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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1920
Page
4
Cards of thanks will be charged fifty cents minimum for up to 50 words. For more than 50 words, ads cost one cent per word. Cash must accompany copy in all cases. Foreign Advertising Representative The American Press Association.
The piece argues for deflation as the sane path to stability, praising the Federal Reserve Board for steadying prices and warning against inflationary urges. It links farm holdbacks to price manipulation, notes North Dakota wheat stagnation, and urges merchants to cut losses to move stock.
James B. Nevin argues in The Atlanta Georgian that consumers should weigh whether to act now in a sharply lower market for staple goods or wait for further declines, urging calm and analytical judgment.
Prices for newsprint rise since 1916 squeezing profits and forcing many long running papers to suspend or fold. A Boston News Bureau summary notes narrow margins eroded by higher contract prices leaving publications retailing near blank paper costs and many firms unable to survive. The downturn reflects a sharp drop in registrations of second class publications.
An advertisement urges readers with pale tired looks to try Pepto Mangan a blood tonic. It claims to restore energy by increasing red blood cells and featured forms include liquid and tablet. The ad promotes requesting the genuine Gude's Pepto Mangan at drug stores.
An Augusta Chronicle piece warns of tuberculous infection in children lying dormant for decades, then waking due to stress or illness. It notes higher susceptibility among colored women, calls for race-spanning efforts, and mentions health bonds and seals funding a sanatorium plan for white patients with Negro care facilities.
Flovilla Georgia December 16 Flovilla High School to stage The End of the Santa Claus Trail a Christmas Cantata at 8 p m Friday and Saturday in the school auditorium Mrs Lucy D Douglas will direct music Miss Willie Wrenn as choral director and Prof Van Buren to oversee the overall presentation More than thirty singing parts and many solos mark the performance which follows a busy fall program and tickets sold out quickly prompting an added performance
The two night program in Flovilla drew little attendance as residents from three nearby counties did not attend, indicating weak outreach and limited local interest.
Follow the package directions for Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as prescribed by physicians over 21 years. Do not substitute. Bayer Cross confirms safety for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and pain. Twelve tablets come in a handy tin. larger packages sold by druggists. Bayer is the trademark of the Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
An advertisement claims Ziron is a scientific iron tonic that rebuilds strength for the run-down. It notes improved appetite, weight gain of ten pounds in four months, and general recovery with a money back guarantee. It targets both young and old and urges purchase from druggists.
George Gaston and Gil Trimble were shot and Sis Greer was slashed with a knife in a row near Jackson Sunday afternoon. All these are colored. Mitchell Greer is affected by the shooting, though it is not known who cut the woman. No arrests have been made.
Prior to December 1, Butts county had ginned 10,618 bales of cotton, per the census report. This compares with 14,545 bales the year before, a drop of 3,927 bales or 37 percent, yielding a crop at 63 percent of normal and a brighter outlook than feared.
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