Local Directory of City County Officials and Church Listings
Directory lists city government officials aldermen mayor and city marshal, county officers including sheriff tax collector and coroner, boards of education, road duties, notaries, and multiple church pastors with service times. It provides names for officials across counties and towns and notes religious service schedules.
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Wiley, Aws
Cantrell
W. P. P. Rider
A. R. Ray
J. W. Grindle
Q. N. Fitts
W. M. Rice
Trustees City School
Awe Caine
John H. Moore
J. M. Brooksher
J.P. Wruett
Cochran Estate Farm Divided for Private Sale
Executors H B Cochran and G W Walden announce the division of the 578 acre Cochran old home place into two farms for private sale. Interested parties should contact the executors.
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Geo. W. Cochran
H. B. Cochran
G. W. Walden
Notice of discharge in Lumpkin County estate
J. M. Wilkins administrator of the estate of John Ravan deceased has applied to the Ordinary for a discharge. All persons concerned must file objections on or before the first Monday in March next why the discharge should not be granted. February 2, 1925. W. B. Townsend Ordinary.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
J. M. Wilkins
John Ravan
W.B. Townsend
Fitts & Sons Advertise Dahlonega Nursery Stock
Local firm Fitts and Sons of Dahlonega Georgia advertise a long established county presence selling thousands of high quality trees. They emphasize a large variety and reasonable prices and invite calls or written inquiries.
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Fitts & Sons
Dahlonega
Sheriff Sale Notice in Lumpkin County
Will be sold before the courthouse door in Dahlonega on the first Tuesday in March. A one third undivided interest in a portable boiler and engine and a Gainesville Saw Mill No 20 with 48 inch circle saw are levied as the property of F O Thurmond and F P Thurmond to satisfy a fi a in favor of F G Jonestand from the City Court of Cleveland. Heavy property will be delivered at Chestatee District. Levied January 30 1925 by W M Hovstey Sheriff.
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Chestatee
G. M
Lumpkin County
Afi
F. G
W. M. Hovstey
Catarrh and Deafness Help Ad Claims By Cheney Co
An advertisement claims Ball's Catarrh Medicine cures deafness caused by nasal inflammation. It says the mucous lining of the eustachian tube becomes inflamed and hearing loss may be permanent if untreated. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by BS Cheney & Co in Ohio.
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Ball
Cheney & Co
Ohio
Work of Pollination Left to Hungry Bees
The article explains lady's slippers wild orchids rely on bees for cross pollination. Bees enter through a lip gateway, feed inside, and exit via a narrow path carrying pollen to other blossoms. This elaborate mechanism minimizes self pollination and ensures cross fertilization.
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Nature Magazine of
Washington
Petrified Wood From Arizona Now Available
Petrified wood in the three forests of the Petrified Forest National Monument in Arizona is abundant with trunks over 100 feet long. Most wood is in short fragments along roads. collecting is forbidden to preserve the site. Colleges and museums nationwide may apply to the National Park Service for specimens.
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Petrified Forest National Monument
Arizona
Monument
United States
National Park Service
Department of the Interior
Convention Expenses and Delegate Costs
The nominating conventions cover general expenses from the party treasury funded by campaign contributions. Businesses and groups donate to lure the convention to their city. Nominees are not required to pay but may donate to the campaign fund. Delegates pay their own way. Oregon and Minnesota once funded delegates but stopped.
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Oregon
Minnesota
Pathfinder Magazine
Ireland Seeks New National Anthem for Free State
Ireland, famed for bewitching melodies, plans a national anthem as a free state. A competition is expected to determine the tune. The note recalls that Norway’s anthem was composed to order by Bjornson, and mentions the Portuguese anthem linked to Dom Pedro of Brazil.
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Ireland
Europe
Bjornson
Dom Pedro
Brazil
Growth of Physical Training Education Since 1880s
The United States Bureau of Education notes a shift from two to over a dozen specialized schools for prospective physical training teachers. Currently fifty-five colleges and universities offer degree programs in this subject, reflecting expanded formal training nationwide.
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United States Bureau of Education
Bride Reveals Surprising Shyness About Age
A brief motherly note mentions a bride who was notably shy about her age, describing her demeanor as very shy and reserved when questioned. The source focuses on the social quirk rather than any formal ceremony details.
Carbon Black Industry Production Surges in 1923
The 1923 U S carbon black output reached 138,262,648 pounds, up 104 percent from 1922, driven by rubber demand. Producers rose from 26 to 47 and plants from 43 to 69, but late 1923 saw overproduction with stocks swelling from 2,434,547 to 38,320,614 pounds.
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United States
Department of the Interior
Geological Survey
Iowa Homestead
Close Shave Shuttle Rescue Under Subway Car
Firemen, police and ambulances raced to an Interborough subway incident in New York City when two men were trapped under a car after it moved. The pair later crawled out from under the station platform saying one dozed and edged onto the tracks, the other jumped after him and shoved him under the platform just in time.
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Interborough
New York City
Take Louise? Jones Trip Plans Meet Hated Name
Jones and his wife plan a vacation through northwestern Canada with a stop at a place called Louise. Mrs. Jones resents the name Louise Brown and refuses to go to any place named Louise, causing a friction in their travel talk.
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Jones
Canada
Take Louise
Mrs. Jones
Louise Brown
Louise
Wide Variety of Cheese Flavors Draws Attention
A campaign favoring Cheshire cheese prompts a study of cheese varieties. London Tit-Bits reports just over 200 varieties exist, with 33 produced in Britain showing regional taste differences. Manche ster white and brick red cheeses highlight local preferences while Roquefort and Gruyere use sheep and goat milk.
