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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1919
Page
1
The article recalls Flora Shaw later known as Lady Hugard and her fame as traveler and writer. In an upcountry South African town she requested a wash before dinner, delaying water, while the fish for her meal had already been cooked.
The Catskill region and other eastern mountains host a mosquito species that lays eggs in dry ground hollows during July. When spring snowmelt fills the hollows, the eggs hatch in May, producing larvae in newly flooded habitats.
The Bureau of Mines advises ventilation to avoid spontaneous combustion of coal piles. Recommendations include building a coal bin on dry ground, storing only one coal size per pile, removing fine coal for use, avoiding alternating wetting and drying, placing small piles near storage areas, and using small bins in storage yards.
Sponges possess a canal system and a constant water current of 82 through their bodies. The flow is directed by unique cells not found in higher animals, and sponges depend entirely on this water current for life.
In a reflection attributed to Aristotle, fertile land yielding flowers and fruit is linked to an intelligent able class of people. He later reframed this as a sequence rather than a coincidence, noting a consistent link between productive land and human excellence.
The article notes attempts to cultivate tobacco in Scotland during the American Civil War, mainly near Kelso. It reports that the venture, though not fully successful elsewhere, thrived there, yielding sixteen and a half statute acres at a value of 520 dollars per acre.
A Houston Post aside criticizes sculptors for making busts of near-statesmen in Washington. The note argues statuary should wait ten years after a man’s death, then little of it would be needed.
A reflective remark on character noting that clever rogues can be agreeable and that sociable people may lack dignity. The author explores social perception and moral contrasts with concise, quotable insight.
The fragment discusses myths about the moon among Hindu and Egyptian traditions. It mentions a sun god crushing a night mouse and includes lines about cats, mice, and shadows when the moon is absent.
A compact reflection on how ignorance rarely becomes knowledge without an intermediate obscurity, likened to night turning into day through twilight. The thought underscores the gradual shift from unknown to understanding.
An English physician advances the theory that mouth juices serve to keep teeth clean rather than aid digestion, challenging common beliefs about their digestive role.
A quoted line from Topeka Copiteal shows a girl declaring to friends that all of us girls will teach next year in a restroom scene. The remark reflects informal school slang and future plans among students.
Lieut. Carl Brooksher writes home from France on a Sunday in November recounting destroyed towns, a battlefield dinner, and French relief. He notes anti aircraft fire, a parachute jumper escaping, and the pilot killed as the plane dives toward ground. Brooksher expects to return home by spring.
A town mayor fined a local editor fifty dollars for refusing to wear a flu mask. The editor’s subsequent write up about the city council was deemed unfit by the post office, leading to delay or denial of mailing.
A long home letter from James G Garrett in France mentions reading Dahlonega Nueepts, hopes for peace, and distance from home. It includes comments on stock law, goat and sheep mixing, tax support for mountain land, and local political views in Hall Lumpkin Union counties. Also notes Christmas separations, a personal lawsuit in Cher okee county, many Fulton marriage licenses, and wartime ship figures.
In a November 24, 1918 letter from Chaumont, France, Private R. O. Albertson writes to his father about lifting censoring, good health, and office work at General Headquarters since October 10. He recalls a rough sea voyage, sea sickness, and a convoy that avoided torpedoes, landing first at Glasgow and moving to southern France toward the front, with hopes of home by Christmas.
The Cephalonia carrying a heavy cargo of TNT turned stern to the breeze to keep a fire from spreading while a U boat threat loomed. A British aviator recounts meeting a German 17 inch shell, with the air and shock waves nearly tossing his aircraft as the shell passed by.
The 1780 Dublin shoeblacks are depicted as a numerous, bold group using lampblack and eggs. They sit on three legged stools, scrape boots with a spudd, wipe with a wig, and apply a thick polish with a painter’s brush, producing a strong odor of rotten eggs in homes.
A vivid Collier's Weekly reminiscence by William Stevens McNutt describes duckboard as slippery crosswise strips used to keep feet dry in mud, with feet often airborne during play. The piece notes military origins, aircraft wobble above trench lines, and humorous anecdotes about Charley Chaplin.
A renowned American relief worker visits a hospital as a military car arrives for her. She sees wounded soldiers in an ambulance, tears of gratitude fill her eyes, and a young soldier says his service would be worth nothing without her tears, proving the worth of their efforts.
Dr. Edgar De Witt Jones recalls his ten year old son's request for a German flag and how they burned it in the yard. The child and his sister Dorothy ceremoniously disposed of the flag's ashes and buried them in a small grave, a quiet personal moment amid wartime passions.
The London Times lauds the Prince of Wales for his wartime bearing and aims to travel to overseas dominions. It notes his firsthand view of the empire’s races and the king’s prior remark on personal enlightenment guiding such a voyage.
The burgomaster of Arnsberg in Westphalia placed an ad offering cash for all agricultural products and a ticket to buy brandy or rum at reduced municipal prices. After twenty four hours the cellars were empty and residents enjoyed their first square meal in weeks.
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