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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1921
Page
4
A historical notice discusses local taxes and subscription rates, plus a blend of social commentary on politics, agriculture, and wartime conditions. It mentions cotton prices, a proposed cooperative dairy, road to reform, and wage disputes affecting railroads, reflecting Southern life during a period of upheaval.
Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams warns of massive declines in farm factory and mine output and in industrial securities. total shrinkage likely at least 25 billion, with further falls this year. Discussions rage over deflation policy and wartime costs, while Georgia readers note bond votes, cotton dependence, and employment woes amid calls for diversified agriculture and biennial legislature reforms.
Farm labor earns 50 to 75 cents daily while railroad workers receive 5 to 15 dollars a day. The wage scale strains operating costs and sparks threats of strikes, with rail labor resisting concessions and urging a return to normalcy for the country.
Georgia Experiment Station compares cotton seed and cotton seed meal as fertilizer. Cotton seed meal offers higher nitrogen and phosphoric acid, better mixability and quicker availability. cotton seed contains valuable oil that lowers fertilizer value. Prices show cotton seed at about 17 a ton and cotton seed meal at 32 a ton. at 25 a ton seed yields an 8 loss per ton versus meal.
A vintage ad promotes Cascarets as a pleasant candy that cleanses the liver clears the head and keeps the stomach and bowels regular by morning. It claims no griping or inconvenience with 10 25 or 50 cent boxes and notes children enjoy the candy cathartic use.
A Covington Street mill formerly a railroad warehouse is now ready to grind corn. Local owners invite the public to try the new grinding operation and sample its products.
President Harding selected D. R. Crissinger of Marion Ohio to be comptroller of the Currency to succeed the resigned John Skelton Williams. Crissinger is a lawyer and banker and a lifelong friend of the president.
An old sales pitch advertises Rat-Soap with a dramatic claim of forty eight dead rats after one package. It warns rats breed fast and destroy property dollars. The ad lists prices 3Sc 65c and $1.6 and notes sales are sold and guaranteed by Carmichael Drug and Book Co.
The county yielded 12 000 bales in the prior year valued at 2 400 000 at 40 cents each. Now at 10 cents the same output is worth 600 000, a 1 800 000 drop. Seed prices fell more, illustrating why creditors struggle and debt payments stall under the squeeze system.
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