City Government and Officials Directory Listing
A detailed directory lists city officials and trustees including Mayor G N Moore and R H Baker Aldermen, trustees for the city school, county offices, tax collectors, registrars, roads and revenues, notaries, JPs, and church affiliations with service times for Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Church of God congregations.
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W.H., Jones
W. J. Hightower
A. B. Keith
County Board OF Education
Witi Bowre
J. M. Ridley
W.T. Dowdy
D. Pierce
D. W. Caldwell
Jarl Shultz
John H. Moore
Peeteea
W. L. Ash
BR. G. Meaders
T. F. Christian
Notary
Peageh
Auraria
W. A. Hutcheson
J.P
Cane Creek
Luther Justus
J. P. Crumby
L. B. Hatfield
N. P. Chestatee
J. M. Wilkins
N. P
M. Wehunt
J. P
B.H
Dahle N.pahlonega
W. P. Rider
A. R. Ray
Piero
I. Jones
N. P. Hightower
J. N. Satterfield
N. P. Jones’ Creek
M. H. Kendall
N. P. Martin
Ford
J. G. Martin
J. P. Nimblewill
J. M. Calhoun
Porter Springs
J. B. Ricketts
J. M. Duckett
M.C. Wyley
Presbyterian Church
B. W. Baker
J. O. Carson
Church OF God
Ella Fry
Ea Fry
City Taxes Open For 1922 At Smiths Store
The city tax book is open at Alderman T. J. Smith's store for 1922 tax collection and will close on the first of Mataha. Treasurer Luse T. J. Suren notes the deadline and process.
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T. J. Smith
Mataha
Notice to show cause on dismission of estate administrator
In Lumpkin County Georgia Lizzie Davis Administratrix of Sallie Simmons estate petitions the court for dismissal after full administration. Citizens and creditors are cited to appear and show cause why letters of dismission should not be granted on the first Monday in October 1922. Signed W B Townsen Ordinary.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
Lizzie Davis
Sallie Simmons
W. B. Townsenn
Notice to heirs and creditors in Lumpkin County estate
J M Brooksher as administrator of the estate of Ingersoll deceased petitions to discharge after full administration. The Ordinary requires all persons concerned to show cause why discharge should not be granted on the first Monday in October 1922.
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Lumpkin County
J.M. Brooksher
Ingersoll
W. B. Towstenn
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promotion Notice
Catarrh described as a local disease influenced by constitutional conditions. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is a tonic taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Assists nature in restoring normal conditions. Information circles free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Forgotten Tribe Grants Philadelphia Rare Animal Exhibition
Wharton Huber of the Academy of Natural Sciences returns from Nicaragua with 600 birds 40 mammals 2000 fish reptiles and insects for display. He describes tracking Sumo Indians deep into tropical forests 180 miles inland using pitpan boats and jaguar encounters while noting the tribe's shrinking numbers and timidness toward outsiders. He used dynamite to secure fish specimens.
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Philadelphia
Wharton Huber
The
Academy of Natural Sciences
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan
Huber
Prinza Polka
Bandana
Mininda
Put Out Fires With Glass Balls
A thin walled glass ball about egg sized filled with a standard flame killing liquid is being marketed as a new fire extinguisher. Experiments show these fire outs quickly snuff out fires and cost 80 cents per set of three, with a wall hanging carton.
Not Pretty Music Dorothy at the Barber Shop
A three year old girl named Dorothy Hyves visited a barber shop for a trim. The electric clippers frightened her despite reassurance. She later heard music from the barber and commented that his music was not pretty.
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Dorothy
Hyves
New Albany
Indianapolis News
What Didn’t Go Together Prison Visit
A visitor and convict discuss family advice about marriage. The convict recalls his father’s wish for him to marry beauty and brains, and explains he committed bigamy to honor that hope.
Men as Flappers A Century Ago In Wyoming Item
The Gillette News outs histories fashion clash with a tongue in cheek analysis of men dressing as flappers fifty years ago. It notes hair grease corsets stiff shirts wide belts and padded shoulders and suggests current styles will fade to something else.
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Gillette Wyo
Wyoming
Harmonizing With Piano Tests In Locomotive Workshops
A piano used in a locomotive workshop detects defects by comparing hammer-generated vibrations to piano notes. A trained ear listens for dissonance, revealing flaws hidden to ordinary hammering. When each note rings true with the same pitch as the plane, the locomotive is deemed fit for service.
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Scientific American
Vision of Television Comes From Wireless Talks
The article foresees talking to distant people with a device like the human eye enabling real time video during radio conversation. Nikola Tesla is credited with predicting this telecommunication breakthrough and pursuing apparatus to realize television.
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Nikola Tesla
Leech Boom Restores Old Popularity In Medicine
After years of neglect leeches regain favor for treating inflammation. Old farms disappeared and physicians report difficulty sourcing supply. Turkish mustard plasters and Paris farms export leeches. selling 180000 monthly. England chemists could absorb double.
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Turkey
Paris
England
Scientific American
Broadway Show Rumor Reaches Remote Town
In Chiggersville, townsfolk debate a New York Broadway act arriving rumor. Squire Witherbee doubts the billboards claiming a direct New York show, noting the must-have car change at Hickory Junction would be required, casting doubt on the claim.
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Squire
Squire Witherbee
New York
Chiggersville
Hickory Junction
Senator Sorghum on Business Relations and Government Posts
A dialogue where a friend asks if Sorghum is troubled by politics. He replies that his worry lies in business relations, noting he has many relatives seeking government positions and that each request carries real business implications.
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Senator Sorghum
Phenomenon of a Fist
A courtroom exchange centers on a man claiming self defence and misunderstanding as he faces charges of assault and battery. He asserts he only slapped the other after a preceding slap to his jaw during a tense moment in court. The dialogue hints at misinterpretation and physical fault between the parties.
