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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1927
Page
1
A steam heated river near Manhattan remains ten degrees warmer due to nine East river plants using condensers water. Since 1900 the river has rarely frozen, suggesting vast energy waste and a challenge for engineers to reuse the heat for practical uses.
A church community confronted a habitual thief among members. After a church dinner a woman with small dish of unsweetened apple sauce gathered leftovers from tables. Later the kitchen staff replaced her portions with breadcrusts chicken bones and other refuse to deter further stealing.
German surgeon Dr. H. Haebler invents headlights for scalpels and other instruments. The compact electric lamp, bean sized, wires supply current and the device is heat sterilizable like surgical tools, aiding operations in deep body cavities where room lighting is insufficient.
Quartermasters of the army will add care of nurseries to their duties. Infants in this plan are trees, shrubs, plants and other growing things for landscape gardening at their posts. The program ties into the army housing scheme and relies on each quartermaster for funding and implementation.
The first of two great reflectors with a four foot aperture built 139 years ago by Sir William Herschel for his 40 foot telescope has been found. It emerged during alterations to an old cottage adjoining the observatory at Slough England where Herschel made his discoveries.
Julia Ward Howe awoke in the Willard Hotel after a Confederate maneuver interrupted a pageant. As she rested her mind formed the verses and by morning she had scribbled the Battle Hymn of the Republic, inspired while cheering soldiers with friends after the scene.
Path finder Magazine recalls the Lost battalion a 550 strong detachment led by Maj Charles W Whittlesey cut off near Charlevaux Argonne forest from Oct 3 to Oct 7 1918. After relief only 194 survived 107 killed many wounded Whittlesey vanished at sea after the war.
English novelist Ford Madox Ford, lecturing in America, laments his ongoing struggle. A Columbia sophomore asks for business advice after graduation and Ford replies with a bitter joke: try magazine writing.
J. F. Burke a young New York bank clerk arrived at Southampton aboard the Aquitania after a voyage that made him famous as the young gentleman in the dress suit. He traveled with dress clothes only and did not hear the ship’s departure call when the Aquitania left New York.
Kathleen Norris argues extravagance is a national vice, visible in slum kitchens where waste includes long kettle boils after teapots fill and discarded scraps. She notes stale bread, old clothing, and remnants tossed into garbage, reflecting a social failure to provide for the poor.
The memory of Franz Josef Mohr and Franz Gruber who created Stille Nacht will be honored with a monument in Oberndorf Bavaria near Oberammergau. Mohr wrote the words in 1825 and Gruber composed the melody. Funds are being raised by selling a brochure on the carol’s history by Dr Weinmanns of Regensburg.
A San Francisco mint official notes that every employee earns far more daily than Tenry Ford, with average output valued at $600,000 per day. He explains that making money looks easy using gold copper a smelting furnace and a stamping machine.
Nicholas Pasquale of Vineland New Jersey tried to trap a milk thief by putting liniment into a milk bottle on his doorstep. The bottle disappeared and a nearby house raised an alarm when a boy shouted Take it away pointing to the bottle.
The New Shoreham Fire Department in R I with two thousand feet of hose covers 1014 square miles and can reach every house. Block Island’s ponds and Atlantic surrounds explain the easy firefighting reach for this coastal town.
Prof. H. A. Wadsworth of the University of California reports overhead sprinkler irrigation currently targets high value crops on premium land. The study notes this method yields costly results and is not yet practical for broad orchard use.
The article describes show window films as a new advertising device drawing crowds to a corner drug store. Automated reels run continuously on a two foot screen with daylight shielding and no operator. The system includes a rolling film with automatic switching to replay scenes, sometimes using eight reels for larger displays.
Bobbie and mother laugh at a parrot in a cage that says it comes from Brazil. The child insists the bird cannot understand Hogglish, prompting gentle correction from the mother.
Pearl merchants in London are perturbed by Vienna reports that scientists have found a way to distinguish genuine pearls from so called Japanese pearls. Experts can detect imitation pearls, but Japanese pearls with a nucleus are harder to tell from solid pearls.
Mrs. Philomine Bellefeuille of Biddeford Maine celebrated her eighty fourth birthday with a large gathering. She leads two five generation lines and many descendants attended including children grandchildren and multiple great grandchildren.
Taxicabs in metropolitan areas cover 45 000 to 50 000 miles annually or about twice around the world. Some motor hacks in busy city parts average 5 000 miles per month and run three shifts of drivers. A typical family car averages 1 000 to 8 000 miles yearly.
The Salvation Army plans a new leper colony on the Ganges near Benares, prompted by a suggestion from King George of Hagland. The project aims to establish a settlement to aid those afflicted with leprosy in India.
Dr. R L Hunter will be in Dr Head's office to perform dental work on the Wednesday after the first and third Sundays.
Physicians endorse purification as nature’s foundation of health. Cleanse the system with Calotabs taken weekly for several weeks, promising renewed vitality. A family package with directions sells for 35 cents at drugstores.
An oil company drilled a deep well at Shiprock New Mexico that yielded no oil but discovered abundant fresh water. The company abandoned the hole and handed it over to the Navajo community for a water well.
The Indianapolis News reports a Midford Maine birth to Mr and Mrs Emile Turgeon featuring a boy with 12 toes and 10 fingers plus thumbs. The baby is healthy and is the fourth child in the family.
Eli Gump of South Squim asks Amzi Utter how long they have been married. Amzi replies seven years and remarks on discovering wear in a cheap suit after marriage.
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