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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1897
Page
4
A reflective verse recalling grandfather’s old family portrait and the dawn of daguerreotype photography. The piece contrasts past racial caricatures with the looming arrival of Conjurer Daguerre, framing photography as a blooming art rationalized through memory and aspiration.
The ad touts Ayer's Sarsaparilla as making new men and cleansing skin by purifying the blood. It claims thousands posed for photographs with blemish free complexions and asserts imitators cannot match its proven record.
The column recaps sharp remarks on marriages and social slights, citing Beresford’s young bride and a Georgia feud, then shifts to medical cures and remedies from De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve to Simmons Liver Regulator, and ends with a street altercation at Leach's corner where Col. Thurman suffered a broken arm after being struck by J. S. Brown.
Claims the salve heals every ailment except a broken heart. It treats piles and rectal diseases, cuts, burns, bruises, tetter, eczema and all skin troubles quickly and permanently. Dr W L Carmichael & Co.
T. A. Slocum, M. D., offers three free bottles of his New Discoveries for consumption and bronchial diseases to Jackson Argus readers. He claims his treatment cures lung troubles in any climate and urges sufferers to write for prompt shipment, noting letters of gratitude in his labs worldwide. Include a post office and express address and mention the Jackson Argus.
Quinces suffer from four main diseases Leaf Blight and Fruit Spot Quince Rust Black Rust and Twig Blight. Remedies include Bordeaux spraying for leaf blight and fruit spot and for rust destroy nearby cedar trees and spray with fungicides. Clean culture helps prevent black rust and destroy mummified fruit then late spraying of copper carbonate solution aids recovery. Twig Blight requires cutting and burning affected branches.
The answer emphasizes preventive measures rather than cures. Bordeaux mixture and fungicides offer little help once infection starts. rotate crops and destroy smut before maturity. Cut and bury or burn smut balls to prevent spore spread, and do not feed smutted corn to animals as spores survive digestion and contaminate manure. State Agricultural Department.
Farmers in the section report the crops cheaper and less troublesome than in recent years with crops in every way as satisfactory as possible given the circumstances.
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