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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1927
Page
4
French observers praise the Marseilles canal tunnel linking the port with the Etang de Berre and on to the Rhone. The tunnel is wide and deep, large enough for six trains and five barges to pass, and is said to be the biggest tunnel by breadth and depth though not the longest.
The tale links a character named Tie-Miss Posse to the 1849 gold rush, suggesting her origins lie in that historic period and hinting at a gold digger theme.
An Irvington family relocating to the north side kept a longtime colored maid. After the tornado she arrived late claiming the storm forced her to travel three miles to reach the home, prompting explanations from the household.
A wedding ring once owned by Mrs. Reuben Travis of Beverly New Jersey was found by Mrs. Stoward Warrick as she prepared a garden. The ring bears the inscription Reuben to Tattie and is linked to Mrs. Tavis who lost it in 1876 after marriage. News of the recovery reached her in California. The ring was recovered from a flower bed that has been raked and replanted yearly for decades.
A speaker at the farmers institute gave a lecture on minerals in a balanced ration to promote growth. He advised supplying lime for bone development and joked with a boy about dealing with the town butcher.
A Dutch official mill association reports over 45 percent of windmills in Holland have been removed since 1923. The number fell from 8,604 mills about four years ago to 6,978, reflecting extensive demolitions and removals in the period.
Albert E. Wiggan argues grudges block progress and urges bright people to be tolerant patient and fair when dealing with slower peers. He emphasizes honest self comparison to improve relations and outcomes.
A London Opinion item notes the bishop of Gibraltar as a genial church official and the sole Church of England dignitary overseeing southern Europe including Nice, Malta, and 60 other missions. The bishop visits the Vatican and jokes with the pope about being in the pope’s diocese.
Commissioners of Lumpkin County Georgia announce the 1927 tax structure. State levy remains 6 mills, education tax 3.5 mills, with county rates totaling 1.85 dollars per hundred for general, bond indebtedness, paupers, and jail repairs. Dahlonega city limits taxed at 1.35 dollars per hundred.
The Dahlonega Telephone Company urges residents that phone use in homes is for those living there and warns that others using it is dishonest. They compare borrowed service to a borrowed newspaper and say stamps must be paid. The company offers a concession to small businesses but emphasizes paying for service.
Boston Superintendent Crowley denounces nine new novels as attacking him. The report contrasts his stance with a grim tale of Velog Tenderson and Dolor Henderson, where a funeral sparked a public wedding uproar and a crowd outside Peleg's home.
A brief, unclear exchange hints at a confidant described as a friend who would never imprison the speaker in Bradstreet. The fragment leaves the relationship and setting unresolved, inviting speculation about loyalty and risk in a constrained situation.
In a family scene young Willy, the youngest, encounters a familiar stock question about bringing a baby home. He is asked what kind of baby he would like, and after a brief pause he answers with a playful twist asking for a “while one,” reflecting a quaint child’s perspective.
Professor Alti Tehnev of the Moscow Astronomical Observatory predicts three years of sunspot activity will trigger great human activity and may alter the global political map. He says sunspots excite nerves and masses, linking them to major wars and crises during maxima.
The article reports about 1,000 Angora rabbit farms in France producing wool valued at $190,000 annually, with portions sold in England at 8 a pound. It claims Angora wool is the finest and purest in the world, while Mugland raises rabbits for wool and Americans mainly keep them as pets.
A German inventor pursues a fire fighting method using super cold snow made from gas that blisters soda water. The liquid, cooled to 100 degrees below zero, is released to form snowflakes that are blown onto flames to quench the fire.
A line from a Kansas City Star piece recalls Audrey jeering at a film character pretending to be a director. She mocks him for not wearing puttees and his cap worn wrong side, in a moment of comic theater.
Crowded living conditions noted with ninety seven percent of the working class families in Bombay and Indy living in single room dwellings.
The London correspondent notes two Oxford items. Merton College unearthed a chamber six feet below ground, possibly the site of the old St John the Baptist church and an anchorite’s cell. Separately, firms were told to remove large street signs, seen as blight, signaling a push to restore Oxford’s old-time simplicity.
Liberty magazine features George Blumenthal praising Oscar Flammerstein for solving theater acoustics. He notes Flammerstein built his own theatres first, using roof and proscenium arch to enhance sound and even powdered glass in foundations. His methods drew both praise and criticism though the acoustics were highly regarded.
Locusts infested 21 towns in seven provinces by April, up from seven towns in March. The agriculture board deployed 45 inspectors and two airplanes to protect crops, but the pest march continued with heavy damage to farmland and harvests.
Portland Maine longshoreman Percy Gratfam, famed for extraordinary grip strength, masterfully lifts eight standard pool balls with one hand and demonstrates sweeping arm movement afterward in a remarkable display of dexterity.
Workmen unearthed two tusks of a prehistoric monster beneath a London street. Experts will examine the bones to determine the creature. The monster is thought to be among extinct animals that roamed Middlesex forests about 200000 years ago.
A quip from H. W. Davis in the Kansas Medical Journal declares that a country doctor is anyone who can set a broken bone with improvised tools on a farmhouse kitchen table in the middle of the night.
A Paris court awarded twenty thousand francs in damages to a cook knocked down by a taxi, his olfactory nerves damaged. The cook’s counsel argued that the sense of smell is essential to a cook, though the court’s ruling focused on the injury and compensation.
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