Lycurgus Seen as foe of hard drinking in Thrace
A Kansas City Star writer recalls Lycurgus, a legendary founder of the Spartan constitution, as a reformer who banned Bacchic worship in Thrace. After travels to Egypt, Spain, Crete, India, and Libya, he imposed strict sobriety and faced backlash before his death. Most historians place his reign in the ninth century BC.
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Kansas City Star
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Eel Outwits Angler On The Line In Freshwater Tale
An eel described by a writer from Lorunt Magazine demonstrates clever fighting tactics. In clear water the creature hunts with groups, twists around hooks, and can knot line quickly, often climbing tail first toward the surface to escape. The author recounts eight half hitches and two overhand knots the eel tied before release.
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Selfi
Armstrong Pctry Ito
Survivor Rescued After Violent Beach Surf
A man is carried ashore on a wave after a near drowning. Bystanders and a crown of rescue workers administer artificial respiration as the victim regains consciousness. He murmurs a strained assurance to a person named Alice.
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Bevel
Alice
Nme
Ancient Mesopotamian Blueprint Discovered by Dr Sturna
An early architectural drawing, possibly the oldest blueprint, found in Mesopotamia and described by Dr J Sturna, shows a segment of a large house with walls and doorways sketched in clean lines. Cuneiform notes indicate dimensions, with the faintest room measuring 40 by 46 feet.
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Mesopotamia
J. Sturn
Dca
Distress Signal Evolution Under Early International Rules
A 19th century notice explains changes to distress signaling by maritime stations. It notes the Mureau International Compunication company order using the letter D for general inquiry, later adopted by British ships, and the 1908 international radio telegraph convention that made the signal O universally standard while some operators continued using GC QD and 8 O after that date to ensure clarity.
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Mureau International Compunication Company
Napoleon quote about stepping into an abyss of flowers
Fragmentary text cites Napoleon Bonaparte referencing a blossomed abyss when married to a Austrian princess and speaks of his trusted ally. It notes disputed attribution of a famous cry and mentions Madame de Pompadour and Livette’s sources in uncertain terms.
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Wealth of Ancient Pharaoh Ra mummies TiI Revealed
Diodorus and Plutarch praise Pharaoh Ra mummies Ti I for extraordinary wealth. He reportedly owned about 400000 talents, worth roughly $500000000 in modern money and far more in historical buying power. A fat ox cost $1, wheat 12 cents, and daily wages were 12 to 20 cents in that era.
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Plutarch
Ranmieses Tii
Hoampsinitus
Rameses
Christ
New York Times
How Vanderbilt Earned First Hundred Dollars
The memoir recounts young Cornelius Vanderbilt selecting a harbor boat dream and earning $100 from his mother by his sixteenth birthday in 1810. He later multiplied that amount to a vast fortune, illustrating early ambition and maritime drive.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Commodore
Meade Minnigerrede
Callier
A Walk With Thoreau In The Woods
Mary Hosmer Crown recalls Thoreau’s gentle forest manners and patient feeding ritual. He guides observers to berries nests and flowers without harming nature while birds and animals respond to his quiet presence.
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Thoreau
Mary Hosmer
Consord
Vicarage Wine Brings Dispute at Distant Bedside
An aging husband lies ill as his wife storms in to confront the vicarage over a bottle of wine offered to him. She recalls the wine had sat in the cellar since 1900 and she refuses it, muttering about nasty sales.
Child Brings Burned Match Back After Borrow Request
Morning scene in a duplex where three year old Tielen asks for a match for mother. Helen appears with a burned nitteh, Mrs N- notes the match was not all used and promises to return it when the grocer boy comes.
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Indianaapolia News
Phone rates clash over deadbeat users in Dahlonega
A garbled notice from the Dahlonega Telephone Company warns residents against nonpaying or borrowed phone use. It asserts service is for paying subscribers and analogizes misuse to dodging railroad fares, urging honest behavior and clear ownership of lines.
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Childen
Peent
Jis
Dannonca Penson
Grand Jury Presentment Warns Mill Creek Road and Jail Repairs
The 1927 Lumpkin County Grand Jury reports on N. P. J. P. dockets and appoints H. Chambers as N. P. in Mill Creek district. They urge road repairs near Mill Creek, Wimpy Mill, and Clay Creek, call for jail and court facility repairs, and commend commissioners and the sheriff, with presentments to be published in the Dahlonega Nugget.
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Clay Creek Road
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J. H. Jenkins
J. H. Peek
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I. GW. Sutton
Robert McMillian
Ancient Brus Stone Unveiled in Annan Town Hall
The Brus Stone dating to 1304, once lost for 150 years, was installed permanently in Annan's staircase. Sir Trobert Bruce unveiled the stone formerly part of the Casile of Rrns. It was recovered ten years ago from a local garden after a period of loss and guilt.
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