Public sale of Lumpkin county land to secure debt
Bank of Dahlonega will sell at public outcry the 170 acre contiguous tract in Lumpkin county part of lots 1128 1129 103 and 1130 described with Yahoola creek Black Mountain Road and other boundaries to satisfy a note of 238 18 due November 1 1914 held by the bank The water power and mineral rights in certain lots are excluded Sale date is the first Tuesday in January 1922 between legal hours at the county courthouse with JT P Jackson signing for the bank
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Georgia
Lunepkin County
Bank of
Lumpkin County
Yahoola Creek
Yahoola
Mountain Public Road
M. R. Bryan
Bank of Dahlonega
Notice to teachers for county examination in Dahlonega
In the Dahlonega courthouse office a special examination for teachers without a general elementary license will be held on December 6, 1921. Examinations begin at 8 30 A M to aid those who hoped to teach in the county but failed last August or earlier.
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Dahlonega
Dee
Sith
UO. Sutnrz
Notice of Lumpkin County Teachers Election
By order of the Lumpkin county Board of Education each school district must hold a trustees election on Saturday December 24 1921 from 10 A M to 12 M. Managers to report times elected to County Superintendent. Haci District to fill all vacancies with the described term lengths. If three vacancies exist assign terms of one year two years and three years. If two vacancies elect one three year term and the other per overage rules.
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Board of Education of
Lumpkin County
Monarch's Arabian Stallion Sent to National Museum
The Prince of Wales sent the purebred Arabian stallion Dwarka to the South Kensington Natural History Museum to symbolize the origins of the modern thoroughbred. Dwarka, nearly thirty, originated in Dartmoor and had spent 22 years in Britain. The Arabian breed, traceable to three foundational stallions, is noted for power and endurance, with famous descendants like Eclipse and Matchem.
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Prince of Wales
South Kensington
Rawal Pindi
Fingland
Arabia
Asia Minor
James I
Byverly Turk
Godolphin
Herod
Eclipse
Dawes on Marriages and Dress Sparks Warmer Talk
Gen Charles C Dawes notes more marriages now than in the past attributing to dresses and female camaraderie. An elderly wife quips about young girls not kissing until engagement and remarking she never got engaged herself. A Virginia professor praises a Kentucky coffee tree seed as a fly poison and memorial plant.
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Charles C. Dawes
Dawes
Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
George S. Holmes
University of Virginia
Holmes
Thorough Answer to Approval Question Sparks Senate Irony
A dialogue shows Senator Sorgum defending approval while noting that thorough understanding of every approved item would limit political work. The exchange highlights tension between consent and scrutiny in legislative processes.
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Sorghum
Consistency Theme Explored in Local Dialogue
In a short exchange from the Youngstown Telegram a mentor explains consistency as “fitness of things.” The dialogue uses a freckle faced girl in a polka dot dress leading a coach dog to illustrate the idea, highlighting a didactic, period voice.
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Youngstown Telegram
Parachutist Flies Four and Three Fifths Miles to Land
An unusual adventure. the chap leaped miles in a parachute risking life to return to earth. The anecdote follows after reading today’s headlines and reflects on the attraction of daring feats.
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Earth
Arthur H. Fol
Leslie
Forgiveness Prayer From Indianapolis News Verse
A brief poetic prayer asks for forgiveness for worldly faults and hidden sins. The verse urges restraint from idle thoughts and seeks guidance to live rightly, with lines attributed to C Maude Battersby in the Indianapolis News.
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C. Maude Battersby
Indianapolis News
Fish Ring For Their Meals
A method to tame sunfish along a lake edge using daily worm bait and a tree mounted bell switch. Attach a brass lever switch wired to a bell with dry cells to detect a fish pulling the bait, triggering the bell and drawing fish to feed regularly.
Novel dog racing device promises excitement for field
A Chicago man Owen P. Smith proposes a mechanical rabbit on a small rail car to lure dogs around an oval track. The rabbit runs ahead of the fastest pursuers while a finish wire declares the winner as the car is switched to a side track and stored for next races.
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Owen P. Smith
Chicago
Milwaukee Sentinel
Pigeon Flies With Locomotive Between Rail Lines
A pigeon acts as a winged escort for trains between Morecambe and Hillfield in Leeds. It flies near the chimney to dodge smoke, rises for bridges, never goes beneath them, circles at stations, alights near the engine, and resumes flight after the whistle. The bird avoids food and returns home each night.
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Morecambe
Hillfield
Leeds
England
Alaska Bald Eagles Vanishing Amid Rising Kill Rates
John B. Traitor of Sitka warns in Washington that Alaska may lose its bald eagles within a short period as bounty program killings continue. He cites summer hunts and a reported 15,000 birds killed, noting Alaska’s largest eagles originate there and risk extinction if trends persist.
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Alaska
John B. Traintor
Sitka
Washington
Northwest
Egyptians First to Make Paper From Papyrus Reed
The ancient Egyptians produced early paper from papyrus reeds, slicing and layering the plant to form sheets. Thin layers were pressed and dried to create a writable material, giving rise to the word paper.
Twin Stomachs Found in Eight-Year-Old Girl
Doctors discovered a second stomach inside an eight-year-old girl in Bristol Wisconsin after a year of stomach aches. The extra digestive organ was removed in an operation and the patient is recovering at home.
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Bristol
Wis
Boys Will Be Boys Poem Reflects Maternal Creed
A New York Sun poem recalls a mother who excuses rough boyish acts with the phrase boys will be boys. She forgives bruises and broken windows, tends to injuries with kisses, and sustains her cheerful creed as her son grows from child to middle age, still embodying that spirit.
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H. Rutherford, Jr
New York Sun
Canned dogs guard fruit on Washington orchard
Ed ward Delle rigs a beehive with an electric record player to play barking dogs as police protection for his orchard and vineyard along Sunset highway in Zillah Yakima county. Tourists driving by at dusk often steal fruit but since installing the canine racket losses stopped and neighbors hear the dogs a mile away.
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Edward Delle
Zillah
Washington
Eyvery
Delle
Yakima
Twice Hooked Same Fish in Summer Tale
An Alberta reader recalls two catches on Vancouver Island. First a large spring salmon breaks the line with a homemade spoon lure in its mouth. A month later a flatfish yields after a similar strike, and the same spoon is found in its mouth, proving the fish did not travel far in summer.
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Alberta
Vancouver Island
Sloops Sails Turn to Advertising Boards
Fishermen around Long Island Sound monetize sails as moving billboards. A pioneering skipper rented a great white sheet that circled the sound drawing hundreds of eyes from shore and on boats. Cottage residents along the shore can view ads of breakfast foods drifting by each day.
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Long Island Sound
New York
Lightning Strike Hits Tribe at Big Cove Pine
During a heavy storm at Big Cove near Rieli bucto New Brunswick a group of Indians sought shelter under a pine tree. A bolt of lightning struck the tree splitting it injuring several people and burning hair on one victim. the injured man recovered enough to work the same day.
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Big Cove
Rielibucto
N. B
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