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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1927
Page
1
Vienna maintains a building program with a tax funded scheme to supply 25,000 apartments. Tenants pay building fund costs and spread out to occupy more rooms, creating a shortage as postwar population declines. Landlords lose incentive to repair, so tenants self repair under city rules. Despite drawbacks, the housing system remains a valuable resource for families.
Paris hosts a Pan American initiative led by Marshal Joffre as chairman with a 1 250 000 dollar fund funding La Casa de los Naciones Americanas. The residence aims to be an intellectual Latin American embassy in France where prominent minds meet. A Latin American literary circle in Paris and the Riviera shapes attitudes against U S influence.
Miss Pat Mohun and Paul Hinricks of Baltimore and Jennings Perry of Mehneaseeaty travel by bicycle through Algeria and the Sahara. They rode 400 miles from Algiers to Ghardaia and head toward Guerrara and Taggart, continuing at their own pace.
Japan faces rising asphalt demand from expanding road mileage. Annual imports from the United States total about 60,000 tons. Japan Petroleum is the sole local producer, while Ogura and Chiyode plans to produce asphalt in large quantities.
An invention from California, the Color Piano uses 6 000 electric lamps in a theater setting to color the stage in sync with music. An operator works a ten key switch board with one hand and a separate switch set with the other to create rhythmic light patterns.
Pierre Van Paassen laments Paris westward movement that levels blocks and threatens humble dwellings. He notes Danton and Marat meeting places and Robespierre’s refuges as endangered historic sites, and praises a society fighting modernist vandalism to protect these memories.
Women scientists led by Dr. Miriam Iszard of the University of Pennsylvania report a method to extend mayonnaise shelf life. A spore forming bacterium causes spoilage. adding small amounts of lactic acid halts bacterial growth without altering the dressing’s taste, enabling up to five months of storage.
Zeke Yawkey recounts young Dorricks using stones against neighbors and even the doctor as they clear the farm of small stones. He notes Jesse James Dorrick was stoned after a skunk incident, and predicts no large rocks will remain by completion.
About 50 officials from a Douglas Arizona copper company attended a banquet at the base of an 850 foot smokestack. Smoke poured from fur furnaces into the smelter stack as tables were arranged in a circle to fit the unique room with white entrances accessed through a vent at the bottom of the stack.
Lady Maud Hoare wife of Sir Samuel Hoare the British air minister traveled with him on a flight to India and back, becoming the first woman to cover 10000 miles by air. On returning she was named a dame commander of the Order of the British Empire.
A centenary note on Beethoven and a king who rewarded the composer with a fake diamond ring. Beethoven, in financial need, kept the ring until near death and later offered it for sale. the king funded his own lavish entitlements, highlighting a contrast between royalty and the artist’s hardship.
A Montreal dispatch reports relics of Saint Victor and Saint Vedeste, placed by the late Cardinal Begin in 1894, were found New Year in a pile of stones at Anto ine Villeneuve’s yards in Limoilou after the Quebec Basilica fire. The relics were transferred with Basilica stones and returned to the Basilica after being discovered.
The article notes that Atlantic liners approaching ports should discharge small planes with urgent cargo or passengers in exceptional cases. It confirms catapult launches from ship decks and shows unmanned planes reaching 35 miles, with a projected increase toward 100 miles.
R. W. Tyler of Rockland Maine returned home after a rough ride to find a radio tube broken. He improvised using a safety pin a flashlight tube and a thread of iron wire from a window screen and soon had the evening program playing through the speaker as reported by the Boston Globe.
Miss Olga de la Barra, aged twenty one, acts as Chilean consul in Glasgow while her father Dr. Thomas de la Barra, the first foreigner to earn a PhD at Glasgow University, is on vacation. She has long served as his secretary.
Industrial sites adopt X ray machines for quality control and research. A steel mill now operates several units to detect flaws in steel before it becomes machine parts.
A child asks about a cavity after explaining a sore hole in a tooth. His mother explains a cavity is a hole in the tooth, and the boy grasps the concept with a simple, homespun analogy.
The Dearborn Independent reports that U S sales of musical instruments abroad exceeded 12 million dollars in 1924. Player pianos from Chicago invade Japan with samisen, while American reed organs spread to British India and English churches, and organs from St. Louis are in use.
Studio property men struggle to secure five tons of soft coal for a new picture in Hollywood. They note heat is produced mainly by gas oil briquettes wood or electricity, complicating production.
The bronchoscope invented by Dr Chevalier Jackson removes foreign bodies from lungs. The tool enters through the mouth into the lung and uses a tiny electric light to illuminate the area. A forceps grasps the swallowed object and draws it out with no injury. The doctor received a $10,000 Philadelphia award for conspicuous service.
Two men from Kansas City Missouri robbed a patient in a Tulsa hospital room. Charles W Neal testified they entered his bed with a pistol and took a ring valued at 1000 dollars and a watch. A nurse escorted the men from the room after warning of visiting hours ending.
New students at Pennsylvania State College are photographed upon registration mirroring passport photos. Five prints are produced. one is attached to the student record in the registrar’s office, while the others go to the college physician, the dean, and the department head of the student’s enrolled field.
Dr. P. P. von Weimann of Osaka’s Imperial Research Institute reports successful experiments turning waste silk into higher quality threads. Rags dissolved, chemical processing yielded a liquid and jelly, then a plastic substance drawn into silk threads.
A motorist questions Jerolomon’s large family in Slippery Slap. Lum Dumm replies they are not large but noisy, with one wife seven children and many in-laws and hungry kin living on hire. The quarreling clan is described humorously in this Kansas City Star excerpt.
The City Council of Dahlonega ordered tax return openings from June 13 to July 16, 1927, at Housiey Bros store and H. Tl Burns Barber Shop, to receive 1927 tax returns. Mayor G. H. Moors announced the action.
B F Anderson advertises fresh water ground meal regular at 90 cents to $1.00 for children. Keeps corn and fodder, three furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Hats discounted to $1.00 from $1.50, $2.50 hats to $2.00. Dresses reduced to $1.50 and $4.50 to $5.00. Silk hose 50 cents to 85 cents. Bargains beckon customers.
Physicians tout Calotabs as the path to a purified system and renewed health. Take a thorough course once or twice weekly for several weeks and feel nature reward you. A family permit with full directions costs 85 cents at drugstores.
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