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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1918
Page
7
Alexius Commandery No. 22 Knights Templar will hold a called meeting Friday at 6 o clock to confer degrees on two Monticello candidates. The session was postponed from the prior meeting due to rain delaying the candidates. A full attendance is requested.
Mrs. J Parks Harvey, a prominent Monticello resident active in church and civic work, drowned while swimming with friends in the Ocmulgee River ten miles west of Monticello. Six companions stepped into a deep hole, eight others rescued. search continued as authorities and locals joined autos to aid. She leaves husband, parents, and several siblings.
A Cincinnati authority touts freezone as a cheap remedy to remove corns and calluses. A few drops on a tender corn supposedly provide instant relief and allow the corn to be lifted out with root and all. The one ounce bottle costs little and is said to spare surrounding skin.
The article notes that at 10 000 feet temperatures remain low regardless of tropical or polar locations and that upper altitude reveals little seasonal variation. It describes intense cold for airmen and the need for heavy cold-weather gear as altitude increases toward 20 000 feet.
Old and young feel stronger in summer by taking Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It purifies blood and builds up the system with a strengthening effect. Georgia’s peach crop is reported as the largest this year due to favorable seasons.
J Threatt Moore announces candidacy for representative from the county in the September Democratic primary. He asks for support and votes from fellow citizens and pledges to represent all county interests if elected, dated March 11, 1918.
R. W. Mays states candidacy for re-election as Representative from Butts County under Democratic primary rules upcoming on September 11, 1918.
Georgia voters in the Sixth Congressional District are urged to consider J W Wise for the Sixty Sixth Congress. He notes wartime duties in Washington, pledges to support swift end to the war and to push legislation for government strength and lasting peace.
After surveying the Sixth Congressional District a state legislator declares his candidacy for Congress subject to the Democratic Primary. He cites his record including parole reform rural high school funding and blocking a rail charter, vows to support allied war aims and postwar development in Georgia ports waterways Camp Wheeler and Camp Wheeler located in the state, immigration and naturalization reforms and expansion of rural free delivery and farm loan programs. He seeks votes and influence to serve the people in the district and state.
A Democratic primary candidate Wm E Searcy Jr asks voters in the Flint Circuit for support in the upcoming September 11 election. The message outlines his bid for a full term as Superior Court judge and closes with a subscription note.
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