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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1916
Page
2
A report from Catron Kentucky features Mrs Bettie Bullock describing four years of severe womanly troubles and illness. After trying doctors and rest, her husband bought Cardus a tonic which she says restored her strength. The letter urges others with similar trouble to try Cardui and contact Chattanooga Medicine Co for advice and literature.
A backhand device to record tennis scores obtains a patent. New brushes with a polish reservoir feed polish via a valve. An English electric fan offers intermittent air with axis-driven blades. A speech device measures tongue pressure for phonetic study. A Munich physician links heat prostration to acid reduction in the body. A German machine grinds steel balls for bearings and holds them until sized. Australian dentists patent metal cast false teeth with uniform density.
For sale 215 acres known as the Tyson place two miles from Forsyth to be sold to the highest bidder on the firstTuesday in November or by private sale. Mr Tyson will show the property to interested parties Georgia Trading Co Forsyth Ga. The State Fair in Macon is a great educational fair inviting everyone to attend this big exposition of the state's resources and possibilities.
Ladies invited to inspect a display of Georgette crepe waists at the Busy Corner. The notice promises the greatest line ever shown in town and urges patrons to see them soon.
A portion of the old Preston land near Iron Springs will be sold to the highest bidder at a public sale next Tuesday. For details contact L. M. Maddox in Dublin, Georgia.
The text argues the boll weevil resists freezing and poisoning and can only be killed by starvation, presenting a stark, single approach to eradicating the pest.
A proclamation announces a proposed constitutional amendment to Georgia voters at the general election on Tuesday November 7 1916. The change would amend Article 11 Section 1 Paragraph 2 to create Bacon County as a new county within the state. Governor Nat E Harris endorses the measure.
The 1916 General Assembly proposed an amendment to Article 11 that would create Bacon County as a statutory county with local offices and courts, authorize a bonded debt up to 100000 for improvements, and extend county laws as applicable. The Governor will submit the measure to voters at the next general election with instructions for and against ballots.
Grove's Whenever You Need a General Tonic promises a tasteless tonic with quinine and iron. The ad highlights liver effects malaria fighting blood enrichment and overall system strengthening. Price listed as 50 cents.
Advertises buying selling and trading cotton seed and cotton seed meal. Indicates exchange options swap or purchase and directs readers to a shop behind the First National Bank.
Mrs. R. H. Maddox as admix applies to the Ordinary for leave to sell land belonging to the estate of Mrs. T. L. Chambers for distribution among heirs. The hearing is at the next Court of Ordinary term on the first Monday in November 1916.
By order of the Court of Ordinary the executor will sell on the first Tuesday in November 1916 to the highest bidder a seventy acre tract in the 618 district of Butts County. Bounded by C F Carter Dr H W Copeland W H Hammond and W Washington the land fronts public roads from Jackson to High Falls. Terms cash. Date Oct 2 1916. W H Thaxton Executor J B Thaxton.
An advertisement urges quicker action on bronchial coughs claiming Fo ley's Honey and Tar eases throat tickling reduces inflammation and irritation restores sore membranes and clears congested air passages for lasting relief from the Ow Pharmacy.
Georgia Butts County will sell on the first Tuesday in November at the courthouse by auction for cash. The description includes a 10 acre land tract in district 610 with boundaries to Harkness and Carmichael lands, plus machinery from R B Harkness including a boiler engine saws elevator press and shafting. Property is levied to satisfy a Superior Court execution in favor of W H Foster against B G Carmichael. Date October 10, 1916. L M Crawford Sheriff.
A legal notice describes Lot No. 3 in the old brick yard property in Jackson Georgia. The parcel fronts Spencer street and runs 107.51 feet, bounded by Lot 4 to the north Lot 2 to the south and Mallet lands to the east. The property, held by Rufus Woodward, is to satisfy a Superior Court execution in favor of J R Conner, as stated by plaintiff.
A historical note describes the Virginia creeper spreading from Cuba to Newfoundland and along the Mississippi, with Europe, especially Venice, admiring its trellis growth. It warns to distinguish it from poison ivy by five leaflets versus three, and notes the plant clings with disk-like tendrils that can support two pounds per disk.
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