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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1926
Page
1
G L Wanpen as administrator applies to the Ordinary for leave to sell the realty and personalty of J N Satterfield deceased to pay debts and for distribution. Hearing set for the first Monday in October 1926 during the regular term of Court of Ordinary. Dated September 10 1926.
The piece argues Georgians should oust the political machine in state government. It contrasts L. G. Hardman with Holder, praising Hardman's business record and road, school, and fiscal stewardship while urging a large victory to finish cleaning up Georgia before a new two-year term begins.
A new oil electric car designed for the Canadian National railways completed a Montreal to Vancouver journey of 2987 miles in 67 hours. The engine never stopped running and the trip set the fastest time on record for that distance.
While digging for a new house in Assisi Italy archeologists uncovered Travertine blocks Hermes fragments and an eight column staircase likely Etruscan. If confirmed the find challenges the belief that the Tiber split Etruscan Perugia from Roman Assisi and alters local legends about Assisi relics linked to St Clare.
Andorra the Pyrenees valley republic reports adherence to an opium treaty via France while denying full sovereignty. It acknowledges two overlords, France and the bishop of Urgel, who holds temporal power in Europe. Taxes total 960 francs to France and 460 pesetas to the bishop.
Gov. George A. Parks describes Alaska as a premier big game hunting region. He notes the brown bear is unique to Alaska and the white mountain sheep, moose and caribou as giants and abundant. Sitka deer and mountain goats are plentiful along the southern coast, drawing hunters and tourists.
In Kurna at the Tigris and Euphrates junction an old tree known as the Tree of Knowledge drew British troops who posed for photos. Three were court-martialed after persistently taking pictures, with the indictment accusing them of breaking a limb from the tree in the Garden of Helen.
A French inventor claims to have perfected a perpetual motion clock after 36 years of work. The timepiece weighs 1100 pounds, stands twelve feet tall, six feet wide and three feet six inches deep. It comprises 12 000 pieces and includes six secondary dials.
Small Gambusia fish from the California Academy of Sciences are shipped to the Philippines India Tahiti and other tropical ports. They are valued for aquarium use and as hardy mosquito larva eaters. Their upward projecting jaws enable feeding at the water surface where wigglers gather.
During England's strike a volunteer driver of the London Liverpool express brought the great train into Liver Pool 25 minutes early. Passengers urged him to accept thanks, but the pale faced cab man modestly said he only learned how to stop the train ten minutes earlier and asked them to thank God.
The Navy department has developed a two cylinder aircraft engine using heavy oil. If tests continue to show promise, Popular Science Monthly notes a more powerful version will be built. Invented by A. P. Attendy, the engine is valued for dirigibles as its fuel is nearly inflammable.
Engineers estimate restoration of river fed canals could reclaim twice the Nile valley area in Iraq. The plan envisions spending six dollars per acre to yield eighty one dollars per acre return, though the time frame is not specified in the report.
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