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15 Jul 1927
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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1927
Page
1
A brief financial entry notes a total amount for the current period dated this July. The text provides no explicit figures or entities beyond the month and generic timing.
Glen I. Winship cited Jane Porter as the first woman to gain prominence in fiction with Thaddeus of Warsaw. Catharine Sedgwick followed, author of Redwood, once misattributed to James Cooper, and Harriet Beecher Stowe brought international fame with Uncle Tom's Cabin. Women then faced prejudice but now make up over a third of successful novelists in America and England.
Bettina Bedwell notes in Liberty that Paul Poiret, famed for freeing women from corsets with the straight-line frock, began as an umbrella maker’s apprentice. He sketched and dressed idealized silhouettes, sold designs to Worth and Doucet, then joined Doucet before opening his own salons on Rue Auber where his fame grew.
In Birmingham Alabama Clifford Carter, after arrest, searched pockets yielded a worn rabbit’s foot and spare change. He counted thirteen dollars and thirteen cents on the sergeant’s desk and joked that luck won’t beat the figures, asking to be locked up.
The desert Easter service remembered caravans of treasure seekers who perished crossing Death Valley in early California days. Towers of dune tombs were decorated as a wooden cross stood on a high mound marking the memorial amid shifting sands.
Report states Kalat Beluchistan, a dependency of India, has abolished slavery. It notes slavery existed in India since at least the sixth century BC and highlights a major social shift in the region.
The Argonaut notes Tadwig von Beethoven died in 1827 and that late praise from an eminent critic and the San Francisco mayor confirms his sonatas and musical compositions as worthy. The city speech marks a final reception of his work.
A grocer facing bankruptcy agreed to predate a $400 check per a wholesaler’s suggestion. The check was cashed on January 3 with a misleading date of January 15, 1926. The wholesaler’s risk paid off when the bank honored the check, prompting a potential legal challenge over predated checks.
Dr Joseph J Interland of New York argues that feet reveal unique individuality. A study of a thousand foot pairs shows variations surpassing fingerprint patterns and he demonstrates the method to police officials.
A synthetic house produced in England uses felt lined steel plates on a wooden frame. Motor trucks transport a unit to the site where it is assembled in hours. The design features bricklike steel walls or artificial stone veneer, a bungalow layout with living room two bedrooms kitchenette and bath priced at 1800 dollars.
Scientific studies of the stars rely on electric motors to operate large telescopes. At the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory near Vancouver, a 72 inch instrument weighing 55 tons is moved and finely tuned by motors controlled by observers via push buttons at their belts.
The five largest members of Berlin's Fat Men's club total more than a ton. Membership requires at least 350 pounds, and the heaviest weighs 84 pounds more than that threshold.
The United States Commerce Department reports lace exports from China exceed four million dollars with Irish lace edging spreading from Swatow since 1920. Chinese women in Shanghai area cities craft filet lace for European silk lingerie, aided by low labor costs and tariffs.
The report recalls a remark by War Secretary Davis on mobilizing 4,000,000 and turning factories to war work while hoping for no more war. It contrasts gas and submarines with the harsh truth that modern war remains cruel, then veers to a staged dialogue about money and poetry ending with a sharp jab about the poor house.
The landlord of the Petugia tavern recalls a cinema blackout at the Oriental Grotto last night. No heckling or audience antics occurred during the half hour of darkness, described as unusual by patrons.
The United States Department of Agriculture announces a new process for making newsprint from hardwoods. It could sustain newsprint supply from aspen and birch and possibly maple in the Northeast and aid development of a southern newsprint industry using gum wood.
New York architecture expert Thomas Hastings writes in Forum that despite the city’s skyline, only about two per cent of Manhattan’s 97 000 buildings qualify as skyscrapers. This prompts a reconsideration of density and growth in the metropolitan core.
A small school in London for children of canal boatmen is run by London County Council. Attendance ranges from thirteen to forty pupils, making it the council’s smallest day school.
Scientists led by I E Matthes of the USGS warn Mirror Lake in Yosemite National Park will vanish in about fifteen to twenty years due to continual sediment buildup from Tenaya and Snow creeks. The lake, formed after the last ice age, has shrunk from nearly a mile long to a small lake as delta growth encroaches its surface.
A dispute surfaces as a father objects to a relationship citing proximity, with a comical exchange over physical and moral boundaries within a mile of the home. The row highlights tensions in family and property relations in the community.
Lester Jones director of the coast and geodetic survey says accurate earthquake prediction is extremely remote. He argues natural peril may be understood through science and protection becomes an engineering problem, with disasters minimized by protective measures from careful research.
Mrs. Sarah Stringer died in Hartlepool England twelve years after shrapnel wounds from the German bombardment. She bore injuries all over her body that never fully healed. A coroner’s jury returned a verdict that death followed wounds received in the bombardment.
A dignified young businesswoman stands in a Philadelphia office building corridor waiting for the elevator. She glances outside to see rain, then raises her umbrella overhead and returns to her place before the elevator cage.
Four New England girls colleges report bobbing hair on the wane as cap per’s weekly notes the trend. The girls say they are tired of frequent barber trips and the fashion shift toward less masculine styles for women is seen as passing.
State of Georgia Lumpkin County announces Sallie Martin has applied for guardianship of R. V. Gillispie. Hearing set for 10 o clock A M on the first Monday in August at the guardian’s office. Dated July 4 1827. W. I. Lowsxs exp Orkin.
Local barber shop advertises expert grooming by H. R. Woody at Woody Barber Shop. The notice highlights first class service and professional cuts, inviting patrons to visit for quality barbering.
The City Council orders tax returns for 1027 to be received at Hooussey Bros. store and H. I Burns barber shop from June 18 until July 16. Mayor G. L. Moonn presides over the process.
Physicians endorse system purification and urge Calotabs to cleanse the body. A thorough course taken weekly or biweekly over several weeks can bolster vitality, with Calotabs marketed as the greatest of all system purifiers. A family prescription with directions costs 85 cents at drugstores.
Twenty University of Minnesota students filed into traffic court to pay parking fines. A female student, asked what her instructor would say about paying a police headquarters fine, replied that he would not say a word, as he stood in line behind her with a tag.
At Atlanta Georgia C Dukehart stooped to pick up a screwdriver that slipped from his pocket and found a chamois skin bag beside it containing jewelry valued at 15000 dollars. The owner Rena Dively received the bag and its contents.
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