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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1902
Page
3
A collage of witty anecdotes and sermons of American life. Jests about judges, bankers, lawyers, lovers, and family misadventures unfold with moral quips and sly humor. Gossiping snippets from Georgia to Maine showcase strangers, wagers, romances, and everyday folly.
A satirical poem inserts a Hancock county woman seeking diabolic revenge on Bohemian Lewis for mocking babies. It then mocks marriage notices and a domestic-helpless couple, Sylvia Rhode and James Carnahan, with biting humor about cooking, money, and social pretensions.
A lengthy column rails at fashion fads and the so called caudal clutch, lampooning women who imitate masculine dress. It recounts a street scene where a woman clutched her skirt high, drawing ridicule, and ends noting some agree with the Devil on social fashions.
A retailer promotes a Sunday dinner service urging husbands to bring their wives for a ready to serve feast. The ad touts canned meats fish beef fruits and breakfast foods plus Postum and Grape Nuts and claims the best bread in Georgia and a stove friendly Sunday order ahead strategy.
The passage hometalks on taking up domestic duties and humor about rain scorched chickens. It then shifts to a Tennessee preacher joke about Cain's wife, and satirical asides from Capt O'Rear and George Bell about looking at pretty girls. It closes with a grim lifecycle view of a newspaper publisher at thirty-five to fifty.
An 19th century health note claims constipation poisons the body and causes headaches and eruptions. It promotes DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a gentle bowel stimulant that aids liver function without violent gripping, endorsed by W L Carmichael & Co.
Call on J A Plunkett Aora for before placing your ore coal lumber and all building materials. Office and mill.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as a one day cold cure. It promises refunds from druggists if the remedy fails and notes E. White Jroye’s signature on each box.
Advertisement announces sale of several small farms in 12 Putam County Georgia. Describes property details and terms. Note shows contact Jolly T. Deyxis of Meda TM for information.
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