Announcement of Judicial Candidacy in Northeastern Circuit
Voters receive notices from candidates for the Northeastern Circuit of Georgia aiming for 1918 Democratic Primary. J C Bowards pledges full-time service and strict docket management to clear court business and hold hearings from Monday to Saturday as needed. J B Jones asks support for reelection as judge, promising fairness, continued public service, and asking voters to consider his proclamation in February 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aino
Judas
Georgia
Corrins Seeks Solicitor General Seat in Northeastern Circuit
Fellow citizens hear a Gainesville Bar veteran seeking the Solicitor General post in the Northeastern Circuit. Joseph G Corrins declares sixteen years practice, pledging to serve with ability and character if elected by the Democratic Primary and asks for votes and support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Josepu G. Corrins
Jackson Seeks Congress in Ninth Georgia District
R P Jackson announces candidacy for Congress in Georgia Ninth District subject to the Democratic Primary in 1918. He stresses duty to country during World War I, loyalty to democratic principles, and commitment to patriotism and persistent effort, asking for public support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Congressional District
Congress
Georgia
United States
R, P, Jackson
Pure Herb Tablets Offer Digestive Aid and Blood Purification
Advertises Pure Herb Tablets as a natural remedy for digestion liver and kidney function, claiming thorough system restoration without weakness. Promises immediate well feeling and near universal benefit with a three month treatment and money back guarantee. Boxes ship for one dollar from Pure Herb Tablet Co of Ashland Ohio, with agent W B Townsend in Dahlonega Georgia.
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Pure Herb Tablet
C O
Ashland
Ohio
W. B. Townsend
Dahlonega
Film Spread Over Water
Edward Bigelow explains in Boys' Life that a surface film of water acts like a thin elastic sheet. Experiments show how alcohol between splinters breaks the film and causes them to fly apart, and how camphor dissolves the film to let a splinter move forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Bigelow
Curse of Scotland Nine of Diamonds Legend
The nine of diamonds is blamed as Scotland’s curse with theories linking it to Culloden era orders for rebels, Slains Castle relics, a royal tax for jewels, and a tyrant king lineage. Marie Stuart is noted among critics who unfairly bear responsibility in legends about the card.
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Scotland
Duke of Cumberland
Slains Castle
Aberdeenshire
Marie Stuart
End of Bunyan’s Life in Quiet, Busy Final Years
The closing years of John Bunyan’s life were peaceful yet active, devoted to preaching and teaching. He died after exposure following a charity journey to Reading to reconcile a quarrel, drenched by rain, and never recovered, likely in late August 1688 at age sixty, buried in Bunhill Fields.
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John Sunyin
Vroude
Bunyan
John Morley
America
Beulah
Emmanuel
Reading
Bedford
London
Mr. Strudwick
William
Bunhill Fields
Origin of blotting paper from damaged stock in Berkshire
A Berkshire paper mill discarded faulty sizing and created blotting paper from the damaged stock. An angry proprietor penned a note on the condemned sheet, ink spread, and a use for absorbing ink emerged. Pink or red tints were used initially, later color mattered less than utility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkshire
England
Flapdoodle as Common Human Tool in Art and Life
The piece defines flapdoodle as a universal rhetorical device used across society from lovers and businessmen to clergy and critics. It claims it predates Solomon and pervades ordinary talk and high culture, shaping argument, evasion, promotion, and self-advancement globally.
Insomnia Linked to Noises Report Cites Brill View
Dr A A Brill of New York notes a musical genius troubled by insomnia despite loving music. He attributed sleeplessness to street noises and country night calls. The piece cites John Stuart Mill who hired a boy to drum beside his room to spark thought.
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A. A. Brill
New York
John Stuart Mill
Brill
Natural Mortar Beds and Ancient Stone Making
The article explains mortar as an ancient invention likely discovered by luck and notes that mortar beds in Texas and Kansas are sand clay and lime forming rock as they set. It describes sidewalk pavement of artificial stone made by moist concrete and drying, better than natural slabs and allowing expansion without breaking.
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Texas
Kansas
Shame and Forgetting in Madness
Dr Leon Emile Duval told the Clinical Society of St Elizabeths Hospital Washington that ashamed acts often vanish from memory. He explained that disgraceful deeds conflict with social norms and are quickly relegated to the unconscious by mentally unbalanced men.
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St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Washington
Leon Emile Duval
How Cold Changes Natural Sounds Across Seasons
A close observer notes two observable phenomena: sounds change with cold and warmth, and waters show color changes with seasons. Wind noise shifts from soft and mellow in summer to harsh in winter, while streams sound babbling in May to July and hoarse and gurgling in November and winter.
