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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1917
Page
2
The Dahlonega publication lists rural carriers, war talk, and local notes. It reports G W Gould’s death, a Maine tree planting, boll weevil concerns, potato bugs, and road deaths near Macon. It criticizes conscription talk, suggests dog taxes for war revenue, and lampoons local vagrancy enforcement.
Judge Newman offered moonshiners the chance to plead guilty at the November term so they may return home to grow crops. He argued that making food crops benefits families and the state more than jail or army service. The Banks County Journal notes velvet bean discussions and local farming observations. The piece also mentions church notices and a dictionary for sale.
A Georgia county publishes local notes including Memorial Day observances, travels of residents to Gainesville and Atlanta, a box of live hogs moved by auto, a college entrance for Rev. Robert Stuard, a court-house photo for a college catalog, revenue officers seizing liquor, minor accidents with a buggy, and church members in cross congregations arguing about next steps.
Twenty three named citizens are summoned to meet on the sixteenth day of July to pass upon ex-Ordinary Smiths claim against the county. The list includes Joseph Jones M Ferguson F N Seabolt John H H Summerour G M Dale Stephen Rice M C Long Jones H Satterfield J P Cronan C Porter J Sargent J M Hulsey Fred Chapman W D Haney James D Ash Moses A Moore J A Dockrey Sr J N Davis John H Moore B F Corbin J K P Lance O G Stevens Daniel Davis Craig R Arnold M C Chester L B Hatfield J M Jones and J M Duckett Wm L Satterfield John J Stargel.
The text urges immediate farming as men and teams are unavailable for other work due to wartime demands. It emphasizes farmers are busy preparing to feed themselves and others, with a single, critical moment to farm.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube. It argues local applications fail and catarrh causes nine of ten cases. It offers $100 for any deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes circulars and Hall's Family Pills.
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