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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1895
Page
3
Our sales for the season were strong despite a national financial lull. We hold more goods than needed at the annual lock and will continue to offer winter ads at reduced prices to clear stock for the coming spring.
A local store offers drastic reductions on clothing, dress goods, and blankets with single garments and fabric sold at two-thirds off or more. The sale aims to clear stock before spring, emphasizing lower prices than ever seen.
Daily carloads of fresh high grade supplies ignite interest in the Gro-Department as the most popular supply store in Jackson. The note thanks patrons, pledges better goods at lower prices than any house in Middle Georgia, and wishes friends a happy new year.
Jackson items show civic talk on cotton markets and rail expansion, with notes on officials like W. M. Mallet and J. O Rear. Local social updates include marriages, schools, new stores, theater tickets, and Mrs Emma Banks praising Miss Badger in New York.
Hot Shot reports on local politics with satire about marshal hopefuls and a light note on bailiff results. It covers Will Merritt’s marriage, a controversial fund for licenses, and a joke about council elections. John Hightower and Col A M Watkins travel in snow to Milner and back, aiding townsfolk and settling cases.
A folkloric verse recounts Adam urging Eve to depart the Garden after she eats the apple. Eve replies with a playful gag about lacking attire. The quip contrasts with remarks about Jews, labeling some as grand rascal and others honest, noting most honest are buried in a cemetery.
The piece promotes an Institute chapel entertainment by Miss Daisye Badger and Misses Jones and McKie with recitations statue posing violin solos and songs. It urges saving money at Jackson Banking Co and warns burglars target banks while highlighting insurance and local loans from Harmon McDonald and the Farmers Mutual Insurance Association. It references Uncle Jack Rich and local figures and notes past farm hardships and whiskey.
A 1895 letter from F B Herrman in New York to Frank Z Curry of Jackson Georgia asks about county loan prospects for the coming months and invites potential lenders to visit to arrange financing while promising money available.
A brief reads that a burglar targets typical hiding spots like a money in an old trunk or a stocking and advises depositing funds with Jackson Banking Co where the money is accessible daily at no cost. The note dates Jan 18 to 21.
If you wish to trade some hick ory, poplar or ash lumber for work, the Jackson Buggy Co. can accommodate you. Call and get terms, jan18-2t.
In Apalachicola Florida M P Bolpen writes that after seven months in bed and failed medical treatment he found relief after using P P P. The letter praises the remedy as life health and strength and notes the product is sold by Lippman Bros Savannah GA and by all druggists and general stores.
The largest stock of garden and field seed ever brought to the city is now available at Carmichael's Drug Store. This advertisement notes a broad selection and emphasizes the store as the destination for seeds in the area.
Case summaries report H Clifford of New Cassel Wisconsin cured of neuralgia rheumatism and great weakness after three bottles of Electric Bitters Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg Illinois healed of an eight year leg sore with three bottles of Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Amica Salve John Speaker of Catawba Ohio recovered from five fever sores on his leg after one bottle of Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen's Amica Salve. Sold by R G Bryans drug store.
Blacksmith Coal moves into the railroad warehouse as a short notice listing dated January 18 1941. The brief item notes the handover of coal supplies to the facility pending further inventory processing.
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