Directory City Government and Local Churches
A fragmented directory lists city officials and departments including mayor, clerk, tax collector, coroner, and policemen. It also shows county education figures, roads and revenues, notaries, and several church listings with pastors and service times across Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Church of God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.H. Jones
W. J. Hightower
County Board OF Education
Frank Parks
W.T. Dowdy
C.D. Pierce
D. W. Caldwell
KR. J. Hutcheson
Carl Shultz
John H. Billsree
WY. L. Ash
R. C. Meaders
T. F. Christian
Outsides Peace
Auraria
W. A. Hutcheson
J. P
Cane Créek
Luther Justus
J. P. Fred Ash
N. P. Crumby
L. B. Hatfield
N. P. Chestatee
J. M. Wilkins
N. P. Davis
W. M. Wehunty
B. H. Higgins
N.P. FR. Ayy
Neb C. ‘Lovelace
J. P. Frotow
Dav
Fen ioRreek
M. Oe Pet
Ain’s. Ford
J. M. "Poors
J.M. Calhoun
N. P. Foner
B. Ricketts
N.P
J. M. Duckett
Shea
Creeke
C. Burges
N. P
Young People
R. EE. Hamilton
Thanks for flowers and kindness after our loss
We wish to thank all who sent floral offerings and offered kindness after the death of our husband and father. Maus, I, Jackson and Children.
Crushing Retort Came to Him All Too Late
A fragment from Youth's Companion recounts Mr. Hf. At Vaehell in New Por st describing Anglian woodland life and wartime attitudes. An old man recalls London deportation and a grand march down Regency street, with a grim note on crows in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Porst
England
Vaehell
Southampton
Mr. Vachell
Apis
Regency Street
Electric Signs on Broadway Show 36000 Lamps in Use
Broadway displays glow with nearly 36000 incandescent lamps across five premier signs. Three announce products, one advertises tires, and a 19000 lamp chewing gum sign uses 890 kilowatts, a quarter of 1881 US lamp usage, yet emits twice the light.
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Broadway
New York
United States
Moison
The Sardine Cartoon Sparks Spectacular Pun Dialogue
A brief cartoon caption exchange features a sardine character remarking on its own misfortune as the oil joke lands, delivering a quick, witty visual gag. The setup emphasizes wordplay about wealth and peril in a seaside setting.
Doctor Hutchison Announces Gas Control Chemical
Dr Miller Reese Hutchison a naval advisory board member and former chief engineer at Edison laboratories says he has discovered a chemical mixed with gasoline that will neutralize carbon monoxide in exhaust. He claims one ounce per gallon will eliminate the poisonous gas reducing fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller Reese Hutchison
Naval Advisory Board
Hdison Laboratories
Birds and Beasts Foretell Weather in Sussex Lore
Sussex folk read signs from animals and inanimate signs to predict rain and harvest outcomes. Cows lying down, clear downs, creaking furniture, glow worms, frogs, and blackbirds signal rain or fair days. A sunset tint and soot in chimneys also mark the forecast.
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Sussex
Ms Farsera
St. Swithin’s
London Mail
Bird Sings Midnight Astonishing Cabrach Naturalist
A naturalist reports hearing a nightingale sing at the end of February in the Cabrach, an alpine area in the north of Scotland. The bird’s rare nocturnal song surprised observers as the night was unusually warm and near Bridgend in Lower Cabrach. The witness checked the time at 11 42 p.m., noting the altitude around 1 100 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Cabrach
Bridgend
Lower
England
Edinburgh Scotsman
Immigration in France Attracts Large Alien Labor Influx
The International Labour Office reports France as an immigration country with 262 877 alien workers arriving in 1923 and 59 951 leaving. Italians accounted for 103 012 arrivals, with Poles and Belgians next at 31 447 and 25 407. Industry absorbed 184 255 workers, agriculture 78 622, unskilled workers 48 376 in industry, 40 547 in building, and 31 040 in mining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Labor Office
France
Pretty Prairie Millinery Hat Tornado Parade
A Kansas gale swept through Pretty Prairie scattering toques bonnets and turbans from a millinery shop window. A woman's hat rode the zephyr six miles to a pasture where it was found the next morning badly battered.
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Kansas
Prairie
Potatoes Used Up But Recipe Lacks Age Details
A humorous exchange about a recipe for using old potatoes reveals the omission of how old the potatoes must be. Mrs Bing laments the lack of definite guidance while Mr Bing questions the term decency.
