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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
2
A reunir of Georgia items covers wartime sentiment, tax notes, crime, prices, weather, and local quirks. Reports include Germans at war, hog cholera, bank robberies, rabbit drives, and a 4,000 casualty French munition ship explosion near Halifax. Also noted are female conductors in New York and peculiar police actions in Atlanta.
A sprawling community notice lists wartime concerns from food and meatless days to soldiers in camps and national finances. It cites the Jacob Jones sinking, blockades trials in Columbus, and local issues such as stamps and mail handling, while urging thrift and support for families and soldiers.
Georgia Lumpkin County court notices warn that on October 15 1917 Daniel Davis filed a mortgage foreclosure suit against C McDonald returnable to the April Term 1918 begin April 8 1918 to answer the complaint Judge J B Jones presiding and clerk T F Christian. Also appoint administrator notice for W W Murray nonresident and probate term January first next. Ordinary W B Townsend presides.
An advertisement proposes Mall's Catarrh Cure taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure is a non prescription tonic from a physician. It offers testifiers and notes payment reminders from J. FE McGee & Co and G. E. Watpin asking immediate settlement to avoid trouble.
Sheriff’s sales set for the first Tuesday in January 1918 at the courthouse. Seized property includes a six horsepower gasoline engine and belt a portable wood saw and belt a one horse wagon a buck board and one hundred bushels of corn more or less to be sold by the bushel. Property levied on and sold as the defendant H C McGuire under an execution issued from the Superior Court of Lumpkin County in favor of the Bank of Lumpkin County dated November 28 1917.
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