18 Apr 1901
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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1901
Page
1
An early 20th century promotional piece touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the perfect blood purifier. It claims to cure pimpled eruptions, tiredness, and scrofula by cleansing impure blood, urging readers to begin taking it today for health improvement.
Hood's Sarsaparilla proclaims itself America’s greatest spring medicine and urges readers to purchase Hood's for health benefits. The ad emphasizes reliability and widespread use as a household remedy.
The Delineator of New York announces a generous 1901 prize plan totaling 17 500 dollars for women in America and Canada. Prizes are distributed by town population across seven classes with city class prizes totaling 1 000 dollars. Additional commissions are paid to non winners based on town population.
Georgia farmers face a prosperous era driven by homegrown supplies and a cotton crop near 1.9 million bales. U.S. estimates show corn at 84 million bushels, wheat 5 million, oats 7 million, and hay 190 thousand tons. The piece urges prudent acreage, boosting forage, and avoiding cotton overproduction to sustain prices and profits.
The State Agricultural Department urges upgrading from antique tools to new plows rollers harrows and cultivators for better soil pulverizing clod breaking and weed control. Modern implements increase land productivity far beyond the old one acre day rule, enabling wider strip cultivation and faster work. Porto Rico is described as a farming country with 93 percent of farms operated by their own residents while America imports two million tons of sugar annually to satisfy demand.
Fragmentary text mentions cassava and a dish with unclear spellings. No clear event, names, places, or dates are readable to establish a factual news item.
Georgia prospects praise cassava as a staple for starch and stock feed with sweet cassava favored for Georgia soils. Professor Stockbridge notes its suitability, Brazil’s cassava uses, and rapid six month maturity. A Brunswick convention on April 9 aims to promote cassava cultivation and sugar cane expansion to boost Georgia’s agricultural development and starch factories.
Dr Talmage delivers a fervent Easter sermon celebrating Christ’s resurrection as a prophecy for all the dead to rise. He pictures the tombs breaking open, reunions of body and soul, and the glorious resurrected form, while addressing questions about how the new body will function and endure.
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