolerate 20 foot pythons living above ceilings as they prey on rats, while cobras lurk in the opera house. Snakes disturb audiences during performances, though locals remain distracted and uneasy about their presence.
Arthur Waley of the British Museum notes a 923 year old reference in Murasaki Shikibu's work. The text mentions kicking a ball, but he says the game differed significantly from modern football.
A massive eleven cords of spruce and fir, forty feet long and two and a half feet high, were pulled by horses owned by Harry Derry of Randolph Maine. Ice on the road formed tracks making the haul easier, and hay was spread on inclines to slow the load.
A two story home rises on a three foot eight inch wide lot at the corner of Melrose Avenue and One Hundred Sixty First Street in the Bronx. The figure of the lot shows remarkable narrowness with a depth of twenty two feet and the structure occupying the space between adjacent properties.
A Liberty survey shows the average number of presidential children is 3.76. President Tyler leads with 14 children from two marriages, while Washington Madison Jackson Polk Buchanan and Harding had none. Buchanan is described as a bachelor.
Local notice describes Blue and White Cafee offering good eats and prompt service with a full stock of school supplies candies cigars and cigarett es flash light supplies Kodak films and beverages. The proprietor G K Rider invites patrons to make the place their home calling it the coolest nicest place in town.
Real estate ad by Brooksurr Rearry Co promotes buying a summer home in Dahlonega. Various properties in and around the area are advertised as affordable or first class, with low prices and easy terms. The firm invites would be buyers to view the available properties.
Rush notice that H. Seeley, renowned rupture expert from Chicago and Philadelphia, will be at the Dixie Hunt Hotel in Gainesville on Wednesday August 24 from 9 AM to 5 PM. Seeley promises instant results without surgery and warns against unverified elastic trusses while noting verification by U.S. government authorities. Fraud warning cautions against imposters copying his ads.
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