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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1925
Page
1
Perryville Missouri youth nicknamed Hinckey Dinkey Pinkypank grows into a famed humorous name. Classmates quickly added Dinkey as a middle name, and the full moniker sticks as his cheerful identity. He embraces the quirky lineage from Hinckey and Pinkypank.
Keene New Hampshire asserts ownership of the widest paved street in the United States. Investigations support the claim, noting other towns only have grass plots or central walks. The Keene street exceeds 200 feet in width curb to curb and features an electric car track.
Physicians endorse Calotabs as a complete system purifier and advise regular doses to cleanse the body. A family package with full directions costs 35 cents and a trial package 10 cents is available at drug stores.
Advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Medicine describing an ointment and an internal tonic that act through the blood to relieve catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh. Promotes sales by druggists and credits J Cheney & Co Toledo, Ohio.
The article recounts a boast by German Modesty Plunket Greene that he and his brother introduced lawn tennis to Germany. It notes a society craze, a scandalous officer in full Blue Uhlans dress who was court martialed, then injured, ending the trend. An oar-beat incident spooked matrons as Greene waded to shore, soaking clothes and ending tennis as spectacle.
A brief admonition contrasts festive drinking with sobering restraint. The piece cautions that merry excess leads to trouble, urging moderation and healthful choices amid a lively social scene.
A new gold palladium alloy named rhetanium emerges after research. It is claimed to be a satisfactory platinum substitute with superior qualities for some uses. Experiments show gold and palladium as the main components forming a nonoxidizing, malleable, ductile homogeneous solid solution with high melting point and acid alkali resistance.
Earl Carroll, recently jailed on a charge of exhibiting indecent pictures in his New York theater lobby, argues the works are art and mocks critics as blind. He cites a mill town scratchy eight hour law contrasting a plant offering a full twelve hours to complete a day’s work.
Authorities on old clocks and watches say that numbers in watches do not reliably indicate maker or date. In past years some manufacturers used high numbers as a date marker, sometimes two or three figures, sometimes forming a cryptogram for insiders.
A Business Manager disburses funds, a secretary keeps accounts, a sleepless sentinel guards money, and a carrier delivers nationwide. The passage lists several bank offices performing these essential functions among others.
North Georgia Agricultural College Branch of the State University highlights membership in the Georgia Association of Colleges with tuition free and moderate fees. Board is $144 yearly under careful student life supervision and college military training. Standard degrees awarded. for catalog info contact JOIN W. WEST, President.
A young girl in a bakery asks for a dozen cross word buns, then corrects herself to a dozen hot cross buns as customers laugh at the misheard order. The moment captures a lighthearted shop scene in a large store's bakery department.
A remarkable machine invented in England can take dictation answer the telephone in the subscriber’s absence report the caller and take a message to be repeated later. It resembles a phonograph and uses cylindrical records.
A Great Bend matron recalls her college days and mentions a coed once popular on campus. She says the girl was wicked and used rouge that winter, a remark cited by the Kansas City Star.
Barcelona prepares to open its first subway with electric motive power and modern features. Elevators will move passengers between street level and underground stations at deep track points.
An Oregon scientist, Professor J. Dudley in Eugene, studies California sequoias aged 525 years before Christ to find a life extending substance in their sap. He believes a cellularly stored element in the trees may unlock longevity and hopes to apply the discovery to human aging.
The largest suspension bridge in the world would span the Firth of Forth in Scotland near the cantilever railroad bridge. It would have two main spans of 24,000 feet each, surpassing any current single-span bridge.
Report from Nome Beit Hane Vina describes a dig revealing a first century villa with five rooms a courtyard and a warden. Inscriptions mention St Talhas and a quest to locate the tombs of St Peter and St Paul. Excavations continue seasonally behind a apse with underground routes suspected.
A brief dialogue shows Friend dismissing interest in the other’s affairs while a Telephone Operator chides use of the word business, calling it a calling. The light exchange underscores playful banter about privacy and vocation.
A star named 46 Tauri may be a genuine companion to the sun. Discovered by D W J Suyten of Starvard college observatory, the star is visible from Lick Observatory and Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. It approaches the sun at about 0.5 km/s and moves slowly across the sky, suggesting it travels through space with the sun.
American interests widen industrial holdings in Canada and Venezuela while expanding oil projects in Colombia. An auto maker grows in Australia the Netherlands and Sweden. An American firm takes control of Spain’s telephone network. Anglo-Chilean Nitrate and Railways bought by American interests for 15 million dollars.
The electric lights at small stations along the Southern Pacific railroad are turned on and off by passing trains. When a train is half to three quarters of a mile from a station a mechanical device on the rail is touched, activating a relay to switch lights on. As the train moves beyond the station it strikes a lever again and the lights go off.
Mrs. George Barrow offers a reward for the return of her platinum wrist watch. Notify Dr. Glenn at Dahlonega and Atlanta Bus Line with any information.
The notice advertises blacksmithing including horse shoing as a specialty at the old Bill Anderson Stand and invites customers to bring their work for service.
Public notice offers a home telephone for a few cents daily and claims clear conscience is worth the cost. The ad from Rh. Co. and L. Meaders also invites readers to order magazines and newspapers.
Sheriff announces sale at Dahlonega courthouse on the first Tuesday in August. Property of A R Miller including Farquhar sawmill 20 H P Ajax engine Cornish boiler on wheels on Jule Evans Place three miles from Murrayville to satisfy a Greene county judgment in favor of Woodruff Manufacturing Company. Sale occurs without transport or display at courthouse door.
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