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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1922
Page
1
A dense roster lists aldermen trustees and county officials including City School Board, Roads and Revenues chairmen, notaries and justices, and various county boards. It also notes Baptist Methodist Presbyterian and Church of God services with pastors, schedules, and Sunday school times.
A London answer recounts an old warship incident off West Africa where a dense mist swept the crew and outbreak of influenza followed. Treatments cited include eladhona bark and ammonia. misattributed links with malarial cures appear. Discussion notes that many victims were male and in active years, with theories about hat removal and daily labor.
A Forbes Magazine excerpt argues cautious, step by step progress helps avoid financial danger. It contrasts default distrust with optimism about neighbors and emphasizes taking credit for good work, not denying it, to shape perception. It ends with a childlike reference to growth.
The text describes Ecuadorian bargaining practices with a playful note on the common measure of value a rock weighs a pound for trade. Merchants start high and expect to concede, often asking for the last price after the initial figure, with ponchos cited as an example and 25 sucres offered before a concession.
A small girl on a hotel lobby couch swings her feet as a kindly lady asks why she cannot place them on the floor. The girl explains by gesture that keeping feet on the floor means no couch, and growing is the only solution, a simple exchange that ends with the girl continuing to swing her feet.
A discussion of fox speed and cunning contrasts English and American foxes. The fox often slows or sits to assess a pursuing hound, then gauges the chase to outwit the slower tracker. Vets and hunters note the fox’s natural cunning rather than mere speed.
Ruskin argues that pine forests appear ragged to common eyes but are green and compact. He describes pines as pyramid shaped with soft, inconspicuous trunks, forming bright glades and cheerful light through their green carpet and shadows. The quotes come from Modern Painters by John Ruskin.
The article recalls Hanukkah, the Feast of Dedication described as the Feast of the Maccabees. Instituted circa 165 B C by Judas Maccabeus and elders, it commemorates purifying the Temple and restoring the altar with eight days of lights and songs, symbolizing Jewish liberty.
A village sanitarium uses daily sun baths as ancient health therapy. Proponents claim sunlight boosts well being and treats disease, urging exposure in the morning with minimal clothing for skin bathing.
An old New York suburb farmer bequeathed 16 acres, one barn, and a cow to his son. The son kept the cow as a keepsake. ten years later, land valued at 192000 would have incurred about 15000 in taxes, but the cow enabled farm classification reducing taxes to about 1600 over the decade.
The gingko native to China was never truly wild again after cultivation. It has been saved from extinction by human effort and now thrives in temperate zones, especially the northern United States, where it is favored for park planting. Its two lobed leaves give it the name maidenhair tree.
A brief humor caption from American Legion Weekly features Liam and a character musing about the dead returning to life. The gag hinges on the graveyard setting and a light exchange about wishes, ending with a yawning remark.
In January the steamship Trafalgar, ten miles from Wolf rock, heard a cannon like report and saw a fiery body with a 30 to 40 foot tail strike the water. A water plume rose as the ship caught fire with violet engine-room light and sparks. The wheel mate suffered a shock, compasses demagnetized, and the vessel struggled to reach Falmouth. Likely a strong lightning flash caused the water strike and electric sea phenomena.
An English traveler recalls a Home for Freed Slaves in northern Wangeria where women and children awaited disposal by matrimony. The narrator acted as a marriage broker, approving a Maussa soldier with a commander’s note and scribbling a request to the Lady Superintendent to grant him a wife.
George H Corsan swimming adviser at the Brooklyn Y M C A argues a cold shower is unnecessary and even harmful. He says people should warm up thoroughly before swimming and take the plunge for relief rather than chill the body with a cold shower before entering the pool.
The article traces the history of the Union Jack, noting how the flag evolved through blends of St. George’s red cross, St. Andrew’s white diagonal cross, and St. Patrick’s red cross. It outlines 1606, 1706, and 1801 additions leading to the present Union Jack amid debates over Irish peace.
A Marine sergeant lax on sending monthly support to his wife Nell prompts a bleak note about the family facing poverty. He replies with humor, asking Nell to wait until his discharge so they may go to the poorhouse together.
A three person family on Palmyra Atoll, 700 miles south of Honolulu, was found by the eagle boat No. 4 after an aerial survey. They sought to start a copra plantation. the ill woman went to Honolulu for medical care. The island has no regular communication with the world.
The house wren is described as highly eccentric in nest site selection by a Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture. It favors hollow branches or knotholes and, when cleverer, uses old boots, hats, copper pots, or tomato cans. Even a gardener’s hanging coat can become a preempted nesting site.
Athens reports Dr. Keramopoullos finds two eras at Thebes House of Cadmus. Early 1600–1400 B C fresco fragments show fashion damse ls and vases. later 1400–1100 B C ruin chambers yield stirrup vases with Minoan script inscriptions. Cadmean script may reflect language divergence between Crete and Greece mainland.
A Wellington dispatch notes the Bank of New Zealand began on October 16 1861 and has grown from £500 000 capital to about £6.2 million. Subscribed capital exceeds £8.9 million with £1.5 million reserve fund and £861 275 in undivided profits. The 1894 crisis saw Prime Minister Richard Seddon pass an Act to raise capital to £2 million and guarantee interest to avert a banking collapse nationwide.
A century plant in the New York Botanical Garden has flowered after twenty years challenging the common belief that such plants bloom only once per century. The piece notes widespread misinformation and conflicting statistics about human brain development and questions whether accurate thinking is possible despite skeptical literature.
Kilbur Scott demonstrated artificial Rochelle salt crystals that reproduce sound. Deaf individuals could wear a crystal behind the ear linked to a chest soundbox. vibrations transmitted to the ear drum would enable hearing.
A discussion notes that scientists using a device from an Indian savant watched a plant grow and studied the beating of a plant’s equivalent to a heart. It claims plants grow slowly, feel distress when boiled, and squirm as cabbage roots die in hot water, though without protest.
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