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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1927
Page
4
The article traces the coconut from a pirate age novelty to a multi million dollar investment. White traders once scorned coconut products but in recent decades plantations expanded and demand grew. America alone imported about 250000 tons of coconut oil from the Philippines last year.
A humorous exchange centers on a woman described as “up in Fielding” and a puzzled friend who doubts she plays baseball. The remark plays on the town’s fielding jargon and a sly double meaning about the woman’s interests.
Insects from Texas and South America are used in Australia to combat prickly pear infestations on livestock ranges. Cochineal bug red spider moth larva and sucking bug attack the plant effectively causing collapse of the spiny growths. The insects are unlikely to attack crops or other vegetation and are reported to work well.
A car circling the earth at 60 mph would take about 1 days eight hours. Five years at the same speed would cover the sun's orbit. Circling Antares would take about 1370 years due to its diameter exceeding 273 million miles more than 300 times that of the sun.
The Altoona Kansas Tribune notes aFre donia lawyer who makes frequent country trips in a motor car. Each day at noon, while passing prosperous farmers, his car breaks down. After accepting a farmer’s dinner, the car then runs smoothly.
Mountain fruit growers in New York use moth balls to deter deer plundering their orchards. State game wardens advise they are distasteful to deer, offering a nonlethal method praised in Popular Science Monthly.
Dr Charles Mayo warns progress lags the human brain and the position will shift before we fully know it. The Chicago News notes his skeptical view on the pace of advancement and its implications.
A plan proposes a tunnel nine miles long beneath Mont Blanc to connect Italy and France with electrified railway links across western Europe. The project envisions new fast transit, boosted trade, and regional integration pending feasibility studies.
A bachelor visiting his college friend spends a week at the home where he meets the women dropping by for dinner. The four year old son humorously predicts more guests as the mother jokes about marrying him off, leaving the narrator amused and puzzled.
Eight year old Lucille Roberts narrowly escaped a deadly train incident at Mausdale Pennsylvania. While crossing a railroad trestle she lay flat on the tracks to avoid a jump and survived as a locomotive passed over her. Train crew later found her unhurt and continuing home.
A fallen tree in Browning Missouri killed a mother squirrel. Ray Johnson found two baby squirrels with closed eyes in a nest. An old mother cat that had just given birth to two kittens adopted the squirrels, caring for all four babies without treating them as outsiders.
N Gratz Jackson of Bath Maine picked a used book from a store window and found on the fly leaf the name N C Jackson his brother who was then a Bowdoin College student thirty eight years ago. The brother N C Jackson is now a physician in Vermont.
The piece notes Americans own 24,000,000 motor cars and contrast with the shoe buying rate, asserting Americans buy triple the shoes of Europeans. it hints that few pedestrians survive amid heavy car use.
The plan for the proposed Dar kin building in New York features two basement levels and 108 above ground, reaching a total height of 1,298 feet above street level.
Repair services offered for watches clocks pianos sewing machines jewelry and more advertised near Burns Barbour rhino with various shop items and tools.
French journalists surveyed the Vers dun battlefields and found numerous corpses and bone heaps left by years of rain and cold. They describe a 1914 poilu in preserved form, his heart exposed as dust replaced flesh, illustrating ongoing postwar cleanup and memory.
The junior class presents to UCLA Library a German 1751 volume titled Six Ingenious Books on True Christianity by Johann Arndts. Containing 1,854 pages with original wooden covers, it is among the few remaining copies. Reportedly the largest 18th century print by Hrenklin.
The largest arch bridge is under construction in Sydney Harbour Australia and is not expected to be completed until 1920. It will connect Dawes Point and Milson Point across a main arch distance of 1 675 feet, with total length 8 770 feet and a 170 foot headway for vessel passage at high water.
A morning scene in Louisville features a boss who breaks the last pencil, returns with 12 from the supply, and is approached by an elderly woman who presses a coin into his palm. She explains she helps the blind, not seeking a pencil.
The United States Department of the Interior bulletin reports Turkey will use Latin letters for written and printed tests in schools, replacing the Turkish Arabic-based alphabet under a recent government decision.
The Fort Wayne News-Sentinel notes a generational job quest as a man seeks work, his son pursues opportunities, and a young heir shows willingness to accept a position offering early advancement based on cultural qualifications.
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