City Government Officers and Local Tax Notices
A fragmentary county notice lists municipal officers and departments for Lumpkin County Georgia. It includes mentions of city and county officials, roads and revenues, schools, notary peace officers, and a list of justice precinct PPs. The document also records multiple property levies and foreclosures scheduled for sale before the Lumpkin County courthouse on the first Tuesday in September 1921, including land lots 785 and 784 and a 1920 Ford roadster.
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GG. Evans
Free
Auraria
W. A. Hutcheson
Cane Creek
C. CU. Smith
J.P. Crumby
L. B. Hatfield
Chestatee
J. M. Wilkins
N. P. Pargis
B.H. Higgins
N. P
W.M. Wehunt
J. P
H. C. Burges
N. P. Wahoohoo
J. A. Abercrombie
J. P. Bunyan Pierce
N. P. Wahoola
J. GC. Jarrard
Georgia
Lumpkin County
Said
Tom Wit
John A. Crane
Justices Court
G. M
W.H. Satterfield
Levy
Clifford
Dillard Reese
Park Street
R. M. Bryson
B A. Craig
W. J. Jarrard
D. Jarrard
W. Pc
Head
Wanted agents to sell Watkins products in city trade
Trade offer from the J. R. Watkins Co inviting agents to handle city trade in Dahlonega and other vacant cities. Promote retailing Cocoanut Oil Shampoo Garda Face Powder and over 137 products with free sample and full particulars. Send inquiries to 67 Memphis Tennessee.
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Dahlonega
J. R. Watkins
Watkins
J. R. Watkins Co
Memphis
Tenn
Weds Girl Picked for Him Among Gypsies
The article describes gypsy marriage customs where a mother selects a bride for her son around age nineteen, negotiating a price with the bride’s parents. The groom is then married by gypsy law and his parents typically set him up in a livelihood after the match.
Java Cannon Wish Charm Draws Multinational Pilgrims
A London Morning Post correspondent reports near Batavia Java a centuries old cannon half buried in earth draws a procession of Javanese Malays and others who circle it three times place lanterns and silently wish. Believers say the cannon is part of a missing pair and reuniting them would alter the nation's future.
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London Morning Post
Batavia
Java
Fort McHenry Among Forts Recommended for Abandonment
The secretary of war urged abandoning nearly a dozen old forts including four in Maryland. Fort McHenry, named for James McHenry, originated as a 1776 water battery, later became an enclosed bastioned fort, and withstood a two day bombardment in 1814.
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Maryland
Fort
Great Blow to Profession Editor Reflects on Rail Pass Days
An editor laments the loss of the era when journalists traveled nationwide on railroad passes. He sighs that cultivating ties with railroad officials in the passenger traffic department is no longer worthwhile.
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Halcyon
Birmingham Age- Herald
Hollow concrete posts to aid mine timbers devised
A Belgian engineer has devised hollow reinforced concrete columns as new mine timbers. They are designed to allow settlement if the support is overburdened and are filled with sand or a similarly compacted material to transmit the load.
Illustrated home songs via phonograph with illustrated disk views
A Popular Mechanics feature explains simple home entertainment using flat disk records. An opaque picture book racks in front of the phonograph motor and is illuminated to project images onto a screen. A light wire frame drops each page in time with the music as the reproducer arm moves.
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Popular Mechanics
Mary Ellen Hosts Birthday Party for Orphan Girls
A five year old girl from Indianapolis hosts a party for five orphanage guests and extends the idea by planning annual gatherings matching her grandfather’s age. The family considers continuing the charitable tradition.
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Mary Ellen
Indianapolis News
Submarine Design Limits Surface Fighting Power
Admiral Sir H Bacon notes that subs operating below water lose surface fighting efficiency, with subs of any size scoring about 15 percent of surface vessels. Sir George Owens Thurston of Vickers provides figures showing a 5400 ton sub at 30 knots could carry only one 5.5 inch gun and one 3 inch gun.
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H. Bacon
George Owens Thurston
Vickers, Ltd
Quiet evening after golf quarrel in Flatbush and Bensonhurst
Mrs Flatbush recalls her husband being very patient at home after a day on the links. Mrs Bensonhurst adds that the husband returned calm and good natured, joking that his temper might have flared on the golf course.
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Yonkeers Statesman
Colonel comments on suffragist war remark
Col Bailey echoes a London suffragist claim that only women can keep men out of war. He uses a fowl analogy saying roosters become friendly when housed, but a single brown hen provokes conflict, illustrating his view on human nature.
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London
Col. Bailey
Atlanta Constitution
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Trusters City School
Dlead Becretary & Trens
Aviad
Brooksher
BOG, Meadors
County Care
Paterns
Ls Townsend Clark Superioe
Christian Sueens
Fsa
M. Davis Laye Galfootor
Porter van Ruceiver J. HW
Peck Carnes
As Cer Murveyor
John Evans
Sheat
J. R. Vigorius
Winona
McGuire Jeweler
Datlonega
Moore & Marlys
Historical American Fort
P. A
Prince Albert
Pringe Albert
Prince Albert Ta
Dringe Albert
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Vineton -Salem
Firestone
H. Head and Dahlonega Mlotor Co
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