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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
3
Mr J L Lyons issues a public card thanking voters for support in Tuesday's nomination. He expresses humble gratitude and wishes success for county interests and Mr Watkins, pledging cordial, supportive regard for future measures.
A controversial groundhog story draws scrutiny as locals question its authenticity. Officials and residents debate the animal's provenance and the legitimacy of its status amid conflicting reports and public curiosity.
A testimonial advertises Dr. Pierce's Anuric tablets as a cure for kidney pain and swelling caused by uric acid buildup. A Buffalo, New York address offers a ten cent trial, while a Georgia reader credits it with removing uric acid after three bottles and relief from back and kidney pains.
Rev W B Dillard and Miss Mary Parham will speak at the Jackson Methodist church Tuesday night April 27 at 8 00 pm on Sunday school work. A Sunday School Institute for the Griffin District follows Wednesday April 28 at Jenkinsburg urging full representation from Butts and nearby counties.
Clean-up week aims to be memorable as citizens join in a great community effort. The notice highlights the Oxford One Eyelet Tie priced at 12.50 values for 10.00.
The Georgia State Automobile Association will tour the peach belt in early June, inviting newspaper reps as guests. William Candler and Frank T. Reynolds head arrangements with routes through McDonough Jackson Monticello Gray Macon Fort Valley Marshallville Ocala Thorpe Ellaville Buena Vista Columbus Hamilton Warm Springs, starting June 9 from Atlanta.
Miss Joe Warner spent Sunday with friends in Griffin. Mrs E D Hoard visited Macon. J R Lansberry greeted friends after Sunday. Sunday school hour moved to 10. Mrs Joe Newsome and children of Sandersville visit Miss Joe Warner. Ben Cleveland returned from Fitzgerald. Baptist church pastor Dr Robert VanDeventer to preach Sunday afternoon. W O Brown of Goodrich Rubber Tire Co visited family. Mrs A H Ogletree sick in Atlanta hospital.
A fragment references aspirin for headache and mentions Bayer branding amid unspecified questions about genuineness. No dates or locations are provided. The readable text hints at concerns over authenticity of a Bayer labeled aspirin product.
Bayer asserts its aspirin is genuine when sold as Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer package with proper directions for headache cold pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. The aspirin trademark is Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid and tablets in handy tin boxes of 12 cost a few cents.
L C Beck of Gardner Hill five miles from Weedville buried six children in ten days all dying of influenza. The oldest was seventeen and the youngest one year old. The house was quarantined with care by Beck and his mother while neighbors left milk and meals. Dr Leo Hayes was the only person allowed to enter the home.
The Butts county Executive Committee elected ten delegates for the State Convention to be held in Atlanta on May 18. Delegates from Co. A include Pee T. Thomason. Alternates listed are Thoot Ss, J. Yie Fears, Incher, W Homer Barnes, A B Smith.
Congress completed enactment of the $462 500 000 post office appropriation, the largest ever for the mail service, after adopting the conference report. The bill includes 1 250 000 to create transcontinental air mail routes from New York to San Francisco via Chicago and Omaha starting July 1. A fashion note mentions a "patch em and wear em" club.
An official from a major eastern life insurance company estimates the influenza and pneumonia epidemic has cost U S life insurers about 5 million dollars. This amount represents roughly one quarter of the insurance paid during the 1918 19 epidemic.
John Hood Price, an African American man, was hanged in Augustine Texas twenty four hours after arrest and conviction for murdering farmer John Kennedy. Indicted by a special grand jury, tried by a night session, he was executed before about two thousand bystanders in the public square.
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