Official Organ of Jackson and Butts County Advertiser Rates
A 1894 Jackson Georgia issue lists advertising rates and columns. It includes commentary attacking Evans and Atkinson over alleged lies, notes Harry Hill’s seven year penitentiary sentence for forging Mrs Porter’s signature, and a Western publisher quip about distribution to North and South America and beyond.
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Harry Hill
Mrs. Porter
North
South America
Canada
British Isles
Chicago Groom Loses Bride and Heirlooms After Wedding
A Chicago man married a bride provided by a matrimonial agency. Hours after the ceremony he lost the bride and soon afterward his gold watch diamonds and a roll of money vanished. He seeks recovery of the stolen items from the agency.
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Chicago
Benedict
Georgia Governors Lead State Troops Against Enemies
The Savannah Press notes Georgia leaders Command state troops with Northen the second to take the field and recalls Governor Troup in 1825 leading against Indians. An exchange remark warns debtors chasing fashion lose credit and social standing. In Pike County Mr Cole Nall exchanged $14,000 in cotton for $5 gold pieces and carried them to a farmer who buried the coins in a jug.
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Savannah
Northen
Georgia
Troup
Cole Nall
Nall
Mr. Nall
Pike County Journal
Jackson Moves Toward Metropolis Status in Georgia
The town of Jackson shows rapid growth in population from a 700 resident base in 1887 to a future metropolis. Citizens praise social advancement and refined newcomers while dismissing persistent grumbling as less influential. Local outlook stresses geographic advantage and collective effort to centralize regional needs.
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Jackson
Georgia
The National Headlight Salutes a Political Road Plan
The publication asserts that W F Smith aims to kill the Democratic party to promote street railway projects to Jackson, Cedar Rock Mountain Rock. It questions the need for new roads beyond existing charters and warns against burdens of debt, suggesting roads may fail if party opposition persists.
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Flovilla
S. Jack Smith
W. F. Smith
Democratic Party
Jackson
Cedar Rock
Mountain Rock
Scott
A Nation of Tiny Governments and a Cautionary Voice
The passage compares the many households in the country to separate governments, noting love as a root influence in most. It questions who can manage such a vast, collective entity, asserts that even a skilled statesman may fall short, and urges individuals to mind their own affairs rather than louder, unwarranted critique.
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Clevland
The Woman's Rights Poem and Georgia Cotton Comment
A historical piece presents a poetical definition of Woman's Rights praising moral duties from waking to comforting the distressed. It laments ignorance of the author. A closing quip comparisons Georgia politics and agriculture suggests political humor about cotton and can didates.
Rare offer bundles two papers for $1.25
Arrangements to club The Argus and Constitution for a limited price of $1.25 present a rare opportunity. The promotion emphasizes the cost savings and the chance to receive both papers together at a small total price.
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Argus
Constitution
Jackson
Chattanooga Medicine Co Wins Trademark Suit in Atlanta
The Chattanooga Medicine Co defeated an injunction attempting to bar use of the name Zhedford and M A Thedford Co on Black Draught in U S Circuit Court of Atlanta Judge Newman awarded costs to the plaintiffs Thedfords Black Draught has decades of use and advertising behind it with a large Chattanooga lab and a St Louis branch cited The firm also markets Celeree’s Winz of Cardus notables of integrity and fair dealing are claimed
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Chattanooga Medicine Company
U. S
Atlanta
Anl
Chattenooga Medicine Co
Chattenooga
Lookout Mountain
St. Lows
Celree
Candidate for coroner announces by claiming poverty and family facts
A man entered the office and declared his candidacy for coroner. He based his bid on being poor and father to three children, with the oldest short and the youngest small, and on his partial birth in Butte County and being born with no money.
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Butte County
Road commissioners urged to improve county roads
The column urges the county to repair deteriorating public roads. It cites a worst stretch near Jackson and argues that good roads raise adjacent property values. It praises local commissioners in Butts and warns against lagging behind in road improvements.
