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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1927
Page
4
Miss Helen Day of New York has led the Searchlight, a Braille magazine for the blind, for eight years. Despite blindness and near deafness, she edits, proofs, and selects manuscripts from her Harlem office, with the bulky issues aiming to reach readers nationwide.
In a domestic aside a mother questions if John flew off in his airplane and the daughter confirms he departed in a rage. The exchange underscores a tense moment centered on the aviator beau and a heated departure.
Thirty six girls competed in a manicure scissors marathon from Vancouver to Auckland staged by the Australian cricket team. Each contestant cut four yards of tape with curved blades across six heats. betting ran high with bookmakers active before and during the race. The winner received a blue ribbon labeled for the event.
A South seaman signs as CO. P. to the Fareham board of guardians and repays $90 he owed. He says 20 years ago his widowed mother with four children sought relief from the board, and he felt degraded. He promises to repay his share with 20 percent interest.
Miss Katherine Brown of Belfast Maine designed and made her own engagement ring for her upcoming marriage to Conrad Lincoln Newton of Brockton Newton is a Brockton resident and Brown works as a designer and jewelry maker for a Boston firm the intricate solitaire setting showcases her talent
A magnetic device at General Electric in Schenectady New York separates iron and steel from Monel turnings. A rheostat lowers current to pick up iron and drop Monel, saving about $20000 yearly in scrap disposal per Popular Science Monthly.
The five largest members of the new Fat Men's club in Berlin boast an aggregate weight exceeding the target. A minimum weight of 350 pounds is required for membership and the heaviest member clears this by 84 pounds, per the Dearborn Independent.
A six months old sea lion climbed the port gangway of the navy hospital ship Relief and entered for treatment. Commander D M Wood reported the animal selected the ship and boarded by itself despite being chased off. A deep cut behind its left flipper was treated by the surgeon and the seal later swam away, returning later for a friendly visit.
A witty exchange shows a man praising a woman as pretty as a picture and the woman reacting with surprise saying well I’ll be hanged in a lighthearted moment.
Moscow holds the position of the seventh largest city with an estimated population of 2,050,090 at the start of the fiscal year on November 1, 1926. The text notes possible revisions from a forthcoming Soviet census and mentions a rise of 320,000 in foreign residents from 4,000 to 10,000 over the past year.
A Minnesota steam driven generating station on the Mississippi consumes 900 tons of coal daily. Its turbines produce large electrical power and require 368 000 tons of water each day for cooling, pumped from the river and returned afterward.
Improved packing and shipping of fresh fish to interior markets have boosted demand. Consumers eat more fish, merchants sell more, and fishermen fish more, placing the industry on a steadier, more prosperous basis than since the war according to Progressive Grocer.
William C. Durant, a major figure in American industry, says the vita phone or talking movie has the biggest possibilities of any invention he has seen in 40 years and also cites electric refrigeration as another significant development.
A large hunted deer exhausted after a chase by a dog sought refuge in a Thurman New York railroad section house. After the dog was driven off the buck calmly returned to the woods, unharmed.
Since the fall of the Hapsburg monarchy King Alfonso XIII of Spain holds undivided mastership of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The chivalric order, founded in 1429 at Bruges by Philip the good, was claimed by the Austrian branch in 1713. Now the Spanish Hapsburg line is supreme again.
Not sure about Dick Madge Dick asking for his father’s consent this afternoon. Nervous feelings are voiced. Mollie asks if the father will give consent and the response doubts Dick’s arrival.
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