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Mrs. Bing
Mr. Bing
Bing
Fuzzy Wuzzy Turns Toward Peaceful Paths in Africa
Robert Williams, a colleague of Cecil Ishodes, reports at a London Colonial Institute meeting that Sudanese descendants of Fuzzy Wuzzy now study at Gordon College in Khartum and pursue engineering surveying agriculture cotton growing and blacksmithing. He says they may seek independence from Egypt and perhaps England as white labor is displaced in central Africa.
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Kitchener
Khartum
Rudyard Kipling
Uzzy-Waszy
Lyin
Robert Williams
Cecil Ishodes
Central Africa
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Colonial Institute
London
Williams
JiChartum
Gordon College
Sudan
Egypt
England
Africa
Would Exchange Goods for Something to Eat
An advertising notice from the Civil War era explains that a store seeks payment in Confederate money for due-bills owed in bacon pork corn wheat or other commodities. The text emphasizes urgency and willingness to exchange goods for edible provisions, reflecting wartime barter pressures.
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Prvatel
Tho & Oe
Eves
Tolstoy and Chekhov through Gorki's eyes
Maxim Gorki shared two portraits of Tolstoy and Chekhov from interviews. He said Tolstoy disregards useless topics, acts like a collector. Chekhov’s smile and near silent, spiritual laughter showed tenderness and a refined humor that avoids coarse anecdotes.
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Tolstoy
Thekoff
Maxim Gorki
Old Dutch Coins Sent to Smelting Plant in New Jersey
About 2383 tons of copper coins from the Dutch East Indies, many dated 1790, arrived in New York on their way to a New Jersey smelting plant. Worn smooth by circulation, the coins will be melted into nearly pure copper worth roughly $250 per ton. The Dutch government collected them a decade ago when old issues were recalled for replacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dutch East Indies
New York
New Jersey
Joseph Conrad
Hungary’s National Spirit in Scholarly Life and Beoethy
The passage assesses Hungarian intellectuals of the period, naming Julius Andrasay, Apponyi, Berzeviczy and Beoethy as pillars of a proud, national scholarly tradition. It notes Beoethy’s broad literary activity, his romantic idealism, and his role as guardian of ancient Hungarian traditions, contrasting him with reformers who lived at the turn of the Ninctosy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackevon Borothy
Caitury
Owhiel
Hungary
Count Julius Andrasay
Count Mhert Apponyi
Albert von Berzeviczy
Beoethy
Bedethy
Tipping Nuisance in Curious Seance Quip
A quirky exchange about tipping norms surfaces in a dialogue about a table tipping seance and a joking reference to tipping all legged items except furniture in a cabaret party setting.
Conserving Platinum From Placer Deposits
The article explains a method to recover fine platinum from placer deposits in southern Oregon. Water is stirred to keep the metal dust suspended, then runs over riffle tables to separate gold, followed by a coco mat riffle where platinum deposits and is finally collected by rinsing coco mats into tanks.
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Oregon
Slack coal to fuel up new products
A third of mined coal is slack powder with limited sales. New processes convert slack into valuable products including a ton yielding three gallons of gasoline, 15 gallons of fuel and lubricating oil, 6,000 cubic feet of gas, and 1,400 pounds of coke-like fuel.
Army considers vacuum groomer for horses and mules
The cavalry board recommends a vacuum cleaner to replace brushes and combs for grooming horses and mules citing time savings. Grooming time would drop from twenty four minutes to ten minutes per animal, a decision grounded in efficiency rather than safety.
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Curry
Cavalry Board of the Army
Announcements of Lumpkin County State Senate Candidates
Voters hear declarations from multiple Lumpkin County hopefuls about seeking seats in the Georgia State Senate and General Assembly. statements promise service, prior legislative work, and commitment to the county, with emphasis on Democratic primary dates in September 1924.
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Senate
State Senate
Lumpkin County
State Department
Onara R
Buprgre
J.F. Pauser
General Assembly of Georgia
W. P. Riper
Rember
HL. B. Smrvit
Lask
Georgia
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W.L. Ash
C. P. Rider
Jos. Townsend
J. W. Grindle
J. A. Ande
Trustees City SC
Baste
Juibrell, W . N. Fitts
Irson, Hool
Pruett
W. B. Townsend
Christian
M. Davis
WH. Peck
R. E. Baker
John Evans
C. C. Burns
Y. G. Abercrombie
W. J. Free
D. O. Johnson
Tles
Cans Creek
Robert Housers
G- H-Mcguire Jeweler
Dahlonega, GA
Burns
Maus,l. I
Jackson and Children
Dera
Dahlonega
M. Wenunr
Homer Head
Dahionega, Ga
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