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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1925
Page
1
Letter invites old students to a May 30 gathering on the campus with a six o clock spread by the Senior class and town ladies. Alumni Society will convene around 6 30 p m with Rev Sant J Cartledge to preach the commencement sermon and urges attendance to support the troubled school.
Lawrenceburg Kentucky resident J P Nevins recounts severe bilious attacks with dizziness and constipation relieved by Black Draught. The ad claims a liver cleansing effect from natural roots and herbs, priced at 25 cents and sold nationwide.
A Paris based doctor extols garlic as a tonic with broad healing powers. He cites uses from lowering high blood pressure to treating bronchitis and tuberculosis and even as an antiseptic, noting its strong odor may offend but can be shared by others to spread health.
Surgeon Mark Hovel proposed using blue-bottle flies as detectives to locate a dead rat or mouse. He advises releasing flies in a room after sealing it to observe where they settle, indicating the body's location. If flies are unavailable, he suggests outside meat to attract them for capture.
The latest stencil art uses old lace as the cut pattern for wall panels. Shellac stiffens the lace, which is then pressed to the wall and painted with a stiff brush to prevent blurring, after which the panels are framed with molding.
The Big Sandy West Virginia theater manager asks film salesmen to send pictures with minimal subtitles because many patrons cannot read them. He hires a reading boy the subtitles for pay, and the boy demands higher wages, saying there is too much reading in the films.
Heavy snows bring elk and deer into Banff Alberta as they roam streets and visit homes. A grand buck with impressive antlers appears as regular as the milkman, making rounds along Banff Avenue in search of titbits during the common sighting.
Tremors in Cradley Heath Shildon and Abertillery are blamed on collapsing old mine galleries. A Cradley street sank five feet with bulging shop windows and cracked gas mains. Shildon's new 20 000 dollar school was wrecked. In Preesall salt mining caused rumblings and a growing hole threatening an orchard and farmhouse.
A Somerville crossword fan who called a physician for a seven letter windpipe term got the answer trachea and was billed $2 for professional services. Boston Transcript.
An editorial from the London Times titled To Rhyme With Dog discusses fog and urban pride. The piece ponders a human tendency to find happiness in unhappiness and recalls a rhyme about never appreciating what one has.
A new sports league for the deaf forms in Amsterdam and Rotterdam with football as the main event. Local clubs Amsterdam and Rotterdam plan a match between their elevens to select a national eleven to face a Belgian deaf team in Antwerp next May.
A Pullman porter with 54 years on the job asserts women snore louder than men. He describes portly women and buxom snorers as producing mellow saxophone-like noises while lean individuals make lean, wheezy cornet sounds. He notes big people tend to snore more and invites ladies’ clubs to discuss the topic.
St. Louis police sergeant Joseph Schneider has adopted and cared for 80 children in the last two decades. He supported all with his police salary ranging from 100 to 165 dollars monthly, crediting his wife for good management. They never had biological children but could have cared for six more if needed.
A Milwaukee man, P. H. Kasper, found a long unread French letter from Paris dated 1900. Translation reveals Kasper won the first prize for the finest cheese at the Paris exposition and he has requested the gold medal.
Dr. R. M. Harper of the Florida state geological survey warned at a Washington geological society meeting that if birth rates decline and death rates rise over the next decades, deaths may equal births by 1960 and population growth could halt.
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