Civic Officers and Churches List of Nearby County
The list records local government officials including mayoral and school trustees, county officers such as clerk, tax receiver, and surveyors, county policemen, assessors, registrars, board of education members, and road revenues. It also notes church affiliations with Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Church of God services and Sunday School schedules.
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W.H. Jones
W. J. Hightower
County Board OF Education
J. M. Ridley
W.T. Dowdy
C.D. Pierce
D. W. Caldwell
J. Hutcheson
Carl Shultz
John H. Moore
W. Ll. Ash
CO. Meaders
T. F. Christian
Auraria
W. A. Trutcheson
J.P
Cane Creek
Luther Justus
J. P. Fred Ash
N. P. Trumby
L. B. Hatfield
N. P. Chestatee
J. M. Wilkins
N. P. Davis
W. M. Wehuni
J. P
B. H. Higgins
N.P. Dahlonega
H. CG. Lovelace
N.P
J. M. Duckett
Cabbage Leaf Hats Tame August Sun
A Detroit News note advises placing a cabbage leaf under a hat to absorb sun heat and prevent sunstroke. The old Western wheat field trick helps farmers in August while working in black felt hats.
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Detroit News
Amateur club of factory girls stages Macbeth at Stratford
An East End amateur club formed by factory and shop girls recently performed Macbeth and other plays in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford on Avon highlighting a local cultural achievement in the historic town.
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East End
London
Shakespeare Memorial Theater
Stratford-on- Avon
Grasshoppers Used to Study Inheritance in Kansas Lab
In Kansas a study of inheritance uses grasshoppers to model cattle and sheep genetics. One hundred thousand insects across forty generations can be raised as cheaply as one hundred cattle over three generations. A new color pattern bred true for seven years over 25 generations arose in lab stock, and crosses with natural patterns yield new forms that breed true only when isolated from ancestral patterns.
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Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station
Getting Around Her Cheeky Rehearsal Duel
A playful stage moment between two actors unfolds as She objects to a kiss during a scene while He protests he only kisses in the second act. She calls it business as he seeks to rehearse that part.
Worthy of Great Monarch Exhibit Lecture in Washington Tent
W H H Smith told the Persian minister Mirza Hussein Khan Alai and other visitors that funding temple construction would rebuild every U S government building many times over. He cited seven years of temple work and annual outputs of wheat barley wine and oil. Eric Matson described modern Jerusalem using the exhibit model in the tent near the treasury.
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King Solomon’s Temple
Washington
W. H. H. Smith
Mirza Hussein Khan Alai
Government Park
Treasury
Mr. Smith
Eric Matson
Jerusalem
Sparing Her Feelings About Weeds Greens Incident
A grandmother offers kale not in season then diners lie to shield her feelings. The narrator and mother differ in honesty. Grandmother asks again. she says nothing while the narrator recalls his discomfort, published in the Chicago Tribune.
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Chicago: Tribune
Seventh Year Class Interprets Historic Phrase
In a School 29 class studying the Ordinance of 1787 a student asked about the phrase The free male inhabitants Jane answered that it meant the unmarried men. The Indianapolis News notes the quick interpretation by a seventh year student.
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Jane
Indianapolis News
Wormy Wood Found Market
An American exporter faced a wormy oak shipment abroad and narrowly avoided loss when a foreign antique furniture factory bought it for clocks, turning a profit. The incident shows there is a market for poor lumber if foreign market needs are understood before shipping.
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Department of Commerce
Commerce
Yukon Territory Fur Harvest Report 1922
The Yukon territory remains a top Canadian fur producer with about 170000 dollars in value from roughly 100000 skins for the year ended August 1922. Muskrats lead with about 60000 skins, up 46000 from the prior year. weasels are second with 3900 skins, followed by marten mink red fox lynx silver fox bears and others.
