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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1927
Page
1
A Chicago Daily News clipping describes a letter from England to a Chinese man in Shanghai detailing Western manners abroad. The writer claims Westerners live weeks without rice, eat large chunks of meat, bathe daily yet smell of sheep, and sit with women served last, arguing such customs unsettle a civilised observer.
The article notes rapid advances in electrical communication from Morse to Marconi and Bell to new transatlantic voices. It observes growing astonishment fading as each milestone becomes routine and forecasts weekly miracles becoming expected in electrical science.
A London portrait painter argues that women are indistinguishable across social stations. A reporter tests the claim by strolling London streets for an afternoon and confirms his views.
A Worcester gathering marked a birthday cluster on January 22 with John Comden aged ninety, Hermenegilde La Frenaye sixty, Louis La Frenaye twenty five, and Arthur Joubaue six, spanning four generations from the Comden and La Frenaye families.
The town Saskatoon in Saskatchewan owes its name to a handful of bright red saskatoon berries presented by John N. Lake of Toronto in 1882. The berries inspired the name for the Temperance Colonization site. a few houses appeared in 1888 and a post office opened October 1, 1884.
Mary Williams of Omaha once aided in a York Nebraska hotel fire where 75 circus performers were stranded. James A Bailey awarded her a life pass to the circus for her bravery, and she has since traveled to Philadelphia Pittsburgh Battle Creek Lansing Chicago Omaha and other cities.
Under the British League of Empire program, 114 teachers from Canada Australia South Africa and New Zealand teach in Great Britain this year. An equal number from England and Scotland have gone to replace them temporarily.
The National Bureau of Casualty and Safety Underwriters says half the toll of child fatalities from accidents could be reduced through school safety education. The bureau has established three university fellowships worth 1000 dollars each for safety education studies.
The demand for ham has increased more rapidly than for any other meats since 1913. The average retail price now stands 223 percent of the 1913 price, compared with 202 percent for pork chops and 191 percent for bacon.
The share of electric power from water and from fuel remained steady in the United States. In 1924 water power accounted for 36.1 percent and fuel 63.9 percent. In 1926 the proportions were 36.7 percent water and 63.3 percent fuel.
An English poultry company has constructed the globe’s largest chicken house, stretching 1,000 feet in length and reaching six stories. Each floor accommodates 12,000 fowls, making it a monumental poultry facility of unprecedented size.
The all Russian accordion contest ended as a sensational success leading to similar national instrument contests for guitar mandolin and balalaika. Russian villages overflow with skilled players though authorities have yet to recognize these instruments.
A giant dirigible under construction at Friedrichshaven Germany will provide luxury travel between Spain and South America. It will carry 100 passengers plus luggage crew and mails, serving as a floating premier hostelry for international travelers.
The closing of the throne room and imperial living apartments at the winter palace in Leningrad, the Alexandrovsky palace in Detskoye Selo where Czar Nicholas spent his last days, has made the site the main draw for visitors curious about Russian royalty.
Aluminum railway cars are being built in Germany. Newly completed trains are made entirely from aluminum alloyed with lithium, a metal lighter than aluminum by about twenty percent and said to increase tensile strength.
Naturalist William Beebe reports in Liberty that Borneo hosts many flying creatures. He notes birds bats insects and surprising aerial antics by squirrels lizards frogs and even snakes. He highlights a large furry creature nicknamed the flying lemur or flying weasel monkey, a distant mole–shrew relative.
An 1838 geological survey note cited by Prof. Paul B. Sears describes Europe and Africa sending wheat to Eastern markets while shipping refuse bones to Britain and France. The bones allegedly from Waterloo battlegrounds and German and Italian bone caves were used to make bone earth for sugar refiners and other processes to remedy soil deficiency.
Five years after a gift to Mme Curie valued at $100000, workers in Paris prove a method to guard patients during radium therapy. A dense metal sheath and multiple gauze layers surround the radium tube to filter harmful rays, reports Popular Science Monthly.
A large opossum created excitement in Dallas business district as it wandered Elm Street against traffic. Patrolman Pinkerton pursued, the creature blocked by a theater doorman who demanded a ticket. Caught between officer and doorman it fled to fire department HQ and escaped again later that night.
Discoverers unearth a six foot long crocodile skeleton at 50 feet depth in Oxford clay at Fastwood brickyards near Peterborough England. The snout is missing and four paddles of three feet each remain. Likely a pliosaurus ferox and estimated at one to two million years old.
The Lebanon Reporter hints at dealing with social boredom using discreet methods, suggesting patience and tact in interactions. The note offers a wry aside about managing tedious company without open conflict.
Feebly crawling in a small tank at the O Rourke Zoological Institute in Balboa Park San Diego California are 50 tiny crawfish that may be the only living members of a rare species. Hatch from eggs laid by a specimen from Spook Canyon near Escondido California. If life is exterminated in Spook canyon waters may be restocked. The species remains unnamed.
The article notes photo telegraphy can send about a thousand words a minute, surpassing code or voice radio, letting whole newspaper sheets be transmitted. Yet it remains imperfect for large scale use, with only hundreds of words per sheet currently achievable. A test between Rio de Janeiro and Nauen achieved the high rate on short waves.
Arthur W. Thompson rose to top posts at Baltimore and Ohio and United Gas Improvement, with directorship at Pennsylvania Railroad. He recalls a Meadville childhood electric plant where a slipping belt dimmed the light, and his father explained the engineer paused to spit on his hands.
American artists in Paris held a dedicated exhibition after many left the annual salon of hand wrought ironwork. Chimney pots lanterns fire screens and similar items from the American colony were shown and praised, with the event hailed as a success.
Dearborn Independent reports more than one thousand carloads of dressed turkeys shipped from Texas for the holidays. The birds were fattened on the leaf worm that attacks the cotton crop.
Dr Hunter will be in Dahlonega every Wednesday at Dr Heads office for dental work. Dr T J McDonald will operate from his Dahlonega office the rest of the week. Next week he will be in Cleveland for dental work and the following week back in Dahlonega.
An ad states a supplier in Dublin offers silk dresses and ladies silk hose at lower prices than before. A general line of groceries is advertised as cheap as the cheapest, with ice delivery and phone number 40.
Mrs J M Brooksher invites the ladies to inspect her new stock of dresses in silk crepe and geare ties and a midsummer hats line. Special Saturday and Monday prices offered to shoppers.
Physicians endorse Calotabs for system purification as a foundation of health. Take a thorough course once or twice weekly for weeks and experience renewed vitality. family packages with directions available for 35 cents at drugstores.
A volcanic ash and Portland cement mortar is being used in Japan for underwater structures. The blend reportedly yields high tensile strength and greater density, improving resistance to water percolation. The text notes possible Philippine volcanic ash supplies if the industry grows.
The article explains milliard as a thousand millions and notes its Anglicized use after the war. It highlights the concept by stating that only a milliard minutes have passed since the birth of Jesus, illustrating the immense scale to readers of Manchester Guardian.
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