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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1919
Page
4
An Indiana tale shows a lawyer declining a lucrative grafting position due to its later consequences. At a farm visit the boy learns parroting a hogs’ parsley diet leads to fattening and slaughter, prompting the father to equate parsley with graft and inevitable doom.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick critiques American speech in the Yale Review, arguing the nation has lost fine edges in English, favoring a frugal vocab and murmured tones. He claims independence from British roots leads to grunts and a democratic simplicity that narrows sentence and syllable.
The Dominion fisheries department reports Canada’s 1917 marketed produce at 52 million dollars, down from 89 million in 1916 and 26.9 million in 1915. It notes Canada has the world’s most extensive fisheries, with near shore catches of salmon lobster herring mackerel and most haddock and cod.
A Jimpson Junction traveler returns home bragging of a theft and a clever pocket stash. He hid two ten dollar bills inside his shirt pocket sealed with plaster and suspects a smooth theft occurred without removing his coat or vest. The tale echoes a Kansas City Star anecdote about sharp con men.
A Rear Admiral contrasts camouflage with republican ism and recalls a beggar story about blindness and a dog’s death. The tale explains a beggar’s need to pretend deafness and muteness after losing his dog, with a patron noting the change.
A new aluminum alloy named silverite combines aluminum with copper zinc and steel in varying proportions. The alloying of steel with aluminum appears startling but has proven successful, offering new materials possibilities.
Advisory on safeguarding wells and springs from human pollution. Excludes surface wash water, seals wells with tight concrete covers, and keeps privies, barns, and stables far from wells. Warns most shallow wells yield impure water. emphasizes proper pumping and water protection.
The closing section teaches that relationships with girls shape the nation, urging respect for women and self restraint. It emphasizes protecting girls from danger, maintaining physical health, and passing on a clean lineage, framed as duty to country and posterity. Georgia State Board of Health.
A long list of common groceries appears in the notice including salmons oysters crackers tomatoes pickles catsup olives honey canned fish fish flakes chile con carne mustard tea coffee sausage dukees dressing pepper sauce cocoa potted ham evaporated milk corn starch paste paste? prunes seedless raisins canned peaches and many other items.
A red amber collection presented to the British Museum reveals a remarkable array of insect forms. Prof. T. D. Cockerell identifies at least one new species and five new gene types, with many specimens packed in compact blocks. Amber sourced from Miocene Turina clay beds, likely washed from older deposits, shows nearly every major insect order except ants.
The city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great, seeks to shed its ancient past and modernize rapidly. Fate seems favorable as Cleopatra’s wonders fade with fire and sea, leaving trade and fashion dominated by prosperous Europeans absorbed in the stock market rather than romance.
W. T. Palmer of Soperton Ga describes relief from tired nerves and poor appetite after using Ziron Iron Tonic. The ad claims Ziron provides quick dependable strength, improves blood, nerves, skin and spirit, with druggist guarantee.
In Indianapolis a merchant’s wife grew gravely ill. After a brief improvement Teddy, seven, was allowed to visit and asked what he would do if his mother died. He replied that the girls could go to grandmother, and they and father would get a new wife.
The medical officer explains the influenza germ to a colored porter saying a creature that large would freeze to death in the cold as it would lack enough blood to keep body and soul together. The remark is noted by Frederic W. Ganzert in Judge.
A partial roster lists city government figures including Mayor Marshal, aldermen, trustees, and city school officials. It names officers such as the clerk of superior court, tax collector, tax assessors, and the county board of education with chairmen and the superintendent of county schools.
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