Bank of Dahlonega Ledger Shows 59 084 Liabilities
The Bank of Dahlonega in Lumpkin County Georgia filed its December report dated January 7 1922 listing total liabilities of 59 084 82 and capital stock of 16 000 with 22 106 86 in demand deposits 20 004 67 in time certificates and 430 00 in cashier's checks. Signed by Cashier F Jackson. The Lumpkin County Bank reported assets totaling 128 891 42 with capital stock 15 000 surplus 8 000 and deposits 46 679 79 plus time certificates 54 481 38 and savings 8 670 91. Sworn statements filed January 7 1922.
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Georgia
Lampkin County
T. F. Jackson
Bank of Dahlonega
F. Jackson
F. Oreistran
State of Georgia
Lumpkin County
Speer
Bank of Lumpkin County
Weef ar Steak per pound 124 Stewheest Ww Pork Sausage
Dalivaread Market at McGuire Stand lists cash prices for beefsteak per pound and pork sausage with Carl Beck as the seller.
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Dalivaread
McGuire Stand
Carl Beck
Lost Christmas day gold bar sale notice fragment
Fragmentary OCR text describes a gold bar with a diamond and a sloped pin, plus scattered references to notes, deeds, and court blanks for sale at the Nugget Office. Mentions Quisetie Moore and a vow involving beef cattle.
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Forse Shop
J.P. Court
Torell
Quuisetie Moore
Philadelphia woman turns to year round drill and program work
The article notes a Philadelphia woman shifting from occasional event planning to a full year round career in organizing programs, plays, cantatas, and drills for all ages, often from her home. She earns 20 to 40 cents an hour with support from church offerings and fees from schools and clubs. A second story explains a University of Pennsylvania endowment establishing the world’s first chair in endocrinology to study ductless glands linked to epilepsy and other diseases, with plans for curricula nationwide.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
University
University Medical School
The
American Therapeutic Society
United States
Comforting Indiana minister’s wife faces surgery tale
Quiet Hoggs deeds give way to child quarrel as a Hoosier minister and wife prepare for hospital operation. The seven year old twins Flora and Floyd argue about the mother’s possible death prompting a lecture on worrying. Floyd cites Mr Long and a remark about a new wife.
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Floyd
Stopped at Last in Kite and Birdhouse Prank Tale
A child recalls recent rivalries with a neighbor boy. He boasts of outwitting him this time after previous pranks involving a kite and a birdhouse. The mother asks if they fought, and the boy explains the pattern of swapping items and leaving holes dug but not taken home.
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Harry
Flights of the Future Wings and the hatrack joke
A Birmingham Age Herald cartoon quote envisions future travel with wings worn outdoors. The citizen shrugs off autos as the last word and imagines wings hung on the hall wall when not used, reflecting speculative transportation progress. The line captures early 20th century curiosity about airborne travel.
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Birmingham Age Herald
Educating Ernestine Passages on Hairdresser Tales
A humorous excerpt about women sharing life stories with hairdressers as hair waves tempt confidences. It notes women forgive many sins in men but withhold forgiveness for artifices like a halo waved by cosmetic means. Florence A Kilpatrick quotes from Educating Ernestine.
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Ernestine
Florence A. Kilpatrick
Each Has Place in Lodge As Ojibway Lodge Fire Tradition
The Ojibway lodge fire is built in lodge fashion with upright sticks crossing to form a draft that vents through a central apex. Ventilation inside tepees is praised as healthier than houses, warning that careless civilization harmed many by tuberculosis. Arthur Heming notes tepee seating assigns roles from woodpile to wife, baby, husband, children, and dogs, with guests given the warmest seat.
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Arthur Heming
New Fog Devices Aim to Boost Air Travel Safety
British authorities discuss three fog defeating aids for pilots from Scientific American. One uses a charged electrical cable along the airway to emit constant signals guiding flight. A second deploys a weighted line to indicate when to descend. The third, an artificial horizon gyroscope, keeps a pilot's view aligned with an unseen horizon using a tiny model aircraft for demonstration.
