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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
8
French statisticians report about 38 million babies born yearly, averaging seventy births per minute. If a year’s crop of cradles were placed end to end they would reach around the earth’s equator. Also mentions varieties TOMATO SEEDS and CARMICHAEL DRUG STORE.
Miss Fanny Will Grant of Dublin Georgia aged fifteen died after an appendicitis operation at a Macon sanitarium Thursday night. She had lived in Flovilla with her sister Mrs Ethel Grant Bryant for two years and was valedictorian of Flovilla High School. Survived by her parents and relatives. Interment at Cabaniss Monroe County.
The Year Book of the Churches for 1920 records American church membership up 2,861,182 since 1916 with 44,788,036 total across denominations. It notes 21,291,987 Sunday school pupils despite a loss, church expenditures at 326,287,951, and large increases in missions and benevolences led by Baptists and Methodists.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes with guaranteed rich fadeless color for wool silk linen cotton and blends. It promises a color card and includes a note of thanks for kindness shown during the illness and death of Mrs. Nancy Treadwell and appreciation for Dr. W H Steele.
The family of Mr W C Sharpe thanks friends for kindness shown during the illness and death of their wife and mother.
Mrs. Ellen Gallagher repelled a writ of replevin by fighting the crowd with fists, a poker, monkey wrench, scalding water, and turpentine. Deputies and several police officers were injured as they withdrew, while Gallagher’s condition is described as improving at Mount Sinai Hospital. A separate note mentions a Knights Templar meeting to consider an application for membership.
Davis Kinard of Lyons Street Lyons endorses Doan's Kidney Pills, claiming they relieved kidney trouble and restored function. He first praised them in 1915 and reaffirmed in 1918 saying they are as represented. Price 60 cents at dealers. FosterMilburn Co. Buffalo NY makers.
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