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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1919
Page
2
Fragments from a Friday publication report Tennessee ratifying prohibition, shipments of liquor to Macon, andAtlanta mail service plans. County dockets, flu deaths, burglaries, pensions, convict gangs, and local incidents across Georgia are sketched with names and locales such as Chatham DeKalb Rabun Lumpkin and Jackson counties.
Reports from Georgia and beyond cover influenza surges in Chattanooga and rising death tolls in Georgia, the bone dry law ratifications, and assaults on Prohibition enforcement. Mentioned are Milledgeville fires, Camp Wheeler aid, and shifting cotton prices. Also noted are politics, war mail issues, and local editorials from the Banks County Journal.
The report mentions Homer the office devil suffering a severe flu for a week while plowing began on the college farm last Wednesday. A Dawon county shooting death of Mrs. Peek is reported. Wm. Sather field is seriously ill, and the Atlanta federal prison lists ten preachers and four editors behind bars. Local fines were issued to several youths in Dahlonega for drunken behavior. The paper asks patrons to bear with any missed news due to being close to the office all week. A lengthy patron list from multiple towns follows.
A 1919-era notice touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine with a $100 reward for cures and cites testimonials from Toledo. It also advertises a Georgia land sale in Lumpkin County: 120 acres in Joseph Brown farm area, part of Mary A Free estate, with a January sheriff's sale for debt satisfaction and proceeded by M. Jackson County executions.
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