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Jackson
Butts
Offer for Constitution and Aravs One Year at $1.25
The notice urges readers to subscribe to the Weekly Constitution and the Aravs for a one year term at $1.25, available only for a few days longer. The appeal stresses urgency to act now before the offer ends.
New Order of Social Conditions and Local Gossip
Miss Kate McCarty visited Ballyshannon Ireland and was warmly greeted by locals after a big time there. Annie Balle O'Brien plans a Europe trip with sister Judy O'Brien while remaining on Fifty seventh Street. A village school job applicant quips about arithmetic versus grammar. Hon John Curfew, famed for long travels, shot and killed Jack Dobine over breakfast etiquette in this county.
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Kate McCarty
Fifth Avenue
Ballyshannon
Ireland
Annie Balle O'Brien
Fifty Seventh Street
Europe
Judy O’brien
Hunter
John Curfew
Jack Dobine
Missing word contest pays $1681 to 15 winners
January contest closes with 1,009 entries and 15 correct guesses. A total of 252.25 dollars is distributed, with each winner receiving 16.81 dollars, followed by a list of the names and places of the subscribers who matched the sentence missing word depraved in the Prussia education law item.
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Prussia
J. I. Hawkins
Dixon
February Contest Word Guess Puzzles Readers
In England the February topic was the prince of Wales affair and one living person knows the missing word. The envelope will be opened March first, and guessers receive a dividend share. Subscribing to The Constitution offers a year of home delivery and weekly content while entries are submitted with a clubbing subscription.
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England
Prince of Wales
The
Constitution
People
America
Missing Word Contest in The Weekly Constitution
In England the quarter’s hot topic was the Prince of Wales and the affair. One fourth of contest subscriptions goes to those supplying the missing word. If $5,000 total entries, $1,250 is shared. ten solvers get $125 each. 100 get $12.50. Two papers for $1.25.
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England
Prince of Wales
Constitution
Advertisement copy notice for upcoming issue
Notice to advertisers requires all new and changed ad copy be in the office by Monday each week to ensure appearance in the following issue. The request notes high volume and urges timely submission, mentioning some hard feelings.
Old Postage Stamps Wanted by Jackson Argus
Collector ad seeks early stamps from 1861 Southern cities and 1845 issues from New York Millbury Brattleboro New Haven St. Louis Providence and private firms. Purchases stamps on original envelopes. rewards 25c to 50$ each. Also buys coins Confederate and U S flags banners and relics tied to notable persons and events. Address Jackson Argus.
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Confederate States
New York
Millbury
Mass
Brattleborro
New Haven
U. S
Jackson Argus
Local Blacksmith Offers Horse Shoeing at 60 Cents
Notice from L. M. Maston at Burford’s old stand one mile north of town promises good cheap shop work and horse shoeing for sixty cents. Calls for customers to visit, dated December 18 1893.
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Burford
L. M. Maston
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N. J. Harmon
J.G. McDonald
Editors and Publishers
Official Organ OF
Butts County
Muller
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Evans
Atkinson
Geogia
Union
Jackson High Crade
EUTAW
Batts
Jackson High
Eutaw Acid Phosphate
Reenuitte
Suultic
W. M. Mallett
SONY
Hiller
Bay Y Watches
Jewelr
Anpalaree
Dempsey Hou Mulberry Sf
Jacksonga
Jackson Institute
Jass C. Blasingame
R. Cohen
Bro
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Cincinnati
Fa Vv. & Ga
Amvixwra Wmwanna
Goa i
Florida
Mallive Awmarwis
Jacksonville
S. F
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Brunswick
A. M. Agh
A. M
P. M
Pasay
Lippman Bros
Proprietora, Bruggists
Lippman’s Block
Savaerah, GA
Whitehall
S. Broad
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
W.K. Douglas
Brockton
J. W.cruw
Axmong
American Home Journal
Bearborn Street
Macon
Cherry Street
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