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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1897
Page
6
A brief note recalls President Polk in the White House and Doctor Ayer in Lowell. It humorously claims Polk’s will and governance were aided by liver pills, specifically Ayer’s Pills, framed as a light historical vignette from fifty years ago.
Ayer’s Cathartic Pills were designed as a model purgative tailored to the bowels and liver. Their immediate popularity is noted by the World’s Fair 1893 medal award marking lasting consumer approval.
A southwest Georgia visit highlights rising farm self sufficiency with tenants and owners expanding crops and stock. Examples include a former renter now owning a 600 acre farm and a white farmer with hundreds of acres and 30 plows. Delays north due to rains affect corn land preparation while south sees steady work.
The article advises harrowing lightly across prepared land to kill grass and conserve moisture, with care near cotton to avoid harming young plants. It discusses tools for rough soil, such as scooters or narrow shovels, and recommends letting harrowed crops stand briefly before further cultivation. For forage crops, sow sorghum, cow peas, millets, and Kaffir corn, noting its drought resistance.
The Brooks County crop report praises the county as Georgia’s banner area for hogs and corn with rich farm profits. It notes farmers' bank balances, meat and crops shipped across South Georgia, and argues all counties should strive to replicate Brooks benefits to resist economic pressures.
The article states that women's diseases are peculiar and not discussable like general female ailments. It emphasizes menstruation's vital role in health, noting suppression or irregularity leads to languor, nervousness, irritability, pale cheeks, and serious complications unless regularity and vigor are restored.
Salt is not essential but can aid soil chemistry and moisture retention and may deter fungi and insects. Applications of 300 to 400 pounds per acre were thought to prevent rust in cotton and boost yield and quality. Lime is less a fertilizer and more a soil conditioner, correcting acidity, aiding disintegration of minerals, improving soil structure, and supporting lime‑dependent crops like ground peas.
An advertisement denounces mercury and potash as harmful for blood diseases and promotes Swift's S S S as a guaranteed, all vegetable cure. It warns against poisoning the system, touts a $1000 reward for proof to the contrary, and offers free books from the Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta, Georgia. The piece targets contagious blood poison, scrofula, eczema, rheumatism, cancer, and other blood diseases.
The article notes this common southern horse and mule disease has uncertain causes from damaged corn to blind teeth and new ground corn. It states there is no satisfactory treatment and warns against painful nostril burning and searing. Early stage care with limestone pasture and good feed may check or cure in rare cases.
A front page flyer by T A Slocum M D promises three free bottles of his new remedies for consumption and lung diseases to any reader who sends address details. The notice urges mentioning the paper and provides 98 Pine Street New York as the sender's address.
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