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Scientific American
Census Chaos Sparks Quebec Farmer Grievance
The Vancouver World recounts a Quebec habitant's protest at a census tally that shows the province with 2 345 678 people. He complains the census taker misrecorded his large family, arguing he and his wife produced many more children than listed, calling the official’s method a damne consult for a brave habitant.
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Quebec
Jean Baptiste
Jeanne—Marie—Rosine
Angelique
Sophie — Josette
Dere
Polemique
Telesphore
Hippoclyte
Belzemirne
Hergemidas
Alphonse
Jeanne Marie Rosine Angelique Sophie Josette
Hippolyte Belzemire
Horsemidas Alphonse
Canadiaw
Victorine
Vancouver
The Exception Proves the Rule Reconsidered
A historical note explains the saying that exceptions test rules but do not prove them. Originally prove meant test in Paul’s phrase Prove all things, so exceptions may reveal weaknesses or strength in a rule. The discussion argues exceptions either weaken a rule or show its overall vindication.
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St. Paul
Central Australia as a cattle and horse frontier
The piece notes Afghan camels as the main transport in Central Australia where the North South railway ends at Oodnadatta. It argues the region, though not a desert, offers great potential for cattle and horse raising, with vast holdings and low population. It predicts prosperity if opened and irrigated.
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Central Australia
North South Railway
Port Augusta
Adelaide
Oodnadatta
Wales
Central
Australia
The Wrong Clock Causes Morning Alarm in Scotland
A Scotch farmer's son returns from the city with an alarm clock, prompting the old man to wonder at the clock's effect on waking folk. He muses that sticks could wake people at night, but notes sticks will not bring them home in the dark, reflecting on daylight conservation's unintended consequences.
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Nieht
Scotland
Edinburgh Scotsman
The First Counterfeit Man Richard Vaughan of Stafford
Richard Vaughan a linen draper from Stafford England raised the Bank of England’s first counterfeit scare in 1758. After forging bank notes to impress his fiancee his fraud ended when an engraver alerted authorities revealing the deception and Vaughan’s downfall.
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Richard Vaughan
Stafford
Eng
Bank of England
Vaughan
Indians in the World War 100 Percenters Honored
A London table shows 10 000 full blooded Indians lie among American dead in France. The Philadelphia Ledger praises their bravery as cool dispassionate fighters and marksmen, noting most were volunteers and that their war effort earned national recognition for Native Americans.
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London
France
United States
Joseph K. Dixon
Haig
Foeh
Pershin
Philadelphia Evening Ledger
Old Cod dington house attic linked to colonial escape tale
In the Quincy mansion attic a double hidden chamber preserves a secret stairway used by John Hancock to evade British searchers and later escape through a passage to the ground. Initials J Hi and a love inscription on a wall are linked to him, with Anne Hutchinson and William Wheelright among early visitors.
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New England
Coddington
Quincy
Mass
Quincy Mansion
Colonial Dames
Mary Northend
Boston Transcript
Edmund Quincy
Wheelright
Anne Hutchinson
John Hancock
Dorothy Quincey
Blame Ancestors for Colds in Draft Susceptibility
The Vos sische Zeitung reports Herr Prof. Doktor Th. Zeit argues Germans are more draft-susceptible due to ancestral forest dwelling. Doctor Zell notes animals’ habitats influence comfort with wind, while humans diverge with migrations and possible loss of ancestral draft sensitivity.
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Prof
Doktor Th. Zeit
Vossische Zeitung
Doctor Zell
Cliff Dwellers race of Indians described in cliff homes
The cliff dwellers were a race formerly living along the Rio Grande and Rio Colorado who built multi room homes high in cliff recesses. Their subsistence is unclear but likely hunting and fishing. Pueblo Indians in the area are believed descendants with notable pottery skills.
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Rio Grande
Rio Colorado
Stretch to Rebuild Nerves Through Rest and Stretch
Advice urges eight to nine hours sleep, a low pillow, and cod liver oil with a diet of eggs berries apples maple sugar onions beans and celery. When tired, rest briefly then lie flat and stretch by pulling toes under a stable edge to vigor. Repeat cycles to improve energy.
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Department OF Banking
State OF
R.C. Drapers
J.S. Speer
Condition OF Tit Bank of
U. S. Treasury
W.S. Gaillarp
Notary Public State
Weef
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
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