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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1921
Page
3
Mrs Ethel Richards of West Virginia describes a drastic recovery after using four bottles of Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription. She says prior medical care failed to help and her weight rose from 115 pounds to 173, enabling her to do housework and care for four children.
A Carroll Free Press quote encourages tough resilience. It urges readers to avoid self pity, help others, and show courage as life’s seesaw rises after downturns. Stay positive, keep moving forward, and never wallow in sobbing when faced with misfortune.
The note urges using bad weather to repaint cars and promotes Buttrill Brothers services. It questions how railroads express and telephone rate hikes will affect ordinary people already strained by rising costs.
J T Goodman longtime Jackson resident and Baptist church leader died after a brief illness at his Covington street home. He was 73 and a founder of Farmers Co Operative Fire Insurance Company serving as secretary and treasurer. Survived by daughter Mrs Lucy Sandberg and sister in law Mrs Wiley Goodman. Funeral held at First Baptist church conducted by Dr Robert VanDeventer with deacons as pallbearers. Burial in Jackson cemetery.
A rural agriculture guide urges farmers to plant food and forage crops to combat boll weevil damage. It highlights crop diversification as a strategy to reduce pest impact and boost yields across small farms.
Georgia farmers seek towns offering cash market prices for staple crops and large lots like cotton, corn, and syrup. A steady market near home boosts farmer morale and local trade by ensuring real-time sale prices and ready buyers for bulk produce.
Quotations from Henry W. Grady envision a self sufficient South with independent farmers, cotton sales in free markets, and cash transactions free of debt. The article recalls Grady’s influence in promoting a prosperous, autonomous regional economy and notes the long road still ahead.
Augusta Chronicle reflects on the late Grady’s vision of a liberated South free from cotton debt, speculators, and bondage to King Cotton. It imagines independent farmers, educated children, and a prosperous agrarian society as the country’s future, urging readers to emulate his declared ideals.
Bursting with sales urgency, the listing from Buttrill Brothers promotes Fordson tractors for this planting season. New prices are announced to attract buyers.
Mrs Queen Victoria Webb aged 68 died at her Pepperton home after several days with pneumonia. She was widowed since 1910, survived by daughter Annie Hale of Pepperton, brothers John and Gich Norsworthy, and step-sons Tom and Jack Webb of Butts county. Funeral at Sandy Creek noon Wednesday conducted by Rev Andrewa Goodrum. interment in Sandy Creek cemetery.
Spring arrivals at The Busy Corner feature fresh New Ginghams in stock inviting customers to buy now and prepare for the warmer months ahead.
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