09 Jul 1897
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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1897
Page
1
Atlanta Ga July 1 1897 Cotton Bags For Fertilizers notes growing demand for 167 pound cotton bags for sacks of fertilizer. Highlights advantages such as durability and brand visibility, updates on Paris green mixing error, and urges spraying and insecticide use. Advises on plowing depth, crop rotation, sowing peas for forage, hog care, and fall crop planning per timing and region. Commissioner Neserret signs off.
An advertisement extols Chamberlain's remedy for stomach pain colic and cholera morbus claiming instant relief and universal efficacy. It lists advantages including curing chronic diarrhoea preventing bilious care and treating epidemical dysentery. The copy cites user testimonials and notes prices and availability through druggists.
This ad promotes Ayer’s Hair Vigor as the best preparation for hair health. It claims the product nourishes roots, removes dandruff, cleanses the scalp, and helps bald heads grow hair when roots exist. It also suggests restoring gray or faded hair color.
An agricultural advisory column surveys the South’s wealth sources including cotton grain rice sugar tobacco and other products. It argues most wealth leaves the region via imports and external investments and urges domestic production banking and manufacturing to achieve independence. It also covers rose rust treatment for hybrid perpetuals and hollyhock rust.
Prominent New York chemist T A Slocum announces a free offer of three different bottles of his new scientific treatment for consumption and bronchial diseases to readers of The Jackson Argus. He claims thousands cured worldwide and urges sufferers to write to 98 Pine street New York with address to receive the remedies.
A reader reports slow sorghum growth with dying lower leaves and red spots. Experts identify root disease as the cause, recommend crop rotation and burning of plant residue, and caution about stomach health with a light plug for Shakers Digestive Cordial, offered at 10 cents.
Doctors advise LAXOL as the preferred medicine for children, recommending it over Castor Oil due to its safer profile and gentler action on young patients.
The excerpt describes two closely resembling beetles: the genuine Colorado potato beetle attacks potatoes and other plants, while a non attacking lookalike prefers horse nettle. For full details, write to Mississippi Experiment Station bulletin No. 41. Also given is onion sowing timing in Macon latitude: sow mid September to late September, transplant later, with mulching if winter is cold.
The soluble phosphoric acid is fully soluble in water and immediately available to plants. Reverted phosphoric acid becomes soluble through water and soil action, thus considered available to crops. Insoluble phosphoric acid resists dissolution and offers no quick benefit to growing plants. Available phosphoric acid equals soluble plus reverted amounts.
The advertisement stresses that itching signals a blood disorder not the disease itself and promotes S S S as a superior blood remedy. It cites Mr. William Armstrong of De Pere Wisconsin, recounting eight years of eczema relief after S S S treatment and asserts S S S cures eczema and many other blood-origin diseases.
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