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Cheshire
London
British Isles
Lancashire
Manchester
Norfolk
Derby
Gloucester
Leicester
York
Roquefort
Gruyere
Milk producing trees rival cow milk in tropical lands
In the West Indies a tree called hyahua yields a juice from bark and pith thicker than cow milk. Singhalese Kirighuma and Para forest massenodendron trees also produce milky fluids. Massenodendron milk keeps indefinitely without souring.
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West Indies
Wireless Speed Versus Sound Delays Highlight Concert Room Echo
A comparison notes sound travels through air at 1100 feet per second while wireless signals move at 186000 miles per second. With a singer one foot from the microphone, sound reaches that mic in a thousandth of a second and a person across a 100 foot room hears it in about one tenth of a second. In contrast a wireless listener 200 miles away would hear it in roughly one fiftieth of a second, five times faster than the in-room acoustic travel.
Radio for the Blind Proposes Morning Broadcast Plan
German professor Dr Gustav Gaertner proposes early morning radio broadcasts for the blind. A single speaker would reach listeners over a large area. He suggests a round robin to learn audience preferences and a program mixing news, literature, and basic science.
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Gustav Gaertner
American Idea in France Tests Electric Miner Lamps
Experiments in French coal mines use electric miners' lamps worn on the cap and powered by a dry battery in the pocket. The hands remain free to work the coal, and if tests prove satisfactory the American concept may be adopted throughout French mines.
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France
United States
Long Gravity Railway Featured At Paris Exposition 1925
The longest gravity railway in the world will be a feature of the great exposition of the decorative arts in Paris in April 1925. It will be longer than the Wembley railway, running along the Seine from the Pont des Invalides to the Pont de l Alma a distance of about three quarters of a mile.
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Paris
Wembley
Seine
Pont Des Invalides
Pont de l’Alma
Opportunity Neglected Among Church Women Members
The article notes that over 20 million women are church members in the United States, yet only a small percentage join the women’s organizations within their churches. It argues for greater participation and organization among churchwomen.
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United States
Harvard Herb Laboratory to Test New England Herbs
Harvard University botanic garden will become a test ground for herbs suitable to the New England region. The project aims to be a complete laboratory of plants grown in northern gardens.
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Harvard’s
Harvard University Botanic Garden
New England
Education in Yucatan student distribution at Universidad del Sureste
A report from H Vogenitz shows 1844 students at Universidad del Sureste Merida Yucatan. More than one third study in the normal school. 22 percent in literature 194 in arts and science and nine in chemistry.
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Universidad del Sureste
Merida
Yucatan
H. ©. Vogenitz
Progreso
Mex
Cabbage Plants for Sale and Reward Offer
Frost proof Early Wakefield and Flat Dutch cabbage plants offered at 25¢ per 100, 800 and 500, 700 and 1.00 postpaid 1.25. Major Crow's Plant Farm Flowery Branch also lists a reward for a lost small Waltham wrist watch with leather strap and gold filled case. Reward includes 1 horse and saddle 1 two horse wagon 35 to 40 bushels of corn 400 bundles of fodder 1 two horse turning plow and more. Call G. W. Carner at once.
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Crow
Flowery Branch
Waltham
G. W. Carner
Milledgeville Farm Offered Near Court House and Sanitarium
216 acres Milledgeville Ga located within one mile from Court House and one mile from State Sanitarium. Suitable for dairy and cotton farming with a six room dwelling two three room tenant houses a modern dairy barn with concrete floor hay barn 180 acres cultivated 25 acres hay meadow balance pasture and wood. Terms half cash balance long time. Write A J Carr Jr Milledgeville Ga.
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Milledgevilde
Court House
State Sanitarium
A.J. Carr, JR
Milledgeville
Honest work invite for lifetime position in Atlanta
An advertisement invites applicants for a life time position with a large manufacturer. It requests those with retail, mail route, or public office experience in the county to apply at 1804 Citizens Southern Bank Building in Atlanta, with age and business experience noted and assurances of confidential handling.
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Salomon
Mfg
Citizens Southern Bank
Atlanta
Georgia
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Ash
W. B. Townsend
T.J. Christian
W. IL. Housley
Portes
Hi Head
H. Jones
Y. G. Abercrombie
W. J. Free
K. D. Johnson
Ew.h., Jones
W. J. Hightower
G. Hw, McGuire
Board OF Education
Frank Parks
W.T. Dowdy
D. Pierce
D. W. Caldwell
J. Hutcheson
J.J. Seabolt
John H. Moog
W. L. Ash
Meaders
R. Ann Clerk
Auraria
J. A Chapman
J.P. Gane
Mill Creek
H. Chambers
N. P. Nimblewill
M. N. Kendall
N. P
Porter Springs
J. B. Ricketts
R. B. Hawkins
Epworth League
O. T. Smith
R. W. Hightower
Sept. Presbyterian Church
B. W. Baker
J. U. Carson
Fitts’ Nursery
Sheriff’s Sales
Petrified Wood
Dahlonega Cash Store
Park Street
B. Low EK
Burson
John H. Moore & Son
Radio For the Blind
Pineceton Hotel
Central T
Frep Jones & C. O. Wust
F. L. Meaders
G. H. McGuire
Dahlonega, GA
Burns
B. F. Anderson
Middle
W. A. Housley
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