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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1895
Page
2
The paper notes subscription at $1.00 yearly and advertising rates of five cents per line per insertion. Obituaries cost $1.00 each. Full schedule available on request. Remittances accepted by bank draft, money order, or registered letter. unregistered currency sent at owner’s risk. Published weekly on Fridays.
Jackson and Butts county should use the Southern Railway free advertising program tied to the Atlanta exposition. The piece urges residents to submit property details to the Arcus office, form a committee to create promotional material, and leverage access to thousands of future settlers drawn by favorable climate and opportunities.
A Georgia drummer recounts a wild Florida field tale with a blue snake and swollen hoe handle yielding lumber, shingles, and church flooring. The piece ends noting southern bans on women in bloomers as modesty clash with new woman ideals.
War correspondent E W Barrett praises Japan as a progressive nation adopting Western ideas, citing military, education, and industry. He notes government press control and foresees future freedom of speech as a step forward, while mockingly criticizing Hoke Smith's influence on the Atlanta Constitution's money coverage.
A composite page notes Tom Watson on democracy as liberty, Germany’s censorship of socialist writings, and U.S. currency discussion favoring a joint gold and silver standard. It references public talk on bimetalism, critiques of experiments with finance policy, and a mixed ad block promoting a medical remedy for female ailments.
A Georgia agricultural summary explains cotton should be lightly plowed in late summer to protect squares and bolls, while corn fodder pulling is debated. It urges green curing for silos, recommends pasture and forage plans, and discusses fall sowing of oats, clover, grasses, and fall crops for protection and yields. It highlights cotton picking, baling, and the Georgia Exposition at Atlanta with invitation for regional crop samples.
An ad promotes Electric Bitters as a safe tonic for old people needing bowel and kidney regulation. It stresses no alcohol, mild stomach action, and improved digestion with added strength, calling it the exact remedy for the aged. Price is fifty cents per bottle at W L Carmichael's drugstore.
Practical guidance lists fertilizer blends for wheat including cottonseed meal and acid phosphate with potash, and nitrate of soda with kainit. It also details Southern Stock Farm methods to cure sorghum hay, drying on ground, turning, forming a cock, settling the pile, fermenting for two to three days, and exposing to sun before storage.
Send your address to H E Bucklen Co Chicago for a free sample of Dr King’s New Life Pills. The pills ease constipation and headache and aid malaria and liver troubles. Purely vegetable and non weakening, they invigorate the digestive system. Regular size 25 cents, sold by W L Carmichael druggist.
Reader questions cover southern timothy adaptation, bone meal types and crop uses, lucerne sowing, terrace building methods, and celery for home or market. Practical guidance includes soil prep, heavy manuring, drill sowing, and long term terracing maintenance.
D W Fuller of Canajoharie New York says he keeps Dr King’s New Discovery at home and his family always sees the best results. G A Dyke, a Catskill New York druggist, calls it the best cough remedy and reports eight years of use with consistent claims. Trial bottles are free at all drug stores with regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar.
The State Commandery of the Knights of the Maccabees in Lincoln Nebraska reports that after trying other medicines a persistent cough in two children was cured in two days by Dr Kings New Discovery. They state they will not be without it and note guaranteed results with trial bottles free at Dr W L Carmichael's drug store. Regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar.
Advertises Electric Bitters as a remedy for loss of appetite constipation headaches fainting spells nervous sleeplessness melancholy and dizziness. Claims to strengthen organs and provide health with a 50 cent large bottle available at drug stores.
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