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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1917
Page
1
The piece notes a long held link between the moon and fertility in people and crops. It cites a New York Medical Journal remark that market onions draw quality from aligning planting with lunar phases.
A musketry instructor in northern England spent an hour teaching recruits about a rifle. He explained parts and functions including the magazine bolt stock and barrel. A quick recruit replied that there were seven in the tin can and one up the spout.
A famed tenor in danger of losing his voice worked as a regular employee in a petroleum refinery. The experience helped him recover his singing ability and resume concert performances. The piece argues singing is an excellent preventive for consumption and can aid as well in some cases.
Doctor Sadger of Vienna cites somnambulists who under moonlight act out dream wishes while in deep sleep. The Medical Journal suggests moon-lore may hold the key to sleepwalking and related childhood and late life disorders.
Little Mary, ten, eyes the diamond rings on grandmother’s fingers and muses about a wedding gift. Her seven year old brother Bob retorts that Mary will receive one ring while the other goes to his wife, a playful family snapshot.
A Milwaukee Sentinel quip questions why a woman carries a fur piece strung at her neck showing a skunk’s head on one end and tail on the other while she gingerly holds a rabbit skin between finger and thumb at arm’s length.
Mrs Sharpe is praised for keen intuition and a remarkable nose for bargains. Mrs Gabby calls her a woman of wonder and notes her husband claims she can scent a sale three days before it’s advertised.
American Magazine contrasts deliberative officers with impulsive soldiers. It argues the blend forms a formidable military machine where calm planning and quick action complement each other.
A fragment features a family exchange about waking, chores, and stubborn routines. A fragment titled Orange Peel hints at domestic conversation and daily tasks as the day begins.
A reflection on boys needing heroes and the risk when a boy lacks a guiding figure in the community. The piece underscores the importance of positive role models for youth.
A courtroom joke features Mr Beetle and Miss June Bug. Mrs Apple Worm’s life is despaired of and contracted double pneumonia while living in cold storage.
A speaker complains that crowd noise from 200 diners chewing celery disrupts delivery. He asks to be placed on stage before celery is served to ensure his message is heard.
The quote from the Philosopher of Folly notes that many are so devout they despise anyone belonging to a church other than their own. The Cleveland Plain Dealer frames this as a commentary on religious prejudice and exclusivity.
In Hungarian weddings presents are given to poor couples to help them start a home. The bride’s friends show affection by baking cakes for the feast. There is no traditional wedding cake. guests receive a ring shaped sweet cake about ten inches in diameter.
The late Professor Lowell suggested Saturn does not rotate as a single body but has confocal layers rotating at different speeds. Professor Very notes that flow between layers would generate heat, slowing planetary cooling in other large planets as well.
A mother sends Fred to the post office but he loiters. The young girl nearby declares with emphasis that Fred is “hearless.” The brief scene captures a domestic moment of child mischief and parental prompting.
The London Telegraph notes Namiquipa in Chihuahua Mexico as the world’s largest city by area covering 444 square miles about 284000 acres. Its boundaries were set about 800 years ago by a charter from the Spanish king granting land to Castilian colonists.
Researchers report a process to convert spent tanbark, which makes up about 12 percent of a tree and has little value, into a profitable product. The bark is utilized in the manufacture of asphalt shingles, boosting its value.
The author argues that individuals must raise personal standards periodically to pursue nobler goals. A fixed ideal becomes a trap if not challenged, and true progress requires higher demands of purse, prayer, patience, purity, and power to avoid falling behind.
In a historic San Francisco trial a jury, witnesses, and spectators fled as chandeliers shook and the ceiling loosened. The judge calmed the room and urged continuing cross examination after a defense attorney cited divine displeasure at the witness’s lies and declined further questions.
The notice advertises a Georgia college program highlighting low annual expenses from 125 to 175 dollars covering board lodging books fuel lights and uniform. It praises climate mountain location freedom from city distractions obedience order regularity and self dependence taught to every student and notes a premier military department and cadet band under army officers supervision with broad courses plus agriculture mining engineering and commercial science. Dormitories are provided and supervision by officers is emphasized. For more information address Dr. G R Glenn president.
The push for shorter work hours traces to eighteenth century England and to the era around the second war with England in the United States. It rose with the factory system, which emerged here around 1812.
A humorous note from the New York Evening Mail describes a young man who holds the drug store phone for twenty minutes as he serenades his lover. Seventeen waiting customers endure the lengthy call while queued for use of the instrument.
A reflective quip notes that in Ex Change the saying about good intentions paving streets proves practical for paying purposes. The remark suggests pragmatic use of metaphorical material in a place named Hades or its counterpart, implying municipal costs and upkeep considerations.
A child Benny points to a halo on a picture of Elijah rising to heaven in a chariot of fire and says the prophet is carrying an extra tire. The quip captures a child’s comic misreading of sacred imagery.
No biblical account of a solar eclipse exists though prophets include allusions to the phenomenon. The note cites prophetic passages as containing indirect references rather than direct eclipse records.
The Enthusiast argues that internal fault finding wastes time and erodes the firm’s goals as members spend effort disparaging each other. A collective focus on unity is urged to preserve purpose and effectiveness.
A man who quotes famous sayings starts a joke about fooling people, quickly interrupted by another, who pivots to a lighter note about needing a vacation now and then.
A Pasadena farmer argues the carrot has many uses despite public scorn. He asserts the carrot is as useful as the letter h in rhetoric, a point echoed by the Houston Post in a humorous remark.
The piece discusses true artistic politeness as labor of love with no price. It cites Lord Stair and Louis XIV yielding precedence and power for mutual courtesy, illustrating magnanimity and reciprocal deference in royal gesture. The exchange shows both sides sacrificing prerogatives to honor courtesy.
Inscriptions from England and Indiana reveal witty epitaphs by an irrepressible punster. Sir James Fullerton dies fuller of faith than fears, while Daniel Tears notes seventy years of his wife’s tears. An organist cites a breezy epitaph about a merry life and a Merideth death. Thomas Huddlestone’s stone urges reflection on mortality.
A miner who died in Bolivia was placed in a coffin made from empty dynamite boxes. The locally supplied coffin lacked planing or painting and bore warnings like Keep cool and Use no hooks. The unusual kit reflects scarce timber and language barriers in the mining region.
The brown skinned warrior statue known as Kamehameha the Great stands between the old royal palace and the Judiciary building in Honolulu Hawaii. Illuminated nightly during the winter tourist season the statue becomes a premier civic center sight for travelers visiting the paradise of the Pacific.
List of city officers aldermen and trustees school board and county officers including representatives clerk sheriff tax collector and surveyor with named individuals and roles for a regional government directory listing.
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