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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1896
Page
4
A fragment describes using water to distinguish good eggs from bad by their resting position. It then touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for inactive kidneys and related diseases, claiming it conquers malaria bilious rheumatic ailments and dyspepsia. The text ends with garbled phrases about fashion accessories and jewelry.
In a Monday session the Senate adopted by 224 to 27 the conference report on Cuban resolutions. The action, cheered loudly, sends the resolutions to the president through normal channels for notification of Congress’s stance on Cuba.
A Havana dispatch reports 212 prisoners confined in two Morro Castle cells described as political detainees awaiting trial. The group includes two Americans and one British subject among a mix of ages and professions, held with minimal evidence of insurrection involvement. Nearby Cabana and other Cuban prisons hold thousands more unconfirmed detainees, while foreigners and journalists face restrictions though relatives may visit on Sundays and Wednesdays.
The No. 5 mill of the Lawrence manufacturing corporation in Lowell Massachusetts shut Friday as directors discontinue cotton cloth production due to inability to compete with the south. Other plant sections will close as stock finishes. About half of 5000 workers will lose jobs, many of them French Canadians. Some will relocate south. The mill had paid 10 percent dividends through 1894 and employs more workers than any other mill in the state amid a profit downturn and first taxation strike this year.
The Raleigh News and Observer publishes a forty page tobacco edition detailing NC history of cultivation and manufacture. It records last year leaf sales at 82,000,000 pounds at 8 cents per pound and 85,000,000 pounds manufactured into plug twist cigars and cigarettes valued at 7,500,000. Leaf sales total 6,600,000.
The past week shows active iron and coal demand with southern furnaces filling orders for months. New mills and factories arise in Branchville, Spartanburg, Orangeburg, Sweet Water, Birmingham, Morristown, Shelbyville, Athens, Lexington, and more, while rail transit strains persist.
Sheriff Gwynn was killed Thursday night when Delk, a notorious Georgia outlaw, fired from a window as the sheriff and a posse closed in at the Desk home near Concord. Fifty shots were exchanged. Delk escaped into nearby woods as bloodhounds and posses pursued him.
A Senoia Ga special reports Taylor Delk and his gang eluded a sheriff's posse from dawn until dark Sunday. Delk and his son Tom and Tom Langford were pursued as the posse closed within a mile at times. A raid on a nearby house failed to trap them. Delk reportedly passed through Sharpsburg around 4 pm.
A Sparta reader recalls a Georgia farm accident where a man, Geo Bradley, nearly broke his back trying to pull a pine stump. After years of pain, treatment, and a move to Massachusetts he tried Williams Pink Pills and claims complete relief, gaining weight and renewed health. The piece cites the Pills as a remedy for locomotor ataxia, sciatica, and various female and male ailments, with purchase details and prices.
Frederick A. Humphrey, reputed oldest American Mason, died at home in Shopierre Wisconsin on Tuesday at age 90. He had belonged to the Masonic fraternity for 74 years.
A dealer, 80, kept a