18 Jan 1917
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Newspaper
Iuka Vidette
Location
Iuka, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1917
Page
1
A reflective verse urges keeping personal wrongs and skeletons concealed to spare others and oneself from pain. It warns against spreading rumors or public shaming and promotes silence as a prudent plan. The fragment ends with a garbled word.
The writer urges optimism about cotton despite boll weevil presence. Diversification and early planting help farmers stay ahead, with expectations of strong cotton demand and prices due to limited last year’s crop and East Asian demand. Emphasis on preparing ground early and working efficiently to yield big results.
A quotation in Campaign Literature extols selflessness as the rose’s fragrance when opened, warning that withholding love dulls the soul. The County Teachers’ Association met January 6 with debates on law, talks by ex teachers, and thanks for encouragement.
The January 1917 board proceedings record movements in county funds, warrants cancelled, balances on hand across General, Bridge, Agricultural, School, Road, Good Roads, Road Issue, Institute, and Building funds, plus detailed itemized bills and relief payments. Names such as J P Berlin, Mayor. Walter J P. H Honeycutt. J D Bullard. J H Owens appear in listed expenditures and conveyances. The board rejected high bids for road work and selected Iuka Guaranty Bank as county depository for 1917.
Health advert claims calomel harms the liver and touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute. The copy warns of cramping, nausea from calomel, and urges readers to buy a 250 cent bottle to avoid sickness and salivation. It claims the remedy restores energy and is safe for children.
Hastings Seeds offers the 1917 Seed Catalog free upon request. The catalog covers vegetables, farm grass, clover and flower seeds and includes a promotion for five free varieties of flowers. It urges reliable Hastings seeds to ensure a successful 1917 planting season and invites readers to request the catalog from J. G. Hastings Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Southern farmer H G Hastings urges real home gardening as a remedy to high store bills. He warns that partial gardens with a few crops fail to improve prosperity, stressing a full, well prepared garden kept through the season can supply much of a family’s living and reduce dependence on trade.
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