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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
1
Martinsburg West Virginia reports a quirky blue law Sunday provision allowing rug stores to fill prescriptions but forbidding other sales. A popular prescription for general debility mixes one ounce fruit shop with five ounces carbonated water to be taken immediately, and police have not intervened yet.
Notice to teachers: the next state teacher license examination for Georgia will be held on July 81 and August 1 1925. Applicants in Lumpkin County must meet in Dahlonega on the named dates. J J Seanort.
An old advertisement touts Calotabs as a superior system purifier promising health by cleansing the entire body. It urges readers to take a thorough course once or twice weekly for several weeks and offers family and trial packages at 35 cents and 10 cents respectively.
W B Snavely of Taylor Texas shows a rare arrowhead carved from a ruby weighing 15 varats as part of a larger relics collection. He found rubies sapphires and a transparent unknown substance among many arrowheads near Taylor. Experts deem the stones genuine while noting such precious stone arrowheads are unique. Snavely has 57 years of collecting Indian relics and stones in Texas battle grounds.
Col. Martin Crimmins reports a rock ridge over a mile long near Three Rivers with more than 10 000 petroglyphs. He took 100 photographs and 600 sketches while scientists from the Smithsonian consider deciphering them and the early southwest civilization.
In rain drenched streets Bluebelle eyes the sky from a front window as a young man next door vows to wed a sensible girl. She steps out to inspect sidewalks then reenters, later returning for new earrings. Wise girl, he says, as Bluebelle reappears.
Senator Borah mocks the ongoing military and naval squabble as silly. He likens the experts to a child giving toothpicks to a baby, and questions the wisdom of the discourse while recounting a humorous Audrey joke about Donald.
Desider Laky of the University of Budapest warns Hungary is in a divorce epidemic with last year 416 divorces per 100 000 married pairs versus 57 in 1896. He attributes the rise to economic conditions and notes personal crisis reports have grown in Budapest and Vienna among the middle classes.
The Alaska game commission is established with five members. Four will be appointed by the secretary of agriculture from each judicial division. the fifth member will be the chief representative of the biological survey in Alaska and serve as executive officer. The four appointees receive no salaries but are paid per diem and travel expenses. The commission can hire and discharge game wardens. Headquarters are to be in Juneau.
A letter sent to the Toad side eating house between Biddeford and Kennebunk in Didford Maine includes a crude drawing of a house and a large piazza on one side of the highway and a barn on the other. The rural carrier delivered it and noted an 80 cent part of the drawing. The writer, having passed through last summer, hoped to reach the proprietor but did not know the name and used this method.
Dr Samuel J. Copeland recounts an evening with guests and their children. A five year old child, exhausted, tells her mother she cannot say her prayers because she is too tired, illustrating a tender parenting moment from an Indianapolis News report.
North Georgia Agricultural College in Dahlonega offers free tuition with moderate fees totaling about 144 dollars yearly. The school emphasizes student life supervision, military training, high grade instruction, and standard college degrees, inviting inquiries for catalog and information.
Realty listing from Brooksher Realty Co in Dahlonega Georgia offering a 25 room hotel with electric lights and water, a well finished dwelling, and farm and unimproved lands near the Atlanta Asheville Highway. Inquiries directed to J M Brooksour Realty Co Dahlonega GA P O Box 74.
The Francis Scott Key mansion in Georgetown, once home to the author of The Star Spangled Banner from 1803 to 1843, has been converted into a hardware store operated by John R. Hopkins after seven years as a business building.
Four men from Ausable Forks New York played tag with a large fish on a thawed lake. They set tip-ups and hooked the fish, left it momentarily, and returned to find the prize gone. The fish appeared to race away under the ice attracted by a fluttering flag. The fish vanished down the hole with hook and line.
Pierre Pleury serves as official cloud painter on a Paris housetop near the Eiffel Tower. A cloud photographer also works beside him as part of an army effort to catalog cloud conditions for pilots and weather study.
The Pontifical Annuary notes active embassies at the Vatican from France Germany Spain Belgium Chile Peru and legations from Austria Bavaria Bolivia Colombia Costa Rica England Haiti Holland Hungary Morocco Nicaragua Poland Portugal Romania Czechoslovakia Venezuela Yugoslavia Luxembourg semi official Japan Turkey Lithuania. The French government has practically voted to discontinue the Vatican representative office and the move is under discussion.
In a recollection, Melba notes Caruso and fellow stars teased each other at performances. She recalls Tosti with a large false mustache in Covent Garden while she, as Mimi in La Boheme, faced Puccini’s dramatic cues, witness to the tenor’s playful mischief.
A motor cycle equipped with a sidecar fire engine is described as a compact forestry firefighting unit designed to reach rough terrain and forests where standard apparatus cannot easily operate. The setup combines mobility of a motorcycle with pump and hose capabilities for rapid response.
A simple method to prevent fogging in boxed in show windows uses a flat glass or porcelain dish with calcium chloride. The chemical absorbs moisture, preventing condensation on the outside glass. Replace contents every two or three days and dry the calcium chloride to reuse.
An old advertisement touts Thedford’s Black-Draught as a remedy for sedentary work life, poor digestion, headaches, and liver trouble. It claims to clear the head after two doses and to aid stomach and liver issues with laxative effects, priced at 25 cents.
Local shop advertises blacksmithing and horse shoeing at the old Bull Anderson Stand. They invite customers to bring their work for service.
The sheriff will sell at the courthouse in Dahlonega Lumpkin County on the first Tuesday in August between legal hours for cash the Farquhar sawmill a 20 HP Ajax engine and Cornish boiler on wheels on Jule Evans Place three miles from Murrayville The property levied on as the Miller debt to Woodruff Manufacturing Company in Greene County Georgia with possession by McClure and Abercrombie The sale will occur without transport of the property due to expense This July 6 1025 W M Housrey Sheriff
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