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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1919
Page
1
The United States department of agriculture reports the honey crop was 92.1 percent of normal on July 4. Estimates show surplus honey per colony at 25.8 pounds and about half of the annual product realized by July 1. Comparisons place this year’s condition at 92.4 percent, up from past years.
The report notes 715 electrical undertakings in Japan, including 625 power plants, 42 electric railways, and 48 dual operators. It records a 40 company rise from the prior year and total invested capital around $388 million, with $198 million in plants, $22 million in railways, and $178 million in combined services, up about $6 million from last year.
The text discusses how broken English varieties such as pidgin English of Hans Brietmann's ballads and a French man’s comedy reflect brogues. It mentions Creole English and Pennsylvania Dutch as examples of such linguistic forms.
Mittle Jack recalls his first night in a Pullman sleeper berth and jokes about crowded quarters. He notes the family slept in different flats, with Grandma and others in the first compartment while Mama and Daddy occupied the second.
A reflective line on chords in the heart that lie mute until touched by chance, responding to a casual, unexpected touch rather than appeals or passion. The quote from Dickens frames how deep feelings often awaken only by arbitrary, unintended triggers.
A child’s language is noted as speech from heaven the sister reports at eight months old. She tells a playmate the baby talks but is not understood describing his sky talk as heavenly communication.
A woman novelist laments a boundless dilemma: if she keeps her opinions she risks losing her husband’s love, yet if she keeps his love she risks losing her own identity. The piece probes gendered expectations and personal autonomy.
The quotation by Hazlitt claims only those who need no monument deserve one, noting true memory is built in minds rather than stone. It emphasizes self-made fame through enduring deeds over public honors.
A reflective line argues that those with few concerns speak more and louder while the thoughtful quietude of fewer affairs fosters greater speaking energy. The aphorism notes that the less one has to do, the more one talks.
In commentary the Boston Transcript notes that when one borrows trouble from a large supply a loan tends to be oversubscribed.
A short editorial notes a guiding maxim urging individuals to balance kindness with self care. The column discusses social expectations and personal goals, urging practical kindness without neglecting own needs.
The article notes lamb as a centerpiece of Armenian cuisine with 23 preparations. Roasts with marzoon sauce, whole lamb, and lamb stuffed with rice feature prominently, along with eggplant pairings and varied braises. Dishes include kouzou kapama, kouzou guvey, nohud yahni, dolma variants, and yalanji dolman in vine leaves.
In New York police courts minor offenders are often sentenced to saving terms. Syracuse invested $5,000 in War Savings stamps from offenders, later returned to them or used for families. At Niagara Falls David Broderick on probation paid $12 weekly for stamps, received $280.50 in six months, and chose indefinite probation with a pledge of $10 weekly.
Pauline Lord visited William Harris Jr to discuss an engagement before his Europe voyage. Harris asked for her salary and, after considering details, she retorted with a witty exchange about worth. He admitted he believed she was worth it but did not think she did.
Philip Male argues in the Boston Herald that delousing, though unpleasant, was a necessary wartime procedure. He cites Thomas Otway’s vermin tale, 17th century fleas tied to clothing, and age old remedies from Pliny, noting varied attitudes and the fiscal side of veteran pay.
Warr wick S Carpenter notes marathon dog speed not universal in four footed hunters. Buell Crannell of West Glens Falls owned the dog that followed a fox from near Crannell to near Cranberry Lake over seventy miles. The conservation commission identified the dog by its license tag and Crannell pursued it. The moral urged owners to ID their dogs with disks.
An American war paper quotes a British quip on politeness noting that a bow in social exchange and a salute in the ranks are alike in serving self-interest. The piece mocks how a brief, cocked gesture can insult the service more than the junior officer.
In a quip from the Youngstown Telegram a man recalls buying tickets for an aquatic exhibition in the city and finding only divers in suits. He jokes that girls in bathing suits would have improved the show, highlighting his disappointment.
Handy oil is inexpensive and useful for doors hinges and sewing machines. One drop eases squeaks and a wipe with cotton removes residue.
A reader notes temperament testing harms watches as four movements stopped in three months. A watchmaker cites balance spring magnetization as the likely cause and Prof. Sylvanus Thompson suggests that such motions could generate frictional electricity at high tension, magnetizing the spring.
A French farmer from Reninghe near Ypres bore heavy wartime losses with 86 children and 22 sons serving on fronts. In 1917 a son’s widow was killed at Dunkirk, the farmer and a daughter also died. In October 1914 a visit to Lille for a relative’s birthday ended when a German patrol shot them on return.
J. W. T H. Dew, fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, discovered a method to manufacture artificial mother of pearl. He developed the process during the war while reconstructing the production method. Artificial mother of pearl is used for fancy buttons dress trimmings and many other articles. Before the war most of it came from Germany.
The eminent French archaeologist and former head of Louvre’s Greek and Roman sculpture department, M. Heron de Villefosse, has died at seventy four. He supervised removal of the Venus de Milo to safety twice, in 1870 and 1914, facing the same threat each time.
A dialogue quotes Mr Jagsby recalling being called Old Silenus by an unnamed man who jokes about the name. The speaker contemplates action, admitting memory of Si lenus faded while hinting he was neither a church pillar nor a societal ornament.
A Popular Mechanics article explains recovering iodine from gauze and cotton mops used in a large army hospital ward. An apparatus uses cooled tubes to condense evaporated alcohol, carrying iodine into a tincture at the flask bottom. Mops are saved and later washed and sterilized.
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