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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1895
Page
4
An essay argues nerves suffer when blood is impure and that Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies and enriches blood to restore strength. It cites a testimonial from Mrs. Brapoor of Williamsport praising relief from heart trouble and improved health after taking the medicine.
The Central Railroad of Georgia advertises through trains with Pullman sleep cars to Atlanta and Waycross for the Georgia Baptist Convention in Macon. It promotes through-ticketing from Atlanta with daily departures and minimal changes, urging tickets read over the Central. Also notes medical claims and various ads on deafness, patent medicines, and June encampments, plus moon and science trivia items.
Georgia readers learn of the Atlanta and Florida railroad sale scheduled for Monday April 29 after a court postponement on petition of stockholders. A fire at the Toccoa Furniture and Lumber plant destroyed buildings with a $40,000 loss. Other items cover land trades for cemetery lots, Georgia Central railroad concerns, Alabama Cotton States expo planning, marble production in Georgia, and state banking interest arrangements with two depositories yielding significant annual revenue.
Reports from across the southern states show better weather lifting business conditions with lumber recovery and rising inquiries for home and foreign shipments. New cotton mills and enlargements emerge in multiple towns including Greenville Hickory Grove Walterboro Mocksville Huntsville Piedmont Shamrock Port cities and Dalton Iron and steel demand grows with a busy spring outlook. New industries noted include a 3000000 development company in Tennessee a 100000 telephone line in Kentucky a 50000 hat factory in West Virginia and multiple mills and factories planned across Texas Virginia North Carolina Georgia and other states.
William Wilson Finley was elected commissioner at a Atlanta meeting of railroad men formalizing the Southern States Passenger Association. The new group will begin operations April 15, replacing the old Southern Passenger Association. Finley to lead the revived body as officers and an auditing committee were also chosen.
In Fulton county superior court at Atlanta Judge J H W Timpkin heard Seaboard Air-Line’s forceful opening by Mr Jel J Spalding and Western and Atlantic’s clear rebuttal defending prorating privileges. Judge Ed Baxter then spoke for Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis. Hearing paused to Monday as both sides rested and Judge Lumpkin prepares to review extensive documentary evidence and arguments.
A Nashville petition circulates for a mass meeting at the tabernacle on Tuesday April 2 1895. Local Democrats urge representatives to end a disputed governor race and petition for Mr Evans to take office. The call frames the issue as a state grievance affecting both parties.
A Chicago Record excerpt recounts a Methodist preacher Thrall guiding itinerants to pray with a farmer, who jokingly charged 20 cents for prayers after a 25 cent road toll. It notes aging marriage patterns and contrasts rural weddings with urban ages, reflecting on family lines and grandparent timelines.
A Bavarian breach of promise case features a dramatic moment when the plaintiff, described as a buxom village maiden, brings in a tree trunk as evidence. Four lumbermen escorted the trunk into court while initials burned into the bark by a flaming heart allegedly tied the defendant to the charge, leading to a favorable outcome for the accuser.
In Flat Rock near Somerset Kentucky a 16 year old girl afflicted with St Vitus dance after nervous weakness trembled toward asylum. Mothers tale credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring health. Reports cite widespread validation by newspapers and druggists globally.
An Albany Journal piece argues that children possess reason and rights equal to adults and that even a New York dramatist’s household, described as a democracy, gives the youngest child a voice. It questions indulgence and lax parenting, proposing disciplined, humane guidance to foster inner virtue and domestic harmony.
A distressed tenant explains he has lived on the border of a house for about ten years. He laments inability to leave, saying there is no other place to go and that the landlady is his wife, yielding a grim, dejected scene.
In Chicago Tribune style prose a laboratory linked to Bishop Pallow’s home brew runs overtime to meet demand. The drink, described as yard tea by a connoisseur, appears to be a mix of roots herbs barks and goma. Grandmothers of the era used such brews to cleanse after boils and spring fever, while Bishop Tallows and the Homeealoon push heavy local trade.
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