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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1924
Page
1
A county notice enumerates officials including Sheriff, Tax Collectors, Auditors, and Board of Education members. It also lists various post offices, chapels, and church services with pastors and service times across multiple communities.
A Bulgarian inventor M Vodenst eharolf has designed and tested a wave and tide power machine after ten years of work. A twenty ton receiver on a shore based stage moves with the sea and, via chains and cog wheels, converts irregular water movement into a steady output. Trials reportedly prove successful and have won Bulgarian government backing.
A satirical note from The Editor mocks animal stories while narrating a cinnamon bear tale. The piece cites Simeon Ford’s Pennsylvania Sunday school story about a philanthropic young woman teaching children in a mining district, with a Bethlehem misstatement corrected by a boy. It also references Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison era dialogue about scientific endeavor and invention.
Dialogue notes a shop talk about a “wonder watch” named by Sambo and Jasbo. They praise the hardware and joke about always asking the time, highlighting curiosity in a casual exchange.
P D Buckminster technical supervisor for Breinig Bros at Hoboken New Jersey has been named editor of Everyman's News a paper published by a Bible class of a church at Rutherford New Jersey He has begun his duties. The publication is a live sixteen page paper.
Blink The two hens I shut up in a coop have laid three eggs. Blank What awfully good sports One must have laid the other two to one London Tit Bits.
Dialogue captures a social exchange where Tom laments lacking friends and expresses reluctance to lend money even to a friend, reflecting humor and social mores of London Tit-Bits.
A comical exchange has Baggs recall a man so ticklish on his feet that he walked on a blotter after baths to dry them without fits. He counters with a tale of a nervous landlady who greases house corners to quiet the wind creaks.
The Shantung region has a mild winter, with the Yellow River unfrozen. River boatmen quote a proverb about selling wives during hard times. Explanations blame the Japanese earthquake for warming, while fortune tellers lament dull New Year weather. Rain fell on the second and third days, governing dogs and pigs fortunes, but the seventh day’s birthdays were sunny, offering hope for the year.
A friend boasts of her dinner party, praising a previous cook who started well but failed. The humorist notes the critique that good cooks are fleeting, and the exchange hints at inevitable culinary misfires and social banter.
A snippet notes a voyage moment where a cook stayed aboard for six weeks while the party cruised in a launch. Rae confirms the tale, mentioning fear of sharks and fear of jumping overboard. The source frames this as a quirky anecdote from New York Sun and Globe.
A frightened wife hears a scraping in a cold air duct and fears a rat. Her husband and an employee search, ignite a furnace, and pull out a scorched squirrel found in a sack, escaping to the woods.
A Pitcairn player hit a drive to center that landed in a groundhog hole, allowing him to circle the bases for the winning run as Derry fielders scrambled to recover the ball.
An African pastor complains his congregation is ignorant and ungodly while a missionary jokes that he would hire a yellow dog to bite them. The dialogue uses dialect to highlight church flaws and cultural gap in a humorous tone.
In Lumpkin County Georgia Mrs Birtie Miney has applied for a year’s support from the estate of Theodore Miney deceased. Appraisers filed their return and all interested parties must show cause before the Court of Ordinary on the first Monday in October 1924. Date Sept Ard day 1924 W B Townshnp
The Court of Ordinary of Decath county orders sale of A I Burnett estate parcels in Lumpkin and Dah lonega with mineral rights excepted. Three parcels totaling 40 plus two acres plus 40 acres described, located in land lots 985 986 551, first section 12th district. Terms require one third cash, balance over three years. Spence & Spence, Atlanta lawyers.
A public notice states all who owe money by note or account to B. F. Anderson must pay promptly to aid his busy business operations.
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