20 Aug 1897
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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1897
Page
1
Local items report visitors in Jackson and nearby towns, business notices from Harmon & Co and Allen & Co, advertisements for Dr. Tichenor's Antiseptic, a court house contract, and community remarks from Amory and St Martinsville including a mad dog killed and a life insurance payout.
A vegetable tonic Simmon s Liver Regulator is praised for being easy to take in liquid or powder form and for quick relief from constipation biliousness sick headache and dyspepsia. Rev J M Rollins of Fairfield Virginia calls it a very safe and valuable family medicine.
Mrs Gresham travels to Baltimore to select millinery for the Globe Store. Local readers hear a call to support Jackson Institute graduates. Misses Vellar Harper Eva Mason and Atha Key visit the city as Mrs Parry Lee’s guests. Hanes the Jeweler promotes a cut price cash sale through August with stock reductions by September 1.
Messrs R S Brown and J H Carmichael with wives depart for New York and Baltimore and other eastern cities to purchase a vast fall and winter stock for their mammoth concern. They are top buyers in the state and promise heavier purchases than before. Their stores occupy over half a block and offer wide selection at lower prices. The Carmichael Co. is hailed as a great business.
Electric Bitters is a seasonal tonic claimed to cure languor, liver sluggishness, and bilious fevers. It promises relief from headache indigestion constipation dizziness and malaria poison with prompt use. Sold at drug stores for 50 cents and 1 dollar per bottle.
The firm of J. B. Holts & Co. of Columbus will have a buyer at the Star store this coming season. Mr. C. D. Hunt arranged the deal and Holts & Co. intends to pay liberally for cotton. New buyers are expected to arrive and Jackson's cotton market will be a live one.
A Live man can secure a bargain in town property at Jenkinsburg by calling on Harmon & Co. at this office.
Mr Obe Hendrick, chairman of the county democratic committee, paid a twelve month subscription in advance from Allen & Co's. Prof Claude Gray of Locust Grove Institute expects a strong fall term and starts the session with enthusiasm. Misses Katie Ola and Lula Edwards of Newton county visited J A Pluncket's family with Willie. My son burned his arm. Dr Tichenor's antiseptic did not blister. The first Presbyterian service was held with Rev J F Pharr preaching to a large audience. Cape Harwell notes seats are too comfortable to keep readers awake.
A Greeneyillemar received a rabbit foot presented by his wife before their marriage. The foot came from a rabbit shot by the young woman. The talisman has brought only good luck to the owner, who values it above a stake in a Klondyke claim.
Mrs. Felton denounces lack of religious and judicial resolve urging lynching as a remedy to protect women from violence. In Georgia, Aug 15, Monticello reports ex-Sheriff W H Phillips fatally stabbed Walter L Roby at a barbecue over debt, with public unrest and ongoing pursuit.
Dr and Mrs G H Carter return from a summer journey to the North Carolina mountains, reporting a very pleasant trip and renewed vigor.
Mrs. C. E. Carter, a prominent Concord woman, was in the city this week visiting relatives. She is the sister of popular county school Commissioner C. S. Maddox, and has many local friends pleased to see her.
Advocates call for an intermediate county court to handle misdemeanors efficiently. They argue a wisely established and officered court would be popular and prompt, aiding suppression of offenses in many cases.
A nutritional tonic claims to cure dyspepsia by supplying pre digested food and aiding digestion. The pamphlet urges readers to consult their druggist for details on this digestive aid.
A new process makes Laxol castor oil sweeter than honey. Children like it.
An old advertisement touts S S S as a guaranteed pure vegetable blood remedy. It cites a Marion Kansas case of a granddaughter thrown from a horse whose scalp wound and spreading sores allegedly healed after S S S treatment, asserting the cure for contagious blood poison, scrofula, eczema, cancer, rheumatism, and catarrh.
An advert promotes a vegetable-based remedy free of mercury or mineral drugs. It invites readers to request variable books by mail from Swift Specific Company in Atlanta Georgia.
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