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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1895
Page
2
Local display notices priced at 5 cents per line per insertion and obituaries at 1.6 dollars each. Full schedule available on request. Remittances by bank draft post office money order or registered letter. postal notes or currency not registered are at owner's risk. Published every Friday in the year.
The editor defends the Flovilla Headlight against accusations of bias toward Arcus, pledging to advocate relief for the common class. He urges balanced debate on money issues, previews an approaching business revival, and notes local items from Clara Meer to Twain’s fortunes and Col J W Robertson’s article.
The Vanderbilt palace in Newport New Jersey opened to 200 guests valued at millions. The event showcased vast spending and its claimed benefits to laborers, while notes on local papers and personalities accompany features about fairs, a cool church, and an Atlanta exposition wheel.
A farmer laments crop woes and livestock disasters in a humorous, picaresque speech. He complains frost ruin, raiding neighbors' birds, and animals causing chaos from hens destroying seed to a cow climbing his arbor. He lists numerous misfortunes including hens, worms, a hornless cow, measles in a pig, and geese seeking water.
A Western Alabama editor describes a local theatre as rehearsed to perfection while bowing to remorse for deceit in print. The clipping notes printers' misprint turning parts into pants and hints at ominous secrecy in a swamp as the tale unfolds. The piece also flags Tom Watson opposing Populists allying with Democrats at silver conventions, urging independent action and a populist bandwagon approach.
Secretary Morton’s exhibit details that three quarters of 1894 exports worth 889 million dollars were agricultural products and over half, 451 million, went to Great Britain. British trade surplus and high imports from other nations illustrate Britain as the main customer for U.S. exports and a key factor in policy considerations.
A local record states three African American individuals in Lee County have ages that sum to 310 years. The notice provides no further names or dates.
Circuit Judge John M. Rice of Louisa Lawrence County Kentucky recounts a six year illness from rheumatic sciatic pain liver and organ derangement. After failed Hot Springs and Silurian Springs treatments he credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health and liver function. He says the pills saved his life and notes they cost 50 cents a box or six boxes for 2.50 from druggists or Schenectady NY company.
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