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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1921
Page
8
Take aspirin only as directed on Bayer Tablets of Aspirin packages. Physicians years of guidance and millions of safe uses underpin the dosage. With Bayer Cross on tablets you may treat colds headache neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain. Handy twelve tablet tins are cheap. larger packs also sold. Aspirin is Bayer trademark of acetylic acid.
The community mourns the death of Mrs. Nettie Gray 77 at Locust Grove appearing after a brief illness from paralysis. Born Nettie Jinks in Butts County she lived in Locust Grove where son Prof Claude Gray heads Locust Grove Institute. Funeral at Locust Grove conducted by Dr B D Ragsdale with interment at Old Bethel cemetery. Survived by Daisy Gray Meridian Miss Nettie Gray and Claude Gray Locust Grove and Ernest Gray brother O P Jinks Jackson.
In Richmond Virginia a woman describes severe run down blood and a sallow complexion caused by indigestion and constipation. After taking four bottles of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets she reports better health and improved well being.
Raleigh NC report shows E A Turpee, seven miles away, an amateur wireless operator, sending an S O S when phone lines were down. A town drug store clerk, part of the radio fraternity, recalled and filled the order promptly, delivering medicine to the urgent farmer.
An advertisement claims Dodson's Liver Tone can regulate the liver stomach and bowels better than calomel without side effects. It touts 15 million bottles sold and a guarantee. Nearby notes state fuel oil and gasoline prices in Texas and Oklahoma, with oil as low as 50 cents by small refiners and gasoline at 15 to 15 1/2 cents per gallon.
In the Atlanta Constitution W J Walker of Screven county argues the Butts county plan to buy cotton from big Wall Street farmers could stabilize prices. He asserts there is no over production but faulty distribution and finance, urging storage and financing schemes to secure a fair price, with Sylvania, Georgia, as the dateline.
Wellness ad urging readers to cleanse the system and purify blood with S. S. S. It claims 90 percent of ailments arise from blood impurities and promises appetite restoration and increased vitality. Invites readers to request free medical literature from Chief Medical Adviser in Atlanta.
Henry Ford declares that work is inevitable for every man and urges a cheerful temper. He says one may choose effort level but not the basic need to work, and that even dull tasks can be emboldened with a positive mindset.
A 1921 advertisement claims catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and cannot be cured by local applications. It promises a constitutional remedy through Hall's Catarrh Medicine, offering one hundred dollars for any uncured case, with drugs priced at 75 cents and free circulars. Also includes a sheriff's sale notice for a Jackson Georgia house on March 1 1921 to satisfy 1920 tax debt.
D W Grant, administrator with the will annexed for E H Grant, calls Edna Grant Johnson heirs living out of Georgia to appear at the March term of the Court of Ordinary on March 7 1921 for probate in solemn form. February 7 1921. J H Ham Ordinary and Ex Officio Clerk Thereof.
Notice to creditors of the estate of Owen J. Martin and to those indebted to the estate to render demands or make payment. Also a notice of permanent administration with will annexed on the estate of E H Grant, citing creditors and next of kin to appear and show cause why administration should not be granted, dated February 1921.
By virtue of an order from the Court of Ordinary the guardian will sell before the courthouse door in Jackson.
Georgia on the first Tuesday in March 1921 between legal hours of sale describes ten acres in the 552nd district G M Butts county bounded by C A Pittman W M White T W Higgins and Mrs J C Maddox. Terms cash. Guardian Anders on Hansford Minn ie Thomas.
Petition to the Georgia Superior Court of Butts County seeks a charter for Butts County Products Company to last twenty years with option to renew. It outlines goals to buy, sell and manufacture farm products, store and preserve goods, and to engage in real and personal property dealings. Principal office in Jackson with stock to start at ten thousand dollars and increaseable to fifty thousand. board of directors and officers to be elected, by laws formed, common seal used, and capital paid in part in money or property. This document is dated February 1, 1921, with clerk S. J. Foster certifying it as a true copy.
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