03 Feb 1928
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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1928
Page
1
The Dahlonega Telephone Company denounces nonresident use of home phones and comparing it to theft. It urges fair payment for messages and stamps, offering a contrib to paupers needing business use, and warns against borrowed service as laundry cannot fix the debt.
The Republicans of Lumpkin county are to meet at the court house at 12 o clock Saturday February 4 1528 to select delegates to the State Convention and to handle other business that will come before it. Anperson, Chairman.
Washington reports Labrador could become a summer haven for yachtsmen and a source of wood pulp. The region offers rich forests and abundant water power, with growing pulp mills, coastal towns, Eskimo and Indian populations, and scenic fjords. Grand Falls on the Hamilton River towers near three times Niagara.
Smith interrupts as South purchases an $80 nonrunning old wreck. South explains the buy is to let his wife claim they own a car, avoiding further explanation about finances or upkeep.
Mrs. Alice B. Davis of Wewoka Oklahoma, a 75 year old former Seminole chief, acts as interpreter in land disputes and oil rights cases. Daughter of John F Brown and Lacey Red Beard, she has eleven children and twice served as chief in 1922 to sign deeds.
Dr. J A Back of the USDA bureau of entomology explains moth proofing varies in effectiveness. Spraying offers little protection. thorough wetting of the entire fabric is required. Manufacturers now use special machinery for immersion. A popular solution mixes 97 percent water with 8 percent sodium aluminum silicon anopide and commands high prices under a copyright. New compounds include alkaloids related to quinine.
The Griffin Inn at Whetstone preserves a stone said to have sharpened Edward IV s swords before the 1471 Battle of Barnet. The inn, famed for George Morland who painted a sign to settle a bill, lost in a snowstorm about 80 years ago.
An international team reports a stone with a deer drawing and six engraved Glozel characters suggesting a 10 000 year old alphabet near Glozel Vichy France. controversy over authenticity arose after Louvre curator Jene Dussaud alleged modern planting of artifacts.
The article argues sawdust can be reused annually for ice packing. It notes discoloration with age but no dirt contamination. Sawdust decays slowly and remains cold and wet, conditions unfavorable to wood destroying fungi, sustaining its usefulness.
The list highlights renowned structures across eras and regions including the Parthenon in Athens the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus the Taj Mahal Notre Dame Milan Cologne Westminster Abbey the Dome of St Joan the Divine in New York Woolworth Building and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D C.
Geneva dispatch reports the former German Kaiser bought two small islands in Lake Maggiore opposite Locarno facing Switzerland. One island will be named Island of the World’s Peace and the ex Kaiser plans a winter residence. Purchase price about £14000, arranged by Baron Von der Rheldt.
A poor Odense boy known as the ugly duckling became a famed fairy tale author. He failed at school and was deemed odd but attracted royal support and later traveled. Though aiming for dramas and novels he found success in simple stories, earning world renown.
A Baltimore Evening Sun correspondent reports on Italian eyewear history from a Rome university exhibit. Professor Albertotti of Padua argues Venice first made spectacles, citing 1201 Venice codex penalties for fake glass and a Treviso portrait of Cardinal Hugh wearing spectacles.
A Liberty article by Rheta Childe Dory argues a wife of superior birth or tradition can elevate the marriage and children, while an inferior wife drags the husband down. It cites Robert Louis Stevenson on missionaries in the South Seas, noting men grow careless while women largely keep to home standards.
In a field Barrie sits writing when a lamb strays, returns to its mother three times, and is led back by Barrie. After several similar incidents, the lambs begin seeking Barrie to locate their mothers. Jerome K Jerome recounts in My Life and Times that lambs show surprising intelligence.
A summary notes that a list of 50 high frequency words includes the, and, of, to, I, a, In, that, you, for, it, was. The first dozen dominate about 80 percent of average text, while the full list spans from fifty to one hundred in ordinary writing with very as the only multisyllabic term.
The term paper shell once described pecans with very thin shells that split easily when two nuts are crushed in one hand. It has, in recent years, come to include all cultivated varieties, many with shells as hard as wild nuts. Properly, paper shell did not refer to a specific variety.
The Lumpkin County sheriff will sell at the Dahlonega court house on the first Tuesday in February 1928 the property of Howard Adcock. It includes all of lot 473 in the 2nd District 1st Section and 10 acres in the southwest of lot 115, as per Deed Book D-1. Proceeds go to satisfy a fi fa in favor of L. G. Hardeman.
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