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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
2
Local weekly paper Jackson Prog ass Argus announces publication Friday with editor J Doyle Jones. Subscription rates listed include one year $1.50 three months 40 cents six months 75 cents and single copies 5 cents. Also notes cards of thanks pricing and policy for cash.
The piece argues peach farming will boost Butts county's economy, create an ice factory and other industries, and protect against boll weevil losses. It urges state action to safeguard institutions, warns against humbug schemes, and praises Confederate veterans' hospitality in Dawson. It also notes a proposed monument to Joseph E Brown at the University of Georgia funded by his former gift.
The Progress-Argus endorses large scale peach growing in Butts County, arguing it will beat boll weevil, boost growers’ profits during cash scarce times, spawn new businesses, and increase overall county activity.
The Georgia General Assembly is urged to abandon a new tax scheme and maintain the current system. The piece laments high wartime debt of 25 billion and income taxes up to 80 percent, calling for fiscal economy, fewer offices, and restraint in spending.
The American Medical Association seeks legislation to ban patent medicines, arguing it aids the common people while many preparations are legitimate household staples. Proponents fear higher costs and physician prescriptions. critics say proven remedies would be harmed and oppose interference with trusted products.
The argument against women’s suffrage on states rights grounds is weak after wartime service by women. The piece notes women’s roles in nursing, Red Cross work, and home front defense, argues amendments and prohibition show federal power, and asserts women’s moral and educational equality with men.
The piece argues that federal amendment granting equal suffrage to women will apply after ratification by three-fourths of the states, though women remain subject to state election laws. It dismisses complaints about mixed polling places and notes that voting by women will improve national conditions, asserting inevitability like prohibition.
An editorial snippet argues a week devoted to paying national debt would replace drives and relieve burdens, imagining how a debt free nation would render life sweeter and the country more livable.
The Georgia press notes a decline in convict numbers and questions the future of road work. Prohibition is criticized for driving crime and counting on court and chain gang labor, with cited opinions from the Jackson Progress-Argus and Marietta Journal.
The newly formed Woman's Club advocates a city clean-up campaign as a start to broader civic work. It hopes for a civic pride revival in Jackson and invites women to extend influence into government and gain the vote.
Paul Nolen & Co promotes a 15 cent large package of Camels and Chesterfields cigarettes with bold display copy signaling bargain tobacco.
The Marietta Journal notes joys from two cent postage and a liquor-free country set the stage for widespread Fourth of July festivities across the nation. Citizens anticipate parades, gatherings, and shared patriotism in communities large and small.
There is a lengthy advertisement claiming Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh as a constitutional remedy taken internally. It touts testimonials and a one hundred dollar reward for failure, lists F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as manufacturers, and notes druggists carry the product.
Commerce and Finance notes that the United States, with 6 percent of world population and 7 percent of land, supplies major portions of gold silver iron steel wheat lead zinc coal copper cotton oil and corn. It argues America is the richest country and can meet its obligations.
A cartoon caption depicts an Irishman asking about a kangaroo at the zoo. The guard replies it is a native of Australia, prompting Pat to exclaim with surprise that his sister married one of them.
Samuel L Kramer of Sellersville Pennsylvania reports kidney trouble and backache ending after using Foley Kidney Pills. The ad claims kidneys overwork cause pain and rheumatic symptoms and asserts Foley Kidney Pills heal and soothe, also aiding bladder trouble.
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