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Newspaper
Jackson Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
4
A Jackson Georgia newspaper item jokes about Mayor How ell and public figures while praising Hon G A Gearhart for an upcoming lecture. It contrasts vignettes on politics, journalism, and Southern women with brief health notes and a plug for One Minute Cough Cure.
The article reports the Bellaire Ohio Board of Education demanding the resignation of principal J F Defenbauch for forcing white girls to kiss colored girls after a quarrel. The Macon News questions social equality's reach and notes regional tensions in handling mixed schooling and social mixing.
Mercer University in Macon Georgia advertises its status as a premier higher learning institution and invites prospective students to request a college course catalogue from President P D Pollock. The notice emphasizes writing to Pollock for information.
Notice to the next Georgia General Assembly that an Act to amend the Act incorporating the City of Jackson in Butts County will be sought. The 1899 Public Schools Act is involved and dated September 26 1902. B P Barney mayor.
The Araus announces all future job work and advertising for nonaccount customers must be prepaid. They cite many outstanding small ads and legal notices, say they will not extend more credit, refuse to sue, and urge past balances be paid to maintain future favors. A H Shaver signs.
Chairman Griggs credits President Roosevelt with crystallizing the belief that trusts should be regulated. The piece notes Roosevelt's New England trip disrupted by a trolly collision injuring a secret service agent, and a similar incident on the Western swing. It also cites Illinois Populists attacking both major parties, labeling Republicans as open enemies of gold standard and banking policy and accusing Democrats of empty actions.
A Jackson market ad touts TEN-CENT STORE prices on dry goods and notions while discussing the Rome Tribune report of Jim Mosely arrested for running a blind tiger with a barrel of liquor. The piece urges Mississippian readers to trust Jackson merchants as best in Middle Georgia. It also recalls Dr. Carlisle's warning about the September aftermath and notes June crops in Butts county before a September downturn.
June hopes faded with September failure yet Butts County farmers show grit and expect recovery next year. Atlanta conducts three elections Wednesday including state, city primary, and alderman race. O R Larson of Bay Villa Cape Colony runs a South Africa style store nine miles from rail and twenty five miles from town selling Chamberlains remedies with fourteen local cures in twelve months noted. For sale by Harris Drug Co.
In a promotional note the age of cheap steel is highlighted as steel fences rise productivity. It explains modern Bessemer steel fencing, galvanizing, and machine weaving. The American Field and Hog Fence is shipped in rolls of twenty or thirty rods with No. 12 wire stays, offering large and small mesh for enclosures, hog pens, and livestock yards, with heights from 20 to 58 inches.
A farmer oriented appeal from Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. agent B. B. Youmans of Jackson Georgia asks farmers to join a cotton seed profits scheme while warning about mercury in catarrh remedies. The notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills, touting internal action and reliability from Toledo Ohio druggists.
Mr Francis Little of Benton Harbor Michigan over eighty years old has suffered indigestion and constipation since 1865. Since taking Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets from last August he reports improvement after using three boxes and now feels well. The Harris Drug Co. sells the tablets.
THE ARGUS prints bill heads note heads envelopes coins and more with full service. It boasts stock presses and skilled printers and promises the best job printing at right prices. Come in and judge for yourself. You can't make a man who isn't one simply by putting him in trousers.
Davis Kentucky druggist T Smith extols Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds claiming it cures and has saved throat and lung sufferers. Harris Drug Co backs it with satisfaction guarantee and trial bottles free. Also a humorous scene with a bowlegged clerk and a customer seeking gloves ends in her deciding to leave.
A 56 piece set of China valued at $10 will be given away at the Ten-Cent Store on Saturday October 18 at 4 pm. Each customer making a 10 cent purchase will receive a coupon for the distribution. J. W. Crum, Prep.
New books arriving include Temporal Power by Marie Corelli Fortunes of Oliver Horn by F Hopkinson Smith and Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon. The ad touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for eczema pimples and chapped skin and claims piles relief at Hart’s Drug Co.
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