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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1921
Page
2
Police raided a home and found sixty sacks of moonshine powder, 100 pounds per sack. City chemists say the mixture contains sugar yeast and corn meal prepared separately. The powder allegedly distills corn whiskey without a traditional still and could fuel heavy drinking binges.
J Matt McMichael dies at 1 AM after weeks of illness at his Stark home. A 73 year old farmer, he shaped law and temperance efforts, led Farmers Union work, served in the General Assembly in 1909 10, and chaired the Butts County Sunday School Association. Funeral at Stark Methodist Church followed by burial in the church cemetery. Survived by wife Maddox and ten children, plus two sisters.
A compact collection of famous maxims attributed to Bergson Catherine of Prussia Holmes Barere Raleigh Hare and Shakespeare on life truth liberty passion and humility. The lines contrast lived experience genuine speech and the dangers of hypocrisy.
The author argues the South’s financial distress stems from deflated cotton prices. With cotton at forty cents a pound the region would recover, while prices near five to twelve cents ruin farmers. The piece urges all Southern classes to unite to raise cotton value, linking prosperity to production and sale.
A speaker extols mothers as stabilizing the body politic and urges larger cotton profits. He warns against Wall Street deflation, praises Southern finance to protect the money crop, and calls for kindness and measured faith. Quoted maxims from Hopkins Cicero and La Bruyere close the exhortation.
An old advertisement extols Pepto Mangan as a blood tonic to purify blood and improve complexion. It touts liquid and tablet forms with genuine labeling and urges readers to buy ahead of a political event referencing the GOP.
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