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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
9
An old advertisement touts Mother's Friend as a preparatory aid for pregnancy. It claims the product relaxes abdominal and breast tissues, reduces strain and pain during childbirth, and creates rest and comfort before delivery. The text promotes reading a motherhood book and obtaining a bottle from a druggist.
A Paris Hotel Petrograd YWCA hostess house offers a “bomb parlor” beneath its rooms with no outside walls where residents pass raids with reading games and visits. Red Cross nurses, soldiers, sailors, and women of the Signal Corps mingle with other guests as the city endures air raids. The Petrograd provides breakfast butter and 24 hour bathing, one of France’s famed wartime hostess houses along with Bourges and Tours.
A corps of translators in fifteen languages aids foreign-born wives whose husbands serve. They educate on rentals laws labor leaves and child welfare and teach use of American foods for foreign tastes. Work coordinated with Food Conservation Commission and Home Demonstration Service. Leaflets circulate via foreign newspapers.
A vintage advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as strengthening the elderly and weak for summer heat. It claims the tonic purifies and enriches blood and builds up the whole system with a noticeable strengthening and invigorating effect. It is priced at 60 cents.
The article argues against work or fight laws harming shows and carnivals, stressing there is no time to let gamblers and tricksters afflict the state and urging protection of entertainment events.
The McDowell Grocery Company, active here since spring, relocates to Madison Georgia to access a larger market. Manager M A McDowell leaves Jackson after earning local friends and a reputation for public spirited, active community involvement.
Jackson locals report kidney and back trouble relief with Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. E R Harper of East 2nd St describes years of pain and headaches improved after using Doan's, urging others to try the remedy. Manufactured by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY advt.
The American Y W C A runs twelve foyers in France to help girls and women in munition factories. Two are in St Etienne and three in Lyon, each with cafeterias. Workers are French with diverse male staff. many women are refugees. foyers serve as social centers with classes, sewing, letters, and entertainment. English classes are most popular and all foyers are sanctioned by the French Ministry of War.
Mr G W Allen announces a new modern syrup mill in operation at his home and will grind for the public. Two cars of furniture unloaded this week. Progress Argus notes a growing sorghum plantings this year and Mr Allen provides a bottle of fine syrup as a token.
Mr N N Maddox lost his dwelling, wheat, and smoke house in a blaze on Wednesday morning. The fire likely started from a stove flue and damaged much property though some household effects were saved. Insurance status was not learned.
An advertisement notes men suffer from overwork and weak kidneys causing fatigue. It promotes Foley Kidney Pills as a rapid tonic with testimonial from Wm. H. Clark of Springfield Ohio and mentions Carmichael Drug and Book Company.
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