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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
1
City trustees and county officers listed with tax assessors and registrars. Church services across Baptist Methodist Presbyterian and Church of God including timings prayer meetings and Sunday School led by named pastors and superintendents.
The article explains how common medicines derive from unusual sources such as coal by products, limestone beds, coast cliff squill bulbs, aconite plants, camphor distillation, and glycerine from soap. It notes the shift from waste to valued by products in pharmaceutical history.
The manager rejects an old melodrama as outdated while the Playwright insists the script is updated He rewrites a third act eviction scene escalating back rent from 3 to 90 dollars aiming to fit current times.
A 3,000 year old tomb is unearthed at Catterline four miles from Stonehaven. James Scott struck a stone slab while digging, exposing three stone layers. Rev Fraser of Kinneff aided uncovering a burial of a fully grown man on his left side with an earthenware urn. Fraser believes remains are Bronze Age and may be 8,000 years old. urn largely preserved.
An inner tube for motor tires is described as valveless and inflated by a hollow needle. After inflation the needle withdrawal self seals the puncture with a contained substance. A rubber plug seals the rim opening before mounting the tire.
A 400 year old violin allegedly made by Gaspard Duiffo pruggar in 1522 comes into possession of Mre J. Wf. Wright of Keene New Hampshire. The artifact’s origin and ownership are documented in local records.
Descriptive passage notes bald eagles nesting on South Carolina islands. Harper’s Magazine quotes Herbert Ravenel Sass praising the nest as an ancestral mansion. A plantation nest 112 feet high has housed the same pair for over 50 years, likely to outlive many human structures.
Donald A. MacKenzie argues in Ancient Man in Britain that Stone Age Britons 25 000 years ago were modern in features and behavior. They wore contemporary-like attire would blend in modern cities and practiced trepanation and burial rites suggesting awareness of life and death. Green stone amulets found in mouths echo Egyptian burial practices from 3400 B C and earlier.
A Waitsburg farmer drove 1 700 turkeys to market by letting them walk the 18 miles over rough, hilly ground. The procession took over a week with birds foraging for grasshoppers ants seeds and occasional grain and meat. They arrived safely in good condition without casualties.
Indians on Annette Island Alaska plan to buy an updated fish leannery under an agreement that pays royalties of 3 to 10 cents per salmon to the Indians. Supplemental royalties will be reinvested to gain absolute title to the property within five years.
The federal government has paid about 750 million in compensation and life and disability claims to ex service men.
The subdirector of Paris based bureau of weights and measures used a fixed wire to record vertical changes in the Eiffel Tower. The device links a stake at the base to a register on the second platform about 380 feet up. Records show height varies with cloud, sun, or rain, though total rise is just over two and a half inches. Horizontal movements studied by army geography unit reveal summit oscillations near four inches in a 90 mile gale.
Professor Scammell of the Radium Institute in Dover argues coal forms from trees and vegetable matter carbonized by hot lava. He cites lava-fertilizer research and claims the bind in coal seams matches lava composition and can be converted into a nitrogen absorbing fertilizer to benefit mining and agriculture.
A German police dog fell through thin ice on the Connecticut River near Hartford. Several witnesses could not help until the dog’s playmate, another large dog, swam to the clear water and pulled the rescuer to edge. The saved dog surfaced and both dogs celebrated by barking along the riverbank.
The spoof involves two English girls arguing over their fathers achievements. One boasts of a bishop father, the other counters with a daily egg laying hen claim and the bishop’s daughter adds that her father lays a cornerstone weekly.
Forbes Magazine contributor Addington Bruce argues that personal magnetism is not a gift from the gods but arises from traits such as self confidence enthusiasm vigor and human sympathy. He stresses habitually thinking vigorously erect posture and sympathetic concern as core ingredients and warns that lack of sympathy weakens influence.
Police captain asks if the precinct is cleaned while a detective replies the area has been scoured completely. The exchange shows disciplined, thorough work and pride in a crime division.
Violent rains caused massive floods in Macedonia, southern Serbia, and Thessaly. Entire villages were swept away, thousands homeless, and a heavy death toll feared. Salonika Cayalla regions flooded, Koulakia Valmada isolated, villagers sought refuge on rooftops and trees as barges and cavalry aided rescue efforts. Cattle and sheep perished.
The Boy Scouts of Colorado Springs planted 4000 Douglas fir and 2000 pine seedlings in Pike National Forest under forest officers. Denver Scouts plan to plant hundreds of acres burned in prior years with operations to start in June. Seattle Scouts show forestry interest. city forest officers held merit conservation badge examinations.
A large stock of Army Munson last shoes is offered direct to the public at 2.75 dollars per pair. The 100 percent leather uppers feature bellows tongue and heavy double soles. Sizes 6 to 11, all widths. pay postman on delivery or money order. refunds issued if unsatisfactory.
Mrs. T. H. Jones announces a fresh stock of ginghams silk and dress fabrics tennis shoes and other items. Customers are invited to call inspect the new goods with ginghams priced 15 to 35 cents per yard and other items offered at reasonable prices.
National Bay State Shoe Company offers 122000 pairs of U S Army Munson shoes in sizes 6 4 to 12 from surplus stock. Shoes are solid leather dark tan with bellows tongue and waterproof. They retail at $6.00 but are offered to the public at $2.95 with delivery on payment or by money order. Refunds offered if not as represented.
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