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Newspaper

Jackson Argus

Location

Jackson, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Oct 18, 1913

Page

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Prince of Promises Sermon At Jackson Methodist Church

Elam F Dempsey preaches on Romans 8 28 at Jackson Methodist Aug 24 1913 explaining the conditional promise that all things work for good for those who love God. He outlines present experience radical spiritual change conscious love visible through prayer Bible reading and service and notes earth hell and sky conspire to aid the blessed life.

Elam F. Dempsey Jackson Methodist Church Elam Franklin Dempsey Heavenly Father God Commonder Earth Hell Sky

Chapel Talk on Happiness Impresses Teachers

Rev. M. S. Williams led chapel on happiness with broad interest. Teachers form a Round Table for literary study meeting biweekly, chaired by Mrs. Martin. A Tuesday night gathering with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Martin discussed The Gold Bug and poems by Edgar Allan Poe.

No Tights Ban Alters Atlanta Vaudeville Shows

Atlanta residents note a city ordinance restricting women in tights at picture houses while allowing skirted and bloomer ensembles in vaudeville features. The measure targets cinema audiences but exempts regular theaters from the ban.

Atlanta

The Prince of Promises Explained for Daily Life

The speaker presents how all things work for good for believers, with a guiding loving intelligence behind nature society and the supernatural. He urges applying this promise in financial reverses mood, slander, long weakness, affliction, and even death, urging readers to claim the exceeding great and precious promise.

Christ Iis

Local News Snippets Highlight Yom Kippur Closures

J Aronson and J Groodzinski clothing stores closed Saturday for Yom Kippur. Dempsey Hardware hosts malleable range demonstration with coffee and rolls. Claud Spencer improves after operation. Uncle Sam bakery owner Sclessenger visits Argus. Argus subscribers paid two weeks in advance get Southern Ruralist for a year. City light lines extended with new street lamps on McDonough West Walker Second Covington. Sam Lee explores Macan sights and visits Loo Sing in Dublin. Debt settlements urged at court house by W J Woop. Misses Land and Ham visit Atlanta Saturday.

Mr. J. Aronson Mr. J. Groodzinski Merck McDonough Street West Avenue Walker Street Second and Covington Streets

Mule Buyer at Leach & Co Stables Saturday

Leach & Co announces a mule buyer will be at their stables tomorrow as Jackson hosts crowds over a busy period with visitors staying all day Friday. A slit skirt incident in Jackson last Monday drew brief attention before the wearer vanished quickly from a drug store crowd. Rev Fletcher Walton of Griffin district preached at the Methodist church last Sunday with morning and evening services. The University Club of Atlanta names Prof Joel Mallet as new member. he is Emory class of 1913 alumnus. Live Stock Association meeting is set for the first Tuesday in November at the court.

Fletcher Walton Griffin Methodist Church The University Club of Atlanta Joel B. Mallet Georgia Colleges Prof. Mallet Emory Live Stock Association

Way to Get the Butcher's Goat Is to Eat Your Own Goat

Atlanta economists study the high cost of living and argue that private goat farms could lower meat prices. They say goat meat is cheaper than other meats and tender when young, but full grown billy goat meat is strongly flavored.

Atlanta

Alligator Rescued From Atlanta Sewer to Grant Park Zoo

A young alligator that lived in a Hunter Street sewer and frightened local children has been moved to a larger basin at the Grant Park zoo. An inspector surprised it near the sewer hole, severing its retreat. How it reached the sewer remains a mystery.

Atlanta Hunter Street Grant Park Zoo

The Best That Can Be Bought

A brief note highlights Fone Ocmulgee as a notable item or vendor, signaling appeal or value in a local trade context.

Fone Ocmulgee

Movement for better and more cattle at ten A.M.

At 10 A.M. the movement encourages participation toward better and more cattle. Community organizers urge farmers to join, outlining goals for herd improvement and cooperative actions to boost livestock quality and market outcomes.

Benefit performance for Associated Charities draws full house

A Tuesday night benefit for Associated Charities packed the house and yielded a sizable cash total through ticket sales and candy proceeds for charitable purposes.

Associated Charities

Cotton prices slide after sharp bale decline

Cotten has fallen steadily since dropping as much as 4 to 7 dollars per bale. The price has been 13 cents and under since Wednesday of last week.

Walter P Andrews Heads Commission for Panama Exposition Visit

President Wilson appoints Walter P Andrews of Atlanta to head a commission to visit Mediterranean countries in December. He will carry Wilsons invitation to Southern Europe and North Africa as Americas representative. His wife accompanies him and a newspaper man plus a second commissioner will join the mission aboard a US warship.

Atlanta Wilson Walter P. Andrews Andrews Anderws Europe Africa Uncle Sam

A Good Ordinance Ends Decatur Street Advertising

An Atlanta ordinance banning street spielers outside shops to attract customers has ended a colorful Decatur street scene. Merchants from Greek and Semitic communities relied on verbal pitches to draw patrons, but the new rule aims to curb crowded front doors and traffic disruption.

Atlanta Decatur Street Peachtree Whitehall New York Chicago Frisco

Simple English and the dialect story noted by philologist

A philologist hails simple English in the New York Sun, saying its force and directness are unmatched by any other medium. He argues dialect writing falters when authors imitate and fail to use their native language.

New York Sun

Fortunate One Marries a Drawn-Over Partner

The New York World notes a fortunate marriage as the bride weds the man she drew over for this match, highlighting a curious social twist and the surprise of a forthcoming wedding.

New York World

All Girls Have Same Advantage in Georgia Power

An Atlanta Georgia table of astonishing statistics from the Georgia Railway Power Co shows how electricity can perform many tasks for one cent. It lists practical uses such as boiling water, running an electric griddle, frying pan, electric fan, Welsh rarebit, sewing machine motor, coffee percolator, and keeping a flatiron hot, all at minimal cost.

Atlanta Georgia Peachtree Street Georgia Railway & Power &Co Tallulah Falls Milady

Hookworm Disease Tied to Nutrition and Sanitation

The hookworm disease is described as caused by a small intestinal parasite that feeds on the body. The name references the parasite s hook like structure and its link to poor nutrition and unsanitary living conditions.

They Died Anyway in Medical Journal Record

A Chicago News excerpt notes a leading American physician chronicling 1000 cases. Post mortems showed diagnosis correct in at most half. the author questions what impact full accuracy would have had on outcomes.

America Chicago News

Fragmented Thought on Logic and Emotion

An opinion fragment notes that life contains no logic in a baby's cry a woman's smile or a beautiful gleam. The quote contrasts emotion with reason as a reflective aside about perception and meaning.

Also Mentioned on This Page

Prince OF Promises Doane Edwin Jim Crawford W. R. Hammond Ocmulgee Phone the Nut Club Surfrageite N Gat Sut Logal News OF the Dempsey Hardware Co Claud Spencer Mr. Sclessenger Argus Southern Ruralist Sam Lee Macan Loo Sing Dublin Court House W. J. Woop Mary Land Kate Ham Jackson Jone F. R. Morgan Western Newspaper Union R.morgan
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