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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1926
Page
1
The Paris courts ruled that snoring does not justify divorce and that separate rooms can settle the dispute. A wife claimed snoring made sleeping together impossible, while another case involved a Czech husband returning from internment and affecting his wife’s wartime business, but the judge denied divorce and suggested the husband seek work elsewhere.
Excavations at Creswell Crags England reveal a well preserved bear canine tooth a large bird bone lance point and a cooking stone. The finds suggest Mousterian people used fire and accumulated deposits over 15000 years separating them from modern times.
A Detroit News quote tells of a West Grand avenue salesman who helps a needy youth then discovers he himself is flat broke. He recounts rushing to his office to collect pay and ends with a vow to avoid generosity without proof. The anecdote highlights embarrassment and personal irony.
A Grand Avenue resident recalls a party where women shared coffee measurements. One used a teaspoon, another a tablespoon, a matron filled by feel, and the men concluded none used enough. The Detroit News reports light humor on domestic coffee rituals.
London begins a westward shift as firms flee crampedBank of England era quarters for the West End. The trend mirrors New York and Chicago as a new business city could emerge within a decade with shops hotels and theaters expanding outward.
A shoe official asserts that low heeled shoes have caused feet and ankles to grow. He notes average women's foot size rose from 414 to 614 percent since 1920, with ankles increasing about a half inch. The piece contrasts modern footwear with past corsets and long tresses.
North Georgia real estate offers favorable investment opportunities as the mountain region attracts buyers from crowded cities. Dahlonega and surrounding areas boast climate scenery and good roads, with prospects for low prices now and rising values later. The North Georgia Agricultural College and local high school anchor the area, offering vacant lots, residences, small farms, and larger parcels for development.
Herman P. DeLaperriere a prominent Jackson County farmer and businessman announces his candidacy for Congress from Georgia's Ninth District subject to the Democratic primary in September. He served four terms in the state legislature including three in the House and current tenure in the Senate as the 35th district chairman on the appropriation committee. He cites farming and business expertise and long legislative service as grounds for his bid and notes his work for the tuberculosis sanitarium at Alto and the North Georgia Agricultural College.
American scientists in lower Palestine uncover ruins believed to be the Ash taroth sanctuary of the Philistines with extensive debris and hundreds of clay tablets. Inscriptions are unreadable yet, but scholars expect insights on the Philistines, their wars with Israel, and figures like Saul Jonathan David Samson.
The Hathaway cottage where Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway kept house now features a gas stove and smoke-free beams after years of coal and ash. A new caretaker avoids the old smoky hearth while preserving the kitchen as it was used by the poet and his bride.
In a brief Edinburgh Scotsman fragment, Mrs Bromley is praised for hats but retorts with a bold compliment to her husband. He responds gallantly, and she carries the moment with a recalled amused smile for a week.
French inventor outlines a 60 mph airship on rails for Paris to Saint Denis commuters. A 40 by 7 by 7 foot car built of duralumin would carry 60 to 100 passengers totaling five tons, powered by a gasoline or electric motor with a reversible propeller.
American researchers hail ephedrine a five thousand year old Chinese remedy now tested at the University of Wisconsin by Dr. K K Chen. The drug shows promise as an asthma and head cold treatment and as a local anesthetic. It relaxes airway muscles to ease breathing and seals nasal ducts to relieve running noses, possibly supplanting adrenaline in clinical use.
A plan to establish a school for girl farmers as inducement for colonists. Twelve girls will sail to New Zealand to train on a Palmerston estate while boys learn plowing and stock handling. Expenses are funded by New Zealand sheep farmers, many of whom are said to have minus wives.
Aluminum may replace copper in transmission and distribution. A new clay extraction process lowers production costs enough to enable aluminum use for electricity from generating stations.
A Lawrenceburg Kentucky man credits Black Draught with easing severe bilious attacks and constipation after failing pills. The ad-like testimonial claims purification of the system and renewed energy. Also a 1926 Georgia notice to creditors of J B Tate estate, J W Boyn administrator, demands payment and claims.
All creditors of the estate of IT G Brackett late of Dumpkin County are notified to render demands to the undersigned as required by law. All debtors to said estate must pay immediately. Dated 14 May 1926 T F Gurtetran Admr
The city tax book will be open from April 20 to June 1, 1926 for receiving tax returns of all property within Dahlonega's corporate limits. The returns will be received by Alderman B. Yousley or H. T. Burns.
The Dantonca Telephone Co advertises low rates with residential service at $1.75 and business at $2.25. Extra extensions in the same house priced at $1.50, and desk set type at 25 cents higher. Subscribe now and join the new directory.
A downtown office tale in which a young man postpones marriage after learning the expense of hose. His stenographer asks to attend a ten o clock hosiery sale and returns with ten pairs. He jokes they cover about six weeks, not a year, revealing the lure of bargains in matrimony.
A second hand store proprietor in Ottawa Kansas found a trove of items inside an old sofa he purchased. While disassembling for repair he uncovered forty seven hairpins three mustache combs forty six buttons thirteen needles eight cigarettes five photographs two hundred seventeen pins some grains of coffee six pocket knives fifteen poker chips a vial of headache tablets thirty four lumps of chewing gum nine tooth picks and four buttonhooks.
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