23 Jun 1911
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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1911
Page
1
Harper's Weekly recounts the shift from hand to machine ropemaking sparked by a rope walk inventor who designed machinery to create a single long rope for the Atlantic cable repair. John Good proposed the plan, built the gear, and produced a 17 000 foot rope enabling a successful transatlantic telegraphic link.
The article describes the ichneumon fly and its remarkable egg laying instrument. The female possesses three slender filaments forming a borer that can penetrate hard wood to lay a single egg. The device is extremely delicate yet capable, bending with a breath of air and extending several inches.
Herbert seeks the widowed Mrs Desmond permission to marry her daughter. He begins a heartfelt proposal but collapses into a tender embrace as she joyfully grants consent, longing for a steadfast man to be a father to her beloved daughter.
In a classroom exercise the teacher copies the old proverb A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse and asks students to rephrase it. Several attempts appear, including a verbose version about a spasmodic movement of the optics and a slight tilt of the head toward a horse lacking sight.
In Harper’s Weekly, Jorrocks chides Stipson for not worrying about a note due last Sunday. Jorrocks, acting as indorser, reveals he already paid the debt, while Stipson shrugs it off saying he discounted it long ago.
The item reports city property return deadlines next Friday and describes local happenings from Dahlonega and nearby areas. It mentions visitors enjoying cool nights, a clothing sale, a professor’s travel, a tax receiver’s praise for the local paper, a missing gold watch reward, and nearby attractions like Cane Creek Falls. Additional notes cover road survey changes and a humorous anecdote about religious discourse and a mule on the sanitary line.
The New Orleans mint to be abandoned after July 1. Seventy teachers attended the Lawrenceville Institute session. A Boston court case saw a preacher plead guilty to technical fraud. Dr Broughton claims Atlanta dress styles originate from hell. The Main battleship foremast, weighing 10 tons, shipped to New York. Montula Mills Alabama shut due to high cotton prices. Macon jury declined to convict a prohibition violator who was a clerk. Savannah oil tank project declared largest in the state, capacity one million gallons. A Atlanta journal notes people bathing eyes in the hot sun. four appeared last week, more expected. Two white Macon women fight over a box of snuff. one paid $168.75, the other $10.75. Macon officials sample liquor before trials to verify purity, affecting sentences. An editor urges that education be industrial to curb vagrancy and promote work. A Cordele Rambler editor criticizes loafing youths, urging labor and work ethic and appealing for job opportunities. Chief Mobley threatens action if loafers persist.
F. Niven urges farmers to cultivate after each rain to save moisture and kill weeds. Shallow cultivation prevents root damage and helps break moisture-eating tube channels. Mulch and litter layers also reduce evaporation during a regional drought.
The historian George Bancroft told with gusto of trotting to school in Massachusetts when an old gentleman who was early blind thought geese were children. He threw pennies to the flock and cried God bless you, my children, as they gobbled along Levi Lincoln street.
A Neodesha Register editorial urges towns to identify their strongest enterprise and promote it with community effort. It cites Sterl ing Bulletin on broad merchant participation and the Hennesse e Clipper advice to buy from distant suppliers to avoid strengthening local businesses.
An agriculturist notes a vast shift in farming with machines that cut thrash and sack wheat, contrasting the old cradle method. A visitor acknowledges progress but questions whether corn is still stored in a crib.
Propitious proposal offers readers a large amount of material for a small price. For fifty cents subscribers can receive the Tri-Weekly Constitution delivered to their address from now until January 1, 1912, plus one free magazine choice among Uncle Remus Magazine McCall's Southern Poultry Journal Home and Farm Southern Ruralist or Southern Cultivator.
The town of La Gruyere displays abundant window boxes filled with potted plants brightening its 15th and 16th century houses. Geraniums dominate with nasturtiums carnations and hydrangea appear occasionally. Boxes are grated with a picket-like side and placed on window sills or wall brackets. Storms prompt closing blinds or bringing pots indoors.
A 19th century Norfolk episode recalls three brothers who ducked an old woman with a black cat and Sunday dress, tossing her into a pond. Witnesses say others cried out to save her as she sank toward the bottom.
A local charity vaudeville show ends with a prank as a young man throws a cabbage head bouquet onto the stage. The performer reads a card and courtsy notes Mr. Edward Morgan enjoyed the act while lamenting the heady gift as a joke gone too far.
Brass and bronze are copper alloys. brass mixes copper with zinc while bronze blends copper with tin. These metals hold deep historical and scientific interest, with copper among the first discovered metals and antiquaries noting a bronze age marked by widespread use of tin-containing implements.
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