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Yukon Territory
Canada
Encouraging Gardening Tract Cuts Fares for Berlin Tenants
Berlin narrow gauge railways cut fares in half to help needy tenant gardeners travel to city plots. Spring and summer leases cover small patches around the city where speculative land is used. A continuous chain of vegetable plots now links the city, spanning about 15,000 acres. There are 170,000 gardeners, up 12,000 from last year.
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Berlin
England and Wales brew 22 million barrels in year end
Official figures show total beer production for year ending March 31 reached 26,616,953 barrels. England and Wales produced 22,384,328 barrels, Scotland 1,598,339, and Ireland 2,684,286.
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England
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Water Company Boss Praises Long-Serving Indianapolis Staff
Carleton T. Davis, new manager of the Indianapolis Water company, told the real estate board that many company workers are among the city's longest serving employees. Iain R. Welch fired back with a quip recalling his 1875 start in real estate, saying he had worked for the firm with a shovel.
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Carleton TE. Davis
Indianapolis Water Company
Water Company
Indianapolis Real Estate Board
Iain R. Welch
Davis
Indianapolis News
Get a Line on Bride Advice From Her Talks
A Meade County Wy Messenger item notes brides and grooms should study a woman's interactions with her mother before marriage. The quip suggests listening closely to family conversations to gauge character and compatibility.
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Meade County
Messenger
Not Chastened Gang Ends Tent Sessions
An eight year old boy nicknamed Perce challenged the Birmingham style gang of older youths in Indianapolis who used a tent behind a yard as their hangout after school. The younger boy pressed his claim to join, culminating in a ruling by the tent owner’s father that Perce be admitted but the tent must stay peaceful for the night. The gang’s leaders, however, persisted in ejecting Perce, prompting the high porch summons from the “high lord” and the promise of decree until the matter is resolved.
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Indianapolis
High Court of Appeals
Percy
Perce
Mgr. Hamilton
Experiments Hint Wireless Signal Slower Than Light
French scientists measure wireless signal speed using double-path timing with accurate station spacing. Paris to Toulon yields 0.00287 seconds and Paris to Washington 0.02122 seconds, suggesting an average wireless velocity near 296000 km/s versus light at 186000 miles per second.
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Diffel Tower
Paris
Toulon
Washington
Washington Star
Chile Nitrate Exports Rise in March and April
Nitrate exports from Chile in March reached 263000 metric tons with 110000 sent to the United States. In the first half of April exports totaled 295000 tons with 62000 going to the United States. March sales stood at 197000 tons versus 31000 tons in the first 21 days of April.
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Chile
United States
Women of Seattle Present Gold Pearl Coffee Service to White House
During President Harding's Seattle visit the city’s women gifted a five piece coffee service richly decorated with gold and pearls. Valued at 15000 dollars, the set is to become part of the White House art treasures.
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Harding
Seattle
White House
Silent H Adventure With a Fielding Typewriter
A New York Herald note recalls a typewriter lent to an Englishman that caused the letter H to disappear in words like cabbage. The amused anecdote highlights quirks of language and a misbehaving machine.
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New York Herald
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R. H. Baker
A. West
Jos. Townsend
T.H. Wimpy
T. I
Jackson
H. Head
Trustees City School
Ayelke
W. Fh. Townsend
F. Christian Baerilsll
M. Davis
S.s.ccceest
G. OC
Porter
J. TH. Peek Colon
Cantrell
D. Sess
R. I. Baker
John Evans
G. ©. Burns
Gog. Evans
WSU
Free
D. O. Johnson
J. P. Court
Nugget
G H McGuire
Dahlonega, GA
Head’s
Georgia
Lumpkin County
Joe, W. Rider
J. J. Rider
J. , Rider
J. KE. Rider
Court of Ordinary
W. RB. Towssenn
B. F P. Anderson
J. G. Martin
Canton Cotton Mills
Canton
North Georgia
L. L. Jones
Dahlonega Station
Ford Cars
Fred C. Jones
Prop
Shakespeare
Bank of Dahlonega
FURS
Romer Tiead
Dakloneya, Tia
France
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