Shaw Dodges Autographs With Printed Postcards
George Bernard Shaw now signs requests with printed postcards. His note explains that his correspondence has increased in recent years, forcing him to give up writing letters or any other writing.
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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1925
Page
1
George Bernard Shaw now signs requests with printed postcards. His note explains that his correspondence has increased in recent years, forcing him to give up writing letters or any other writing.
A drugstore advertisement urges readers to cleanse the body with Calotabs as a path to health. It promotes a family package with directions for a several week course and gives prices 35 cents for full package and 10 cents for trial. The copy cites physicians endorsing Purification of the System as Nature’s foundation of Perfect Health.
A French returnee who spent years in Indo China recounts warnings from Angkor temple priests about desecration and divine punishment. He cites deaths of Lord Northcliffe and Maurice Long, and notes Maurice Ludely's recent Saigon death after risky temple trespass. The piece frames the curse as divine vengeance.
Aberdeen Washington bird lover Samuel Benn related that a wren twice failed to raise a family after wild bees took over her nest in a birdhouse. She laid eggs but no hatchlings as bees formed honeycomb over the eggs. In a later season the bees occupied the nest again, destroying hopes for renewal.
Popular Science Monthly says gypsum mixed with cin ders gravel crushed stone or furnace slag forms a fireproof curbing material for one and two story houses. A lab test showed a 6 inch gypsum concrete wall withstood 1700 degree heat for an hour without interior warming.
Daniel, bashful and bold, escorted a girl home from church. At breakfast his father teased asking if he brought a girl home. Daniel confessed yes but revealed confusion, mistaking Rosie Haven for Mary Bates when the two paused at a street turn. neither spoke and no voice clarified.
A fragment shows Too True Lady Diana with a survey of a Trapt company while a superrealist reads free verse and Theo dore Dreiser discusses literary longings and money. The exchange features Dreiser’s gravely framed remark on universal literary craving and ends with a muddled quotation.
North Georgia Agricultural College in Dahlonega offers tuition free and moderate fees with board at 144 dollars yearly. The college emphasizes careful student life supervision, military training, and awarding standard college degrees. For catalog and information address the college.
Brooksher Realty Co of Dahlonega Georgia advertises a 25 room hotel with electric lights and a well finished dwelling at reasonable prices. Also farm and unimproved lands for sale near the Atlanta Asheville Highway. Write or see M Brooksher, Manager, Dahlonega Georgia P D Box 74.
In Cinderford Baptist Sunday school Forest Dean England about 50 pupils are aged sixty to ninety four among 800 scholars. Mr Brobyn the oldest male member attends from a lodging house and Mrs Mary Morris the oldest woman is eighty four and has attended Sunday school treats for 63 straight years.
A Hawaii commission travels to China to gather biological parasites intended to curb the June beetle, a pest causing extensive damage to crops and gardens. The move aims to naturalize predators to reduce beetle outbreaks and protect agriculture.
Foreigners staying in France for more than two weeks are now required to pay a tourist tax of about $14. The levy targets longer stays and applies to all resident non citizens.
Maj. R. W. Schroeder, former U S Army chief test pilot, argues commercial flying is already safe. He compares civilian flight deaths to mule-related deaths in Missouri, noting eight deaths nationwide versus eighty in Missouri.
Berlin's motor vehicle count grew from 21 153 in July 1923 to 44 000 by end of 1924. The city with over 4 million residents now records eight motor accidents daily, with 84 fatalities and 1 784 injuries last year.
An explorer currently on the Amazon River in Brazil transmits reports by wireless to the Royal Geographical Society in London, detailing discoveries and observations from the expedition.
A past era favored hagglers over fixed prices until a savvy trader began marking all goods with fixed prices. He believed customers would prefer transparent pricing and refunds, avoiding quarrels over value and refunds for unsatisfactory merchandise.
The text presents a fragmented, archaic exchange likely from a stage dialogue or lyric. It features a speaker claiming to idolize another while questioning whether money suffices to keep them idle, implying a social tension between affection and financial need.
Gen Hugh Drum jokes at a Washington dinner that soldiers do not love war. He compares a fisherman who values the sport of fishing to a soldier’s attitude, then tells a tale where a village idiot dismisses a two-pound catch and retrieves it for more sport.
British scientist Clements notes that clumsiness stems from misfiring eye impulses as the brain interprets signals. He cites air pilots in wartime who failed to land as support for his claim that precise hand tasks depend on accurate sight processing.
William J Bryan praised progress and prohibition as steps toward modernity, highlighting railroads telephones and radio. He noted the rise of the automobile and the passing of the horse, lamenting the disappearance of the village blacksmith under the chestnut tree, a quip from the audience recalling the buzz wagon.
Blacksmith Sohn Gaddis will be found at the old Bill Anderson Stand ready to do all kinds of blacksmithing. Horse shoeing a specialty. Bring us your work.
A compact notice promotes owning a personal telephone at home for a few cents daily. It emphasizes peace of mind for neighbors and suggests using the service to order magazines and newspapers, listing R. C. and F. L. Meaders as the contact.
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