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Newspaper
Vidalia Advance
Location
Vidalia, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1920
Page
6
Hastings Co offers over a million seed packets of easy grow flowers to brighten homes in the South. The 1921 catalog features 116 pages with color images and garden tips and explains how to receive seeds free with no obligation to buy. Requests for the catalog should be sent to Hastings Seeds Atlanta GA.
This old advertisement promotes GROVE'S TASTELESS Chill TONIC as a blood purifier and strength builder. It claims iron and quinine purify and enrich the blood, improve energy, appetite, and color, and notes the formula has remained unchanged for decades with a 60c price per bottle.
H. G. Hastings of the Southeastern Fair urges a right about-face in 1921. He argues that South farmers overproduced cotton while buying costly food and grain. By growing food and forage on home acres, costs could drop one third to one half. He emphasizes home gardens and early planting to ensure cheap, steady supplies.
A Kansas City Star humor piece satirizes a proposed program to fingerprint infants and preserve records for life. It mockingly suggests absurd targets like collars shirts book leaves and even a wooden window sill with wry steps for registering prints.
The subject, once a standout athlete, now teaches at a college and remains popular with students. A humorous incident occurs when a student borrows a textbook, returns it, and a powder puff falls during lecture. The moment leaves the room in an anxious hush before he falters with a clumsy remark.
Mrs J R Forbes, recently back in England, recounts discovering a tribe of underground women in the Tripoli mountains. They emerge only once in their lives to marry, then live with their husbands in caves, growing pale, with bright dark eyes, dyeing hair with henna, and becoming nearly blind in daylight while keeping livestock underground.
A poem recalling an old time friend and childhood memories. The speaker finds joy in a familiar smile that rekindles youth, innocence, and the pleasant eras of tin toys and nursery rhymes as time passes.
A new training school for YWCA secretaries began on November 1 in India, the country’s first. Eight young Indian women make up the inaugural class, mirroring the eight in the United States 1904 class, studying administration of activities, club work with girls, and student organization. India now has 47 YWCA workers and 161 centers of work.
Quick cough relief from Hayes Healing Honey plus Grove Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat. Salve intended for children with colds or croup, rubbed on chest and throat. Packaged together in a carton sold for 35 cents through druggists.
An old tonic and laxative advertisement touts LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE as better than ordinary quinine and not causing nervousness in the head. It urges recalling the full name and to seek the signature of E. W. GROVE.
A Sunday school tale ends with a boy recalling the napkin parable. He explains the man wrapped money as a tip for the waiter, prompting a teacher’s question and the boy’s earnest reply.
Fragmentary text hints at personal relationships and time based decisions. Mentions Patience Why, Harry carrying a picture in a watch, and Patrice assessing a new idea possibly involving a van in time. Details are unclear but focus on personal dynamics and future plans.
The document lists students by grade earning December honor roll honors at Vidalia Collegiate Institute. Names span from 1st to 11th grade, including James Cromartie Lucile Frederick Joyce Sikes Bernard Pournelle Estelle Stith Claude Phillips Robert Safford Leroy Meadows Evelyn Meadows Elizabeth Poindexter Mary Thomas Noda Phillips Emory Herring Johnny Gay Norma Lou Oliver Ovid Brogden Rosa Brinson Victoria Cromartie Lois Coleman Adelle Hackel Margaret Jones Vivian Claxton Ruby Brantley Geraldine Burkhalter Katherine Joiner Maurine Darby Chess Abernathy Vree land Carr Bennett DeLoach Eloise Darby Hubert Darby Endelle Faulk George Huckabay Franklin Morris George Rountree Janet MacDonald Helen Wilson Mary Ruth Palmer Marguerite Purcell Lanelle Allen Inez Durden Mary Elijah Caroline Macon Allie Mae McBride Grace Brown Herman Abernathy Jack Davis J B Jones Mary Rayford Glenys Thompson Frank Watson B C Wynn Jack Rountree Kathryn Yeomans Madie Dee Pattillo Incus Joiner Jack Rattray Bill MacDonald Frances Smith Will Thomas Darley Elizabeth Dukes James Darley.
Sam Wheeler, a young farmer, was badly hurt when his wagon was struck at a blind Railroad avenue crossing by a Sea board freight engine switching near Darby Lumber Company. He was taken to Vidalia Hospital with severe shock, back muscle injury, and facial bruising.
The Magnolia Springs Baptist Sunday school in Normantown held a December 27 program directed by Mrs. E. W. Smith. Despite bad weather a large crowd attended as decorations and presents highlighted a talk by Rev. C. E. McDaniel on the birth of Christ.
Vidalia resident Miss Lizzie Coleman reports kidney weakness and back pain improved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. She credits the relief to half a box with no recurrence, urging others to use the same remedy. Manufactured by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY. price 60 cents at dealers.
In Atlanta, H. G. Hastings of the Southeastern Fair urges lower cotton costs and reduced acreage. He promotes self-sufficiency with on‑farm food production and a home garden as the quickest way to cut family living costs, claiming gardens can supply half the family’s needs in 1921.
Trains depart Vidalia on the Main Line: No 4 to Augusta at 1 45 PM, No 5 to Valdosta at 12 45 PM, No 7 to Madison at 6 15 AM. Millen Branch trains: No 8 to Millen at 7 05 AM, No 10 to Millen at 1 45 PM.
To Macon 8:00 a m 7 40 p m Trains arrive as follows From Macon 10 55 a m 7 20 p m
A brief notice offers a few bushels of Meade cotton seed for sale described as early long staple seed like Sea Island and priced similarly. Supply is small and will not last long.
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