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Newspaper
Vidalia Advance
Location
Vidalia, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1922
Page
2
Town promotes pride in Vidalia with a post cleanup push that improved many areas. Some residents did not cooperate. an ordinance against street littering is on the books and should be enforced to keep waste off the streets.
Ricks Brothers of Reynolds prove South Georgia hogs can rival western stock. They shipped 100 head to Moultrie for Swift Packing, earning about 20 dollars per animal. Hogs were purebred, finished on green corn, velvet beans, rye pasture, and a dry corn and tankage ration for 60 days before market, with water from a clear stream.
A Soperton News note urges Toombs County and South Georgia farmers to plant large strawberry patches to create a profitable, shipable spring crop. It cites a Soperton woman earning up to ten dollars daily from patch sales and argues for coordinated expansion around Vidalia and Lyons to harvest carload shipments next spring.
The state seeks $75,000,000 in bonds to build and improve Georgia highways. Backers argue bonds spur growth and compare with North Carolina Florida and California paving and investing in roads. Opponents warn of debt but proponents expect strong voter support to approve the plan.
New York judges impose long terms to deter crime with sentences of forty to sixty years at Sing Sing for a mid day hold up, seven years for pistol carrying, and eighteen year terms for attempted highway robbery. A Savannah judge sees strict prison terms for traffic violators restore respect for law. The piece argues judges and juries should use bitter medicine of long prison sentences to curb crime.
Petition filed in Toombs County Superior Court requests incorporation of Leader & Rosansky Company for twenty years with principal office in Vidalia. Article lists general merchandise business, vehicle trading, livestock, real estate, capital stock set at 75000 dollars, extendable to 500000. They seek corporate powers, amendments, dissolution by two thirds vote, renewal rights, and standard corporate privileges under Georgia law.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional cure for catarrhal deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube. Claims the product works through the blood and offers a $100 reward for any uncured case. Circulation free. price 75 cents. from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
The Primitive Church schedules regular monthly services on Friday night before second Sundays, Saturday at 2 30 p m, Sunday at 11 a m and 8 p m with Bible Study each Sabbath at 3 p m Pastor T E Sikes announced.
Waycross and Hebardsville friends announce J A L Glaze as a candidate under the white primary. He urges women to guard morality and citizens to oppose immoral politicians invading America. Toombs County voters allegedly backed stolen ballots two years ago. Speeches to be announced later.
Druggists refund if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure piles. Heenas aunes or Freeroding symptoms warned. After first application you may rest better and sleep. Price 6c.
Lyons community troupe presented a minstrel at the town school auditorium to a packed crowd. Proceeds benefited the Baptist church building fund. Attendees from Vidalia came, though rain in the afternoon kept some away.
Advertisement asserts worms cause pale unhealthy color and stomach issues and promotes GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC as a two to three week cure. It claims the tonic enriches blood improves digestion and strengthens the system and that nature will dispel worms with the child restored to health. Pleasant to take and priced at 60c per bottle.
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