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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1894
Page
4
An essay urging regular worship despite weather. Francis Ridley Havergal argues church attendance strengthens faith, supports ministers, and sets a Christlike example. It cites scripture and warns excuses reveal spiritual decline while stressing dedication to Sunday privileges.
A worn printer in debt dreams of Morpheus and an infernal trip to Hell. Satan shows a red hot punishments for nonpaying subscribers, including burning, grinding, and boiling torments. The dream haunts him as a practical joke, yet he recalls it with grim humor about those who save tin by skipping payments.
The Carnesville Tribune notes quips about two Georgia candidates for governor, mocks campaign rhetoric, and laments overproduction lowering cotton prices. It highlights a headline style referendum on electing officials and jokes about marriage ceremonies and public sentiment.
A humorous misprint ends a marriage notice with hominy instead of harmony. A second line notes Mrs. Mary Yellin Lease claims she is a mason. The Atlanta Constitution clothing offer will end soon and a promotion urges subscribers for two yapers at a price slightly above one.
The ad promotes a $1.25 yearly clubbing rate for home county news plus The Weekly Constitution of Atlanta. It highlights the Constitution as a leading farmer's paper with a 156,000 weekly circulation and famed contributors. Subscriptions extend to readers outside major cities, inviting names sent for interwarding to the offer.
A fragmented subscription pitch offers The Weekly Constitution NE Yur for only $1.25. It reads like a promotional note with unclear wording and stray terms.
The passage invites readers to fill a blank in a sentence about the navy’s current cruiser height. One fourth of net subscription receipts from entrants will be shared among correct answers, with prizes scaled by entries. The offer promotes two-for-one subscriptions and highlights The Weekly Constitution’s broad circulation and editorial stance.
J W Lee Son Almond Moon R G Bryans Co W L Carmichael A Wright Indian Spring A F White Co J G Kimbell Jenkimsburg M Cain Towaliga D J F M Kinard Towaliga G L Washington Worthville offer McElree s Wine and THEDFORD s BLACK-DRAUGHT. Arrangements TEC club Tuw Areas and Constitution for 1 25 limit two papers for a small price.
The Georgia Alabama Business College invites one merit student in each county to an unlimited scholarship covering the full course in Bookkeeping Shorthand Telegraph or Pen-art. The award is merit based and applicants should respond promptly to Wyatt and Martin in Macon Georgia.
Local retailer L. A. Cason's advertises a wide selection including shoes hats gloves hosiery corsets and other millinery options inviting readers to shop for all their needs.
Any person wanting first class work by a workman with 20 years experience in stone or brick such as dams blasting dynamite or stock houses or piers call on G. W. Watkins Jackson Ga Decllyr.
The books are open for street tax and are due now. Those subject are urged to pay at once. Dated February 7. J L Lyons U T R and C Office Western Union Telegraph Co.
The Chattanooga Medicine Company won a trademark lawsuit in the U S Circuit Court in Atlanta. Judge Newman dismissed the suit to bar use of Thedford and M A Thedford Co on Black Draught liver medicine, with costs taxed against the plaintiffs. Thedford’s Black Draught has long been a standard, widely advertised remedy.
In promotion for practical business training the Ga. A la Business College of Macon Ga is praised as a fast and cheap path to a career. Six graduates placed last week as bookkeeping telegraphy or shorthand outcomes, with 20 to 30 dollar costs in six to ten weeks. Wyatt and Martin principals Macon Ga are urged to contact now for better terms.
Kinard's Mills in Towaliga Georgia run by water are well equipped and grind 60 to 90 bushels per day. Miller J C Moore keeps fresh ground meal available for exchange with corn. Meal and flour on hand for sale at market price. Administration by J K Carmiowar on February 8 1894.
Dr. George F. Payne reports at the Georgia State Agricultural Society in Brunswick on growing watermelons again on the same land. He details a lab experiment burning a large Augusta melon to ashes to measure nutrient removal, noting watermelons remove substantial potash and modest nitrogen while phosphoric acid loss remains modest compared with cotton or corn.
Agricultural notes outline per acre fertilizer plans using dried blood or cottonseed meal, nitrate of soda, and phosphates with sulphate of potash to restore nutrients after a melon crop. It cites potash and available phosphoric acid costs, per ton formulations, and estimates that 185 pounds per acre can return key nutrients for melon production.
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