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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1919
Page
1
In a terse exchange, Mickie refuses Michael OBrien permission to ride to the train for new paper items. He cites attending church with Mickie during Ja e week. The confusion suggests limited cooperation and potential schedule constraints.
Dr Sultan Fenwick lectures at the Institute of Hygiene on insatiable hunger. Case reports include a girl who ate seven times more than family members, devouring raw cod and candles, another who gnawed leaves, a boy who ate all his clothes, and a woman who raided a dairy consuming eggs butter bread milk and wine.
In Calcutta Bombay and Madras European styles dominate with Indo-Saracenic influences. English shops carriages and motors reflect a recreated English life while Indian power figures rise in Bombay and Calcutta. The piece notes limited contact between Asian towns and the European city imposed upon them.
The article notes that several famed composers had unusually large appetites. It mentions Handel dining alone at a restaurant ordering a meal for three and Haydn dining alone, reputedly eating enough for five ordinary appetites.
In Kr xville Tennessee Miss Million gains notice for a novel art form involves carved dried apple heads in lifelike faces. She draws from real mountain folk for inspiration and uses a special varnish to preserve the finished pieces.
A speaker protests printing a harsh attack in the paper. The speaker mocks a rival and questions the need to publish a strike against the boss. The mood is defiant and critical of sensational gossip in journalism.
Miss Libby Oppenheim of the American Zionist medical unit distributed a shipment of toys to kindergartens schools orphanages and two children’s hospitals in Jerusalem and Jaffa. The scene at the Jerusalem girls’ orphanage showed children hiding eyes then bursting with joy as toys were revealed.
In 1919 readers note multiple centenaries including Queen Victoria, Admiral Rodney, W J Poster, John Campbell Sharp, Arthur Hugh Clough, Charles Kingsley, Donald Cargill, and George Eliot. The piece surveys notable births and commemorations across literature, politics, and education.
A London Christian World writer recalls past occupants of Spurgeon’s tabernacle and a 30 year old incident with American preacher A C Dixon. Dixon’s father praised Spurgeon, who advised studying at home leading Dixon to seek a different path, yet Dixon later upheld the tabernacle’s tradition after following Spurgeon and A G Brown.
A German expert compiled metal use statistics from the war. He states that iron and steel Germany used in 45 months could form a ring around the globe with a meter weighing 80 hundredweight. He notes potential wall lengths at front lines and claims weekly gun output exceeded Franco-Prussian War totals. The point drawn is Germany’s prewar market dominance enabled such production.
The excerpt promotes boldly risking ventures to grow through failures. It contrasts persistent, decisive effort with hesitation and overcautious weighing of gains versus losses, labeling the latter as predestined failure due to a negative mindset.
The Mirdites are described as a remarkable Balkan tribe in Albania. They have remained Christian, resisted Muslim influence, and claim a pure Aryan language closely resembling classical Greek and Latin. They are famed as Albania’s finest fighting men and a fiercely independent people.
A reflection on the power of kindness over assumed superiority. It argues that great souls can be gentle and patient, moving obstacles like rootlets moving stones, while firmness may be used without offense. The piece cautions some men cannot reach this balance.
Vice-Consul Charles J. Pisar reports from Cape Town that Zululand has begun operations at Amatikulu with a new American gin. Capacity is 1,500 to 1,600 pounds of lint per eight hours, equating to about 244 tons of seed cotton. The project is seen as pivotal for Zululand cotton growers and government experts anticipate rapid development.
A Balzac cane famed for its lavish jewels and a gold knob holding a lady’s hair. Observers say Balzac used the jeweled cane as a symbol of vanity and wealth, never appearing in public without the stick.
California has become a winter refuge for cattle and sheep as a cost efficient move for better feed and lambing outcomes. The shift halves lamb losses during bad weather and aligns with rising early lamb prices, per Popular Mechanics.
A French writer notes playing cards were used in Belgium in 1379, with earlier East uses, while common belief holds they first appeared in Italy around 1470 in Venice, challenging the popular 1892 France origin myth.
The author argues that oratory remains a lasting art and will endure. Historic voices like Demosthenes Cicero Paul Webster and Ingersoll are cited as enduring memories guiding future public speech and emotion in the forum of the human heart.
A correspondent links civilian clothes to soldiers catching colds after demobilization. Sir Ernest Shackleton notes that despite Antarctic cold, colds appeared after unwrapping a bale of clothing from England. He suggests microbes latent in packed garments caused the outbreak.
The longest British strike began at Lord Penrhyn's slate quarries in Bethesda in October 1900 and lasted until November 1908. It halted wages for over three years causing substantial losses, and shifted Britain from importing slate to importing more than 1,200 tons weekly as foreign slate filled the market.
Baker states that many accused as sinecures are in fact doing substantial work while the truly credited person may not be the driver. He shares a quip about a secretary’s stenographer being the real “live wire” behind the Bluffville chamber of commerce, challenging visible roles vs. real contributions.
A horticulture experiment uses mercury vapor lamps to accelerate seed germination to under half usual time. Plants grown under artificial light show stronger color, vigor, and an unusual multiplication of stem down. Shadowed plants remain comparatively bare. Practical results reported.
George N. Cole argues in the Monthly Weather Review that the scorching heat sweeping St Pierre during Mont Pelee and other eruptions arose from rapid air compression around the explosion, not from hot gases released by the volcano itself.
A reflection contrasting true worth with outward show. Montaigne asks why people praise strength and skill in animals, like a horse or hound or hawk, yet fail to value a person for his essential nature rather than adornment.
The Vienna Journal reports rural Austrians doubted Crown Prince Rudolph's 1889 Meyerling death. A surviving coffin, wartime rumors, and the postwar belief tie Rudolph to Woodrow Wilson, with optimism that Wilson as Rudolph would save Austria.
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