Local Government and School Officials List
A dense roll of county and city officials including mayor Rh Baker and trustees H B Smith and B F Anderson. It enumerates town and county officers such as clerk, tax collector, receiver, surveyor, tax assessors, and the county board of education with names and titles for governance and schooling authorities.
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Trustees City School
C. G. Walden
John HH. Moore
Craig R
Arnold Sheriff
M. Davison
Tee Ee
H. B. Smith
Decretary
Treas
Anderson County
Gogo Roy
W. B. ‘Townsend
F. Christian
Alfred Grizzle Moco
Ates
A. Head
W. L. Ash
Mountain Inn Opens for Transient Guests in North Georgia
The Mountain Inn welcomesTransient guests and travelers to North Georgia. The property boasts electric lights running water acres of park shade and cool surroundings. Craig R Arnold is proprietor promoting the inn as a premier resort destination with fine meals and modern comforts.
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North Georgia
Craig R. Arnold
Candidate for Judge Northeastern Circuit of Georgia
Announcement by J B Joxus dated February 22, 1918 requests Democratic primary support for his bid to be judge of the Northeastern Circuit of Georgia. He pledges full-time service, orderly docket disposition, and courts from Monday to Saturday if needed. He asks voters for consideration and reelection intent.
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Georgia
J.B. Joxus
Pure Herb Tables Claim Broad Health Benefits
Purporting to aid digestion rheumatism and blood ailments the ad says Pure Herb Tables improve digestion cleanse kidneys regulate liver and bowels and purify blood with no weakening effect. Three months treatment per box or money back. Box mailed for one dollar from Pure Herb Tablet Co Ashland Ohio and Dahlonega Ga agent W B Townsend.
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Pure Herb Tablet Co
Ashland
Ohio
W. B. Townsend
Dahlonega
Women Seek Voluntary War Ration Plan in New York
American women endorse a voluntary rationing plan inspired by the English model. The proposed weekly per person limits cover meat, butter, cooking fats, flour, sugar, and a victory bread containing substitutes, while milk, dairy, fish, poultry, vegetables, and fruits remain unrestricted. The plan aims to supplement the Home Card and unify households nationwide in conserving food.
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America
God Administration
Food Administration
England
United Kingdom
New York City
Evergreen dress for statuettes in Chinese gardens
Chinese gardeners plant statuettes of small men in pots and train evergreen vines to grow over them. The vines form a leafy robe around the statues, with the statuette faces and hands peeking through the greenery.
All Can Do a Little
A compact statement from Huxley on reducing ignorance and misery in the world. The speaker urges individuals to influence their surroundings, even if only slightly, to improve the condition of others.
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Earth
Huxley
Old Christmas Day Observed in Julian Calendar
Old Christmas Day is marked by Russia and the Greek church on January 6 under the Julian calendar, with New Year's Day observed on January 18 due to a 13 day difference from the Gregorian system.
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Russia
Advice to Sentimental Lovers Sparks Timely Courage
A Times-Dispatch column notes that when a man loves, he should boldly confess rather than endure repressed feelings that threaten to explode like spontaneous combustion. The author quips about the folly of waiting and urges frank, timely action.
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Richmond
Times-Dispatch
The Boss's Weakness
Tillie Clinger notes she hates taking dictation from her new boss because he cannot talk while chewing tobacco and cannot think when not chewing. The Galveston News reports this quirky observation about workplace habits.
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Tillie Clinger
Galveston
Golfers wear horse blinders to sharpen focus
An innovation pairs horse blinders with golf gear to help players concentrate amid practice and play. The device aims to dampen distraction and curb frustration while on the course.
Gotham Village Reputed Home of Wise Men of Gotham
The article notes Wise Men of Gotham hailed from the village once called the original Gotham near Nottingham England, a name later applied to New York as its fictional Gotham. The piece outlines the historical nickname and its geographic roots.
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Wise Men’s Town
Gotham
New York
Nottingham
England
Not Much of a Hardship in Food Regulations
A rural voice quips that food rules restricting options mainly to cornbread and chicken imply little hardship. The speaker, Uncle Eben, argues the diet focus is simple and manageable despite regulation.
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Uncle Eben
War era potato surplus boosts food program demands
Government experts report over 700000 extra acres planted as the United States food Administration integrates potatoes into substitute lists with wheat flour. A tested wartime recipe uses potatoes milk onion butter substitute flour salt celery salt pepper cayenne parsley and barley for a nutritious potato soup.
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United States Food Administration
Before or After the Fact in the Motorcar Game
A foxed clipping notes a mob of unprincipled persons in the motorcar trade, with accusations that accessories explain much of the scheme. The piece hints at corruption in the automobile business and implied criminal activity.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Hope's Limitations as a Floating Buoy Insight
Dickens notes in Dom by and Son that hope acts like a buoy: it can float but cannot steer, illustrating a restrained view of optimism and agency. The line contrasts buoyancy with direction, implying hope lacks control over fate.
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Charles Dickens
Sugar Certificate Plan Aims for Limited Caning Purchases
In Georgia 25 pounds of sugar can be bought for canning under a certificate plan directed by Dr. Andrew M. Soule. Purchasers pledge to use sugar only for preserving and not to sell or loan it. Retailers must verify purchases and ensure limits, with certificates issued by dealers.
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Georgia
Andrew M. Soule
U. S. Food Administration
Food Administration
Danger of famine from Farm Life piece
A Farm Life excerpt cites Lord Rhondda on global food shortages. It highlights a looming famine and urges readers to act to save the world from starvation, noting some people tire of hearing about shortages.
