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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1918
Page
4
Features of the past week in Georgia's senatorial race show candidates making speeches and claiming loyalty votes as the contest gains attention. Sunday announcement of Hon. adds to a growing list of six contenders, signaling a sharper campaign ahead.
A newspaper ad describes making a lemon skin softener by mixing lemon juice with three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint lotion. It claims to whiten, beautify, and remove blemishes, promising months of freshness when strained and used daily on face neck arms and hands.
H. H. Dean of Gainesville challenges all candidates to joint debates as six men campaign for junior senator. W. S. Howard of Atlanta opened his Senate bid with remarks on Tom Hardwick’s record. The field includes Howard Harris Cooper Dean Shaw and Hardwick. Primary three months off. The race promises a lively campaign.
Prof. C. L. Carter left Jackson for Blue Ridge North Carolina to take a training course preparing for overseas service with the YMCA. The Blue Ridge Training School is among the nation’s largest, with thousands in training, as the YMCA seeks hundreds of workers monthly to support soldiers in France. Carter is noted for education and ability, and his move is of broad interest.
The ad claims a remedy cures piles in six to fourteen days with a single first application. It promises rapid relief from bleeding bulging or protrusion and urges consulting a druggist for a patented treatment. The wording imitates medical advertising of early drug products.
Skin specialists report that foot pain corns bunions and ingrown nails arise from germs in skin pores. Eucapine antiseptic healing salve is said to destroy germs after bedtime baths and reduce inflammation by morning. Available in a family jar for 25 cents at Carmichael Drug and Book Co.
A Washington Herald piece portrays New York City’s scale via rapid city life metrics. It lists rates: visitors, immigrants, passengers arriving, arrests, births, funerals, weddings, fires, ships, buildings, accidents, divorces, suicides, and restaurant spending.
Unadilla Georgia resident B B Hayward says Foley Cathartic Tablets give quicker relief from biliousness bad breath bloating gas indigestion and constipation without gripping or nausea. Ow Pharmacy advertises the product.
Dr J Lee Byron of Jackson Georgia writes President Wilson proposing a program to train one thousand volunteers in four U S medical colleges for six months with military instruction. The aim is to send trained men to France with private pay and later credit toward medical education, potentially saving many lives.
War Department contracts authorize 3.5 million pairs of metallic fastened field shoes for overseas use at about 7.75 dollars per pair. Awards also cover 200 thousand pairs of field web shoes for U S and overseas service at 6.50 dollars each.
Winter worsens rheumatic pain as liniments fail to reach the disease. The ad touts S. S. S. as a vegetable blood remedy that purifies blood and fights germs, claiming to remove the disease cause. Free case advice offered by Medical Director at Swift Laboratory, Atlanta.
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