Political Blame Game Sparks Train of Insults
A timorous citizen fears a clash while bystanders note the exchange centers on rhetoric rather than violence. The dialogue shows candidates trading accusations as a duty in this region’s campaigns.
Ambitious graduate eyed by editor in Birmingham paper
A Birmingham Age-Herald remark envisions a college graduate breaking into journalism with clear, plain prose and a standout story, rather than overusing six-syllable diction. The editor predicts a corker of a piece from the aspiring writer.
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Elty
Birmingham Age-Herald
The 24 Hour Day Puzzle Prompting Dance Confusion
A talkative person asks if a man should work eight hours for each activity. The fractious citizen dismisses the query and jokes about learning new dancing steps making him unsure if a day has 24 or 43 hours.
Matter of Opinion on Writing Poetry
Maude asks if you write poetry and gets a blunt editors’ reply. The exchange notes that a faint heart cannot win the fair lady or escape peril, reflecting a playful back and forth about creative effort.
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Maude
Frank
Managing a Career in Public Life and Campaigns
Dialog sketches public figures and politics with lines about use of public life, campaign managers, and a rumor about Beatrice Beautiful. The piece also notes debates on prudence, discretion, and a school committee meeting drawing a crowd.
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Sorghum
Two Hundred Thousand German Fish Sent to French Lakes
Two hundred thousand fresh water fish from German lakes were transported to France for reparations. They travelled in a special train with water cisterns, water renewed with oxygen every four hours, and arrived safely without a single casualty in the lakes of Picardy.
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France
Picardy
Restless boarders rile quiet farm city
Si Simlin teases about border boarders at a rural home. Farmer Countessel explains they stay to play games and listen to the phonograph day and night, then return to their quiet city homes to rest.
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Si Simlin
Farmer Banishes Cats Then Loses Them Mystery
A Jackson county farmer banished four household cats, loading them into a sack and tossing them along a highway toward a house. A woman later returned the cats saying she found all four and watched the incident, leaving the farmer perplexed at the end of the tale.
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Jackson County
Kansas City
Kansas City Star
Locomotive Ditch Digger Revolutionizes Track Work
Milwaukee Sentinel notes a new method using a scoop on the locomotive to dig a ditch along tracks. Twenty miles can be plowed in a day at about six dollars per mile, three feet deep and fourteen feet from the center line, removing eighteen cubic feet per foot. The machine is steered from the locomotive deck via air valves, proving faster than the traditional pick and shovel.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Community Cow Aids Greensboro Family Members
A church by the roadside in Greensboro North Carolina rents a community cow for one dollar weekly to families unable to buy livestock. Proceeds fund additional cows to form a community herd. The cow first served a family of six children and a founder notes visible improvements in the children and even the cow’s well being is checked by a community nurse weekly.
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Greensboro
N. C
A. W. McAlister
Historic Sword Recovered From Tweed River In Scotland
A sword found in the Tweed at Berwick recovered from a salmon net is identified as a gift from the city of Aberdeen to Col. Alexander Tower of Ferryhill and Logie for raising the Aberdeen pike men in 1808. He later served as MP for Berwick from 1806. The weapon was stolen from a Tweedmouth house 51 years ago and the burglar admitted throwing it and other loot into the river from Berwick Bridge.
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Berwick
Scotland
Aberdeen
Alexander Tower
Ferryhill and
Logie
Tweedmouth
Berwick Bridge
Far From the Madding Crowd Vacation Wish
Senator Sorghum explains plans for a secluded spot to worry about many things without being observed. He describes vacations as a term others use while intending to seek a private retreat.
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Senator Sorghum
Bible Thoughts for This Week Sunday to Saturday
A weekly devotional list cites scriptures for each day including Malachi 3 17 Philippians 2 3 4 Proverbs 11 26 Psalm 37 8 Acts 17 27 28 and Nehemiah 9 17. Each day presents a theme and verse for contemplation.
Deaf and dumb population declines per million in 1920 census
The 1920 census shows 44 885 deaf and dumb people, up from 1910, but the rate per million fell from 486 to 425. The census bureau attributes the decline to better treatment of diseases in children that often cause deafness, a trend also seen in Europe.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Rat Attacks Sleeping Baby in Kansas City
A six month old girl named Alice was attacked by a large gray rat clinging to her foot in Kansas City Missouri. Mrs. William T Elledge awakened by screams moved the rat away and the parents transported the infant to a hospital where emergency treatment was given.
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Kansas City
Alice
William T. Elledge
Lumpkin County approves 1922 tax rates and levies
Georgia Lumpkin County commissioners set 1922 tax structure including state 5 mills educational 1 mill and county rates totaling 1.60 per hundred dollars for the county except Dahlonega city where the total is 1.50. Specific splits cover road general bond indebtedness paupers jail and other charges.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
B. R. CO. Meaders
W. L. Ash
John H. Moore
Board of Education
Oahonega
Towith
Dahlonega
Jownx TH
Moore
R. C. Mraworks
W. J. Asa
Commissioners of Roads & Revenues
County of
Lumpkin
State of
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T West
F Jos
Townsend
J. J. *Eumith
T. E. Jacksongen
W. Hirene
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Housley
Wgds
ONS Vsteengineers
Hy Headless
Treas
John HH
Boots J.M. Brooksher
Townsend Clerk Superior Court
F. Christian Pho Yiey Ai
J. M. Davis
Porter
Ad. H. Peck
John Evans
G. G. Evans
W. J. Free
Db. O. Johnson
Bjuwunuei, Luse
T. J. Suren
Grandpa
Flub
Beatrice Beautiful
Plunkville
Becker
Stevens Tech
Stone Mill
Malachi
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