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Lord Rhondda
India
Life's Inspirations for Courage and Right Doing
A reflection on how acts of virtue inspire others to be brave and strong. The message stresses that a life achieves real success only when it spreads inspiration along the way.
Potatoes urged to move from farms to tables nationwide
The Food Administration launches a mass campaign to promote free marketing and eating of potatoes. Cooperation from all potato trade groups, state and local authorities, and the press aims to move America’s large 1917 crop to consumption as rapidly as possible to prevent unsold stock and help cut national wheat usage by 50 percent.
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Food Administration
America
The
Kitchen Receipts for Gingerbread and Maple Frosting
A recipe card lists ingredients for Columbia Gingerbread including oleomargarine sugar molasses sour milk flour ginger soda salt and spices. Directions describe creaming butter and sugar then folding in eggs molasses and sour milk, adding dry ingredients, baking 25 minutes. Maple Frosting uses maple syrup egg whites cream of tartar and more syrup, heated until threads form then beaten into stiff whites and spread on cake.
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Columbia
Birds Singers and Their Harsh Urban Notes
A playful portrait of birds named by their song matching city noises. The bluebird and bobolink are described as singing with watery and grassy melodies, while the sparrow is linked to urban clatter from hooves, trains, and whistles.
Beware of the Kissing Palm in a Opinion Piece
A correspondent warns of a plant named kissing palm that causes an irresistible urge to kiss everyone nearby. He notes it affects all ages and genders, and resists no one, labeling it dangerous and unsuitable for a respectable home.
Room for Many in Venezuela Population Sparse Spots Cited
The article notes Venezuela covers 1,020,400 square kilometers with an estimated population of 2,824,934. Population concentrates in coastal and mountain districts while Apure Bolivar Delta Amacuro Amazonas regions show very low density.
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Venezuela
Republic of Venezuela
Apure
Bolivar
Delta-Amacuro
Amazonas
New York Fire Bells and their vanished towers
The article recalls New York once had eleven wooden fire bell towers across Manhattan. A writer in 1887 claimed the bells rang at least 500 times per year, totaling 865 days. One alarm bell remains mounted at the top of Mount Morris Park in Harlem.
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New York
Manhattan
Mount Morris Park
Harlem
Rattlesnake Rattle Development Described
The rattle forms from the final tail scale, an epidermal spine, developing as the tail skin. In young rattlesnakes the rattle begins with the skin covering the last caudal vertebra, marking the start of the rattling mechanism.
Perpetual Vision Inspires Virtue and Freedom
A quotation attributed to Victor Hugo links a perpetual vision of a brighter world to lifting labor, sanctifying toil, and shaping a man into wise, patient, just, benevolent, and worthy of intelligence and freedom.
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Victor Hugo
Noble Thoughts Turned to Noble Living
A reflective note urges turning fine thoughts into action and living nobly. It warns that ideas without noble living are sham and that the greatest poetry is lived, not written.
Quite a Difference. Lawyer and Man Debate Arrest Reason
A humorous exchange unfolds at the station as a lawyer questions the reason for a man’s arrest. Mike insists he drank one too much, prompting the lawyer to split hairs about intoxication versus bigamy, ending with a wry Life magazine style punchline.
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Mike
Treatment for Ferns With Tobacco Spray
Spray the fern once weekly with tobacco extract solution, using one ounce per gallon of water. If infection is severe, cut off the fronds and burn them.
Observer ponders bowlegs and knee bends in battle test
An Observer of Events and Things poses a rhetorical question about how a bowlegged soldier might react physically when facing the enemy for the first time. The remark blends humor with a study of readiness and fear in combat.
Paint Removal Guide From Hands
A short tip explains removing paint and varnish from hands by rubbing grease or lard into the skin, then washing with warm water and soap. The method aims to loosen the coating before cleansing to help cleanup.
Greece to Tax Churches and Monasteries at Set Rates
The government imposes an 8 percent tax on the annual income of every church in Greece and a 5 percent tax on monastery income. Penalties for evading these taxes are provided by law.
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Greece
Hard for Them
A brief Dallas News line notes it is hard for young men to appear wise amid a nation lacking shell-rimmed spectacles, a wry commentary on contemporary fashion and perception.
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Dallas News
Eighteen Years Later A Lone Island Woman’s Fate
A tale of a woman left behind on the Island of St Nicholas as padres moved natives to the mainland. A stormy voyage ends with her rescue after eighteen years. She had never found her child and died soon after relief came, having endured lonely life on the shore.
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Alexander Sakirk
Juan V Fernandes Island
Californiam
Santa Barbara
St Nicholas
Amthem
Miners Live Long In Face Of Fatal Accidents
The article notes that British miners have lower overall mortality than most male workers, with disease deaths well below average. Doctor Tatham reports coal miners face higher fatal accidents but much lower death rates from bronchitis and especially consumption, nervous system diseases, heart disease, and liver disease.
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Great Britain
Doctor Tathamy
Registrar General
Doctor Tatham
Niles
When Dog Sought His Master
A dog travels miles toward a city, driven by longing as dawn breaks over hills. He nears a bright skyline and the strange building where Tommy Warle and his master are said to be kept.
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Americam
Tommy Warle
Strength and Freedom in Woman's View of Power
A London Ideas excerpt argues that women admire strength more than virtue, equating it with lawlessness. It claims women favor ruthless leaders like Napoleon over poets, confusing independence with freedom while believing only the bound are truly free.
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Napoleon
London
Only He Didn't Show It
Edward and Stanley fight at school during recess. The teacher scolds both, praising Stanley for repentance and calling Edward hardened. Edward protests that his conscience hurts even though he cannot cry.
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Edward
Stanley
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