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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1911
Page
4
A farm minded piece argues leaves and ash are not soil, but air derived nutrients. It notes plants gain carbon and nitrogen from air, hydrogen from sap, while soil adds potash and phosphorus. It urges manure use and crop rotation to restore depleted soils, warning soil nutrients must be replenished to sustain crops.
In a dim mood the minister laments the decay of patriotism and asks how to find patriots. The senator replies he could raise a hundred in a day by refusing an unreasonable demand, suggesting patriots arise from discontent.
A minister recalls his eight year old daughter praising a preacher after church. She says Brother is strong because dust rose when he stamped his feet, revealing the child's candid impression of the sermon and the minister's amused reaction.
Jones bets Brown he cannot spell three simple words in twenty seconds. Brown correctly spells Believe and Receive but trips on the third word as time runs out, prompting a puzzled finish and a humorous twist.
A traveling showman calls the chimpanzee “the ore inside the cage” and claims it comes closest to being human among nonhuman species. He warns a youth poking the animal with a cane to stand back, noting the company might misstep.
In the exchange Bill reveals he has barely been outside, while the Sympathetic Pal-Wot questions his condition. Bill replies the judge would not believe it, indicating a lighthearted or social dialogue from a London scene.
The article explains that seeing stars after a blow or stress stems from temporary eye globe compression and eyelid relaxation. It notes the initial sensation often originates in the inner ear rather than the eye, tying vertigo to semicircular canal disturbance and urging careful ear examination in eye trouble cases.
Max Nordan praises Suabians as the most humorous people and notes their silence when not speaking. He recalls youth in Suabia and a Suabian maiden, where the mother calls from upstairs asking Gretchen to shut the front door from outside, highlighting a light regional anecdote.
The aborigines valued beauty of the region and their councils included Chief Tamenend or Tammany a Delaware whose wisdom made him Amer ica’s patron saint. Old and feeble his tribe left him in a hut at New Britain Pa where he attempted suicide by stabbing and then burned himself to death before burial at the scene.
The Kongo Free State, largely unknown to whites before 1876, was recognized by European powers in 1885. It spans a vast right bank Kongo river strip and covers about 802,000 square miles, with a mixed population of a few thousand whites and about 16 million blacks. Its climate poses challenges for Europeans, though sanitization could enable white settlement.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer fragment shows a domestic dialogue where a child misreads charity as malice within kin. The exchange skewers Aunt Jane’s hair and Uncle Jim’s baldness as casual jabs, illustrating fraught family dynamics through humor.
In a Metropolitan Magazine tale, Bishop Potter avoids Sunday travel and is urged by Mr. Morgan to take a later express train. Morgan stops a freight by smashing a door to light a lantern and guides the bishop into the caboose for a ride to New York, risking a collision with the following express.
A department store buyer on a trip to Europe buys a large steamer trunk. After the trunk is sent home a prank call reveals a mix up in trunk side. The caller apologizes and asks to return the trunk.
The article outlines music's birth in antiquity, likely among the Egyptians who used it in religious rites. It credits the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews with passing and transforming musical knowledge, noting Christian melodies grew from temple hymns to form early authoritative musical systems.
In a quip filled exchange two Trishmen argue over what holds bricks together. Pat insists tar keeps bricks apart, while Mike claims tar binds bricks, prompting a witty clash from the comic “Trish: Life and Tumor.”
Georgia Lumpkin County will sell before the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in February to the highest bidder for cash the listed land parcels. The sale includes land numbers 74h and 746 in the 60th District and a half acre town lot on Arcadia Avenue known as the John Thomas Place in Dahlonega. Proceeds satisfy fi fas in favor of De C H Jones and M J Williams against: Carl Caldwell and Lettie Coffey. Levy returned by E Carrell and Sargent.
The Pisa guide, famed for a solo howl in the baptistery near Campo Santo, draws visitors with a celestial echo that rises from the dome. He recalls Moshu Feelmore and Moshu Tillmore as boasts of the world’s finest echo, laments being named in guidebooks, and recalls how Victor Emmanuel demanded the same echo.
An uptown engineering operation required a worker to hold another on a rope halfway down a deep well. Patrick kept the rope taut as Terence descended, but Patrick only heard Terence call to be pulled up after a tense quarter hour when Terence threatened to cut the rope if not lifted.
A Baltimore American item notes Miss Gladys displays an engaging disposition and that her present fiancé is her fourth suitor of the season, reflecting swift social matchmaking.
Georgia Lumpkin County. By order of the Gwinnett Superior Court and special court orders the administrator will sell at public auction the northeast half of lot 207 in the 18th district 1st section containing acres more or less. Sale aids division among heirs at law. January 2 1911. C Rawnirs administrator estate of Martha Strickland.
North Georgia Agricultural College presents a state institution listing in Dansonega Georgia. It details courses in agriculture mining engineering languages music business domestic science art and physical culture with a U S Army corps. Admission excludes boys under fifteen. Board ten dollars monthly and annual expenses about one hundred fifty dollars. Catalogue available from G R Glenn LL D president.
Directory lists court dates on April and October third Mondays, officers, pastors, merchants, educational leaders, and services in Lumpkin and nearby towns. It names J. J. Jones as judge, Robert Mc Millan as solicitor general, county officials, pastors, merchants, schools, hotels, barbershops, and livery stables with respective contacts.
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