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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
4
In Seguera Temple Japan a yearly gowa rite honors Acalana the servant of Buddha by burning to curb desires. A curious aside recalls a veterinary surgeon asked to judge a horse's roar, with the claim the man’s tale would prove the animal’s condition.
A brief quip from Youth's Companion notes that discussing others amplifies difficulties and distances friends, urging discretion in conversations.
The United States filed a petition in the Northern District of Georgia to condemn 1522 acres of lands in Union County tied to multiple landowners and estates. The notice calls nonresidents and unknown heirs to appear at the Atlanta court on October 29 1917 to contest or claim rights, with the clerk’s seal affixed.
The dealer reports last year’s Ford sales at 149 with an estimated 178 and this year’s estimate at 182. Demand is higher but cars are scarcer. 20 units have already been sold on the new estimate, and orders must be placed in advance. They urge buyers to arrange winter delivery to avoid missing spring stock.
A fragmented OCR item lists agents and counties including Hall Country Humphries Motor Company Lumpkin White Forsyth Dawson plus Strickland Wisdom and Forsyth Dawson in a regional agency roll call. The text implies a legal or agency directory snippet without narrative context.
Meadowsville claim by Cynthia Higginbotham explains improved digestion and strength after using Black Draught for lazy liver and constipation. The ad promotes seventy years in use and urges readers to cleanse the system with a 25 cent package sold by druggists with one cent per dose.
Prisoners at a Delaware County workhouse refused to return to jail unless a fellow inmate with vermin was freed. Superintendent James Cole recounted the scene as inmates threatened to flee rather than ride back with him, prompting the man to escape and effectively ending the strike.
The Belgian town of Ypres gains in English lore as "Wipers" among British soldiers who held the Ypres salient. The name crosses to Britain via speeches and popular usage, with ties to the old linen term telle d yper meaning costly table linen or diapers.
Dr James Kerr of London County Council public health department lectured on eye response to brightness and contrast. He described strain from red and black figures, noting headaches from mixed ink colors and questioning whether a bright disk on black is clearer than a diffusely lit backdrop.
In Redden Delaware a local youth, impersonating a bear to scare residents, was chased by gun toting townsmen. He was shot at and badly beaten before his identity surfaced, following weeks of bear sightings in the village.
A Paris divorce case uses a moving picture film showing a procession of Italian delegates and a wife seen with a stranger in a taxi. The London Globe notes many unrelated Windsor namesakes in London, from solicitor to grocer, sharing the royal surname.
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