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St. Louis Globe Democrat
Animals spread disease says Popular Science Monthly
The essay argues animals such as horses, dogs, cats, cows, rats and fleas spread many diseases to humans. It claims glanders rabies flu and other syndromes originate with animals and notes milk products invite caution. It also links lice bedbugs flies and mosquitoes to yellow fever malaria and typhoid risks.
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Popular Science Monthly
Clearer Values in Winter Snow by a Farmer and Cattle
John Burroughs contemplates a winter scene of a farmer foddering cattle on snow. He speaks of movement, defined shapes, hay, cows, advancing stacks, and the sense of abundance amid white fields and drifted hills with a distant fox signaling the season.
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John Burroughs
Little Known of Shooting Stars
The article notes limited knowledge of shooting stars tracing to prehistoric times. It discusses an 1875 hypothesis that meteorites are fragments from small planetary bodies broken by volcanic explosions and gas expansions. It suggests meteoritic swarms cross Earth’s orbit, with many meteorites found in Arizona.
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Earth
Arizona
Popular Science Monthly
Value of Time and Promptness for Busy Lives
A Kentuckian learns to respect time when lateness costs him a fortune and irritates others. The piece argues time is precious, worth more to some than others, and urges forming the habit of punctuality as essential for business leaders and those with heavy schedules.
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Christian Herald
Fox the statesman and orator who shaped American independence
Charles James Fox, a prominent English statesman, entered parliament at nineteen and led the Whig opposition to George III and Lord North. He helped push reforms from Indian governance to libel law and abolition of the slave trade while overcoming royal enmity, and was famed as one of Britain's greatest orators.
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Charles James Fox
Admiralty
Lord Grenville
Fox
Interesting Old Egyptian Letters
The article notes widespread ancient Egyptian letter writing for all classes and occasions. It highlights parental encouragement to absent sons, responses of children to parents, and archetypes such as the spoilt boy, the diligent youth, and the prodigal son seeking forgiveness after hardship.
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Egypt
Canton the oldest city in southern China
Canton, oldest city in southern China, sits on a deep river effectively canalized to an estuary. Ships of 1,000 tons reach the city, while foreign vessels only reach Whampoa nine miles away with extensive docks. Loading is done by native boats outside the bar. The Boca Tigris widens the waterway, separating old and new town and forming a waterways life with a large houseboat population.
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Canton
Canala
China
Whampoa
Boca Tigris
The Mountain Inn Opens In North Georgia Resort Area
The Mountain Inn is now open for transient and traveling public in North Georgia. Proprietor Craig R. Arnold promotes electric lights running water and 80 acres of parkland with fine shade and cool surroundings as the finest resort in the region.
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North
Georgia
Beat
Ack
Craig R. Arnold
Sam Davis Place Lot 470 Seized in Lumpkin Sheriff Sale
Lumpkin County Georgia will sell at public outcry at the courthouse in Dahlonega on the first Tuesday in June 1918 between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M. the Lot of land No 470 in the 12th District and 1st Section Lage County containing about forty acres known as Sam Davis Place. Property levied April 28 1918 to satisfy a mortgage foreclosure in Luther Calhoun v G McGuire from Lumpkin Superior Court. Sale conducted by Sheriff J M Davis.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
Dahlonega
Lage County
Sam Davis
G. McGuire
Luther Calhoun
Superior Court
J. M. Davis
Notice of Forfeiture of Recognizance in Lumpkin County
The notice names Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as successor and cites A H Fowle principal and John D Dickson security in Lumpkin Superior Court Georgia. It states a bond for the appearance of A H Fowle to answer an indictment for cheating and swindling has been forfeited and scire facias issued. The parties are ordered to appear at the Lumpkin Superior Court on the third Monday in October to show cause why judgment should not be entered against them for the amount with interest and costs. Witness J B Jones Judge and T F Cngrsran clerk on April 28, 1918.
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A. H. Fowle
John D. Dickson
Lumpkin
Georgia
Eretam
Nereby
Superior Court
State of Georgia
J. B. Jones
T. F. Cngrsran
Lumpkin County
Sheriff Sale Notices in Lumpkin County Georgia 1918
Lumpkin County will sell at the courthouse on the first Tuesday in June 1918 the two parcels of lot 948 in the 12th district. Also additional land in the same lot and a soda fountain and store fixtures in the Howard Post Office Building in Dahlonega. All to satisfy a mortgage in favor of Bank of Dahlonega against H. C. McGuire. The sale includes mineral rights exclusion and is conducted by Sheriff J M Davus.
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Georgia
Lumpkin County
Said
Pigeon Roost
Calhoun Road
Howard Post Office
Dahlonega
Lampkin County
Andmere
West Main Street
Vandivere and Smith
H. C. McGuire
Superior Court of
Kin County
Bank of Dahlonega
Jm, Davus
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EAD
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Hugh M. Dorsey
John M. Slayton
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