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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1921
Page
4
In a Jackson Progress Argus column the writer critiques Atlanta politics and graft, urges stronger support for cotton goods, and calls for road bond issues in Butts County. The piece notes peonage exposure, education funding, and optimism for business as crops and reform drive progress.
A religious-legal lecture argues law comes from God and that citizens repair the altar of law through home, school, and pulpit. It stresses faithful parents teachers and preachers as builders of responsible citizenship and lawful governance.
Farmers can boost sales by roadside offering of produce to drivers. A farmer reported spending $100 on advertising fruit and gaining more trade from automobiles than he could supply, noting that autos travel toward places with farm bargains.
A newspaper-quoted plea argues that individual citizens must act to uphold law and justice. It claims officers alone cannot enforce the law and urges readers to support right, even at personal cost, warning against relying on preachers editors or police to fight crime.
Residents discuss why country weeklies cannot match city paper prices. Editors note that big ad rates come from wider circulation while weeklies service smaller regions. Readers urged to support local publishers to keep papers available.
A call for a general clean up campaign in Jackson urges everyone to cooperate. The author asks why not try it and implies broad community effort would be beneficial.
Marshall Field and Company Chicago urges advertisers to use news of merchandise in ads. They advise focusing on values quality features and prices and covering store sections while reducing illustrations and white space to tell a complete story and boost turnover even with slim margins.
A Vienna News column laments modern changes and imagines returning to earlier eras. It celebrates traditional virtues and social norms, referencing Floradora Sextette era, stage norms, yer youth, and historic ideals, while critiquing modern society.
M. L. Lee of the Moultrie Banking Company tells a Macon bankers meeting that sweet potatoes are highly profitable. Farmers sold graded potatoes at 75 cents per bushel and canning plants paid 50 to 60 cents for oversize produce. Damaged potatoes fed to hogs, waste eliminated, with contracts at 60 cents per bushel for next crop. Curing houses, built near rail lines, hold 10,000 bushels and cost about 3500 dollars. Loss from spoilage has averaged under 2 percent across three seasons.
The piece praises cooperative marketing in California and urges Georgia and other southern farmers to adopt the plan for selling cotton. It notes traditional methods persist, with cotton stored in bushel crates and simple handling, and points to crate costs, curing costs, and small overhead, arguing profits remain satisfactory.
Announcement states Georgia Soap Company makes Sunshine Soap Powder at 100 cases daily, about 1 000 packages, with most sales from repeat orders. Five cent packages are popular. ten ounce items retail for 5 cents. Company may release a 14 ounce package for five cents. Alabama Soap Co votes to consolidate with Georgia Soap Co and an amicable merger is under consideration.
The community adapts to changing conditions with a diversification drive. Sweet potatoes are identified as the main substitute for cotton, with large planned acreage to both feed and sell, signaling a broad shift in agricultural strategy.
The Interstate Commerce Commission certified to the secretary of the treasury the amounts due railroads under the government guaranty for the six months after federal control. Boston and Maine 6 5 million. Baltimore and Ohio 6 4 million. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 2 million.
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