Local Government Officials and Church Notices List
A dense roster lists city officials including Mayor and aldermen, county officers, tax collectors, school trustees, and road commissions. It also enumerates church leaders and service times for Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Church of God congregations with Sunday schools and midweek meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.H. Jones
W. J. Hightower
A. B. Keith
County Board OF Education
W.B. Lowe
J. M. Ridley
W.T. Dowdy
O. D. Pierce
Carl Shultz
John H. Moore
W. Ll. Ash
Meaders
J. F. Christian
Outsides Peace
Auraria
W. A. Hutcheson
J. P
Cane Creek
Luther Justus
J. P. Crumby
L. B. Hatfield
N. P. Ghestatee
J. M. Wilkins
N. P. Davis
B. H. Higgins
Speer
Methodist Church
J. W. Blake
Epworth League
Lamar Weaver
M.C. Wyley
Supt Presbyterian Church
B. W. Baker
J. C. Carson
Church OF God
Ella Fry
Fare by mail line to Gainesville cut to two dollars
The fare by mail line to and from Gainesville is reduced to $2 each way. Autos escort passengers safely through the service. For booking call Avery & Vaughn at phone number 1-5J.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Avery & Vaughn
Silk stockings replace bouquets at debutante receptions
The St Paul Dispatch notes Chicago society has shifted from flowers to silk stockings for debutante receptions. Eldest relatives and friends still give bouquets, but the trend favors utilitarian gifts, with a single pair displayed and others boasted about, a sign of changing haute society tastes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
St. Paul
Quotes and Quips From A Labor Banquet And Other Vignettes
A compilation of humorous lines and sketches by Samuel Gompers and others. The pieces feature a labor banquet critique of radical policy, a Solomon in an asylum fable, a steamer pilot joke, and observations from various magazines. The humor centers on misperceptions, aging, and human foibles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Gompers
Solomon
Relics of Ages Past Recorded in England and Egypt
A 600 year old bread relic is said to lie at Ambas ton Derbyshire in a crown grant lineage with the Soar family. An 1100 year old dwelling, once St Ger mans Gate near St Albans abbey, remains habitable. A 1530 B C marriage proposal tablet from the Nile dated about 1530 B C survives in the British Museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ambaston
Derbyshire
England
John
Soar
Offa
Mercia
St. German’s Gate
St. Albans Abbey
British Museum
Babylon
Safer hammers cut accidents after roughened face trial
The article reports on reducing hammer injuries by roughening hammer faces. Polished faces caused nails to slip and, with cast metal heads, led to dangerous launches. A firm’s experiment with scored faces cut injuries and led to abolition of polished hammers except for special work, spurring other manufacturers to adopt roughened designs.
Beaver and beaver names in New York history
The Chicago Journal notes a family’s wealth linked to a beaver origin and a street in New York named after the animal. It recalls Beaver Brook once flowing through downtown and mentions the beaver as a vanished native species in the United States. It adds that “Little panda” beavers in zoos are Canadian immigrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Zoological Gardens
Canada
Chicago Journal
Fog to Water: Vast Droplet Counts in Dense Fog
Dr. W J Humphreys explains a single gulp of water from fog requires massive condensation. The densest Newfoundland fog holds about twenty thousand droplets per cubic inch, and a volume 8 by 8 by 100 feet would yield one gulp. Counting droplets would take about a half hour per inch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Humphreys
United States Weather Bureau
Washington
Newfoundland
Dr. Wells
Dr. Thuras
Bureau of Standards
United States
Humphreys
Absent-minded Professor Forgets Highland Attire
A professor hosts Scottish guests in Highland dress for a ruins visit and luncheon. Misplaced imagination leads to Jane the housemaid returning with the professor’s trousers, exposing bare knees of the astonished Scots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
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Baker
G. H. Moore
S. A. West
Jos. Townsend
I. J. Smith
T. F Jacksonson
W. H. Jone
Vuity Marshal
Wm. Housley
Trustees City School
SUV Amery Aba
Are Bart Hae
H. Head
Treas
John H. En
J. M. Brooksher
W. Cain
Css
W. B. Townsend
Superior Court
T.F. Christian McK
J. A Davis
Porter Wax
Oss
Peck Royomom, Oe
Cantrell
K. E. Baker Surveyor
John Evans
G. G. Evans
W. J. Free
D. O. Johnson
Stenk
Sanwiches
Miss Knowall
Miss Wise
Harper's Magazine
Long Island
Harry
American Legion Weekly
Florida
Louisville Courier-Journal
Eben
Chesterfield
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co
Satay
Dahlonega
The
Beaver
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