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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
4
The article explains tea leaf reading as a polite form of sorcery, combining hydromancy and cere mancy with a ritual of turning the cup and interpreting leaf fragments. It traces hydromancy to ancient Egypt and mentions North African magicians using ink drops in a boy’s hand to mimic the trick.
The article notes that the real craft of engraving on apple and box woods is fading as the half tone process dominates. Milwaukee, once a center for this art in the nation, now has few practitioners. Those with prints from renowned blocks may later praise a Du Fresony remark on the blend of art and mechanical skill.
The United States Weather Bureau sub station at Greenland ranch Death Valley California records show Death Valley as the hottest area in the nation and possibly on earth. A 134 degree temperature on July 10, 1913 is believed to be the highest natural air temperature ever measured with a standard thermometer.
The lookout man on the liner Majestic stands 180 feet above water in clear weather and surveys about 900 square miles of ocean.
A concise note asserts there are enough motor vehicles in the United States to provide one ride for every person, implying widespread vehicle availability and high ownership. The statement frames a comparison between fleet size and population demand, reflecting midcentury automotive abundance.
The article discusses John Knox and his controversial 1558 tract The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women. It notes his stance against female rule, his exile by Bloody Mary, and his subsequent political-religious impact in Scotland under Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I.
Gibe and humor mix as locals tease about a man whose car broke down and a horse comes to tow him. The scene evokes small town wit and bargain transportation without gas costs. No injuries reported.
Milk can now be shipped hundreds of miles without spoiling. Glass-lined tanks, like vacuum bottles, have replaced milk cans. Tanks on trucks are cork insulated, limiting milk loss to under two gallons in 5 000 gallon capacity, with temperature rise under two degrees over 100 miles even when outside temperatures reach 88 degrees.
Senator Green of Vermont cites a New York Herald anecdote about a lawyer hired by the Pullman company. He allegedly tipped Pullman porters a dollar on each train ride and charged it to the company's expense account as a joke.
A cigar stand clerk notes varied methods customers use to open cigarette packs. He observes one tear a corner, another rip the top, a third unfold flaps then reset them, and a new buyer splits the pack lengthwise, pockets the contents.
The Barling bomber assembled in Dayton Ohio will be the largest plane built weighing 20 tons with a 2000 gallon gas tank. It will use six Liberty motors, require a ten man crew for navigation and two pilots to operate dual controls.
The 17th century saw hostility to tea in Holland and coffee in Great Britain. Critics ridiculed tea as hay-water and condemned coffee for domestic use and medicinal aims. The era also linked chocolate to heightened passions, with calls to curb monk consumption.
Miss KK a nutrition specialist at Colorado Agricultural College advises dietary self-control. The guidance emphasizes smaller portions at each meal, slower eating, minimizing highly seasoned and acidic foods, one lighter daily meal, no between meal snacks, and limiting starches and rich fats and sweets.
Diary entry cites 335 840 words written in the year and 224 articles and stories. It notes four installments of The Gates of Wrath published, plus Polite Farces, unfinished short stories, a 55 000 word serial for Tillotson, and drafts of a Staffordshire novel Apna Tellwright. Characters include Arnold Bennett and references to Trollope.
In Detroit a group of girls boycotts Mina five to pressure her to revise her language for better play. Mina says she enjoys playing with the boys who have more fun, while moms report profanity influenced her speech.
Laboratory experiments reveal a simpler cheaper method to extract helium from natural gas. The United States government has stored more than 2,000,000 cubic feet of helium and is producing about 15,000 feet a day at the large Fort Worth plant.
Boston Transcript notes an English writer declaring poverty is a curse of the poor and reports Bonar Law saying if war is inevitable it must come.
An eastern legend retold by Lord Lytton describes King Solo Mon dying in worship as Azrael’s touch silences all. A small brown mouse gnaws the king’s ebony staff, causing the jeweled ruler to collapse and turn to ashes, a golden crown recovered from the dust.
A newly opened coal deposit five miles east of Gilette Wyoming is claimed to be the third largest in the world. The vein runs 95 feet deep and spans 800 acres. Only two larger fields exist in France and Australia, but the Gilette field is said to be uniform in character, unlike the others.
Mrs. Buena McFarland of North Carolina details relief from severe female weakness. She suffered bearing down pains, nervous unrest, and weight loss until Cardui and a Birthday Almanac remedy led to strong improvement. The narrative cites many similar testimonials over forty years of use.
A man reveals he told a woman about her husband with another woman and the wife says she already knew. She implies her husband anticipated the news and phoned it to her before he could be confronted.
A judge states that clothes make the man but not the aesthetic dancer, emphasizing how attire does not define artistic impression or skill in dance. The remark contrasts appearance with true craft in performance.
The picturesque sidelights of Paris fade as the sandwich men resign claiming the job is lazy. A proactive worker invents a night illuminated board on a stick. Street scavenging for cigar and cigarette butts also ends as leftovers are swept away.
The United States adopts a numeric system to denote steel qualities and sizes replacing lengthy specifications. The method already exists in Switzerland Germany and other European nations as a standardized approach to ordering steel.
John McNee claims he can judge speed without a speedometer by noting how his lamps, mud guards, and bones rattle at ten fifteen and twenty miles an hour, in a humorous exchange with Jim. The anecdote uses exaggerated sensory cues to illustrate a folk method of speed estimation.
The article notes that investment in the U S automotive sector equals twice the total capital of all national banks in the United States, highlighting the industry's scale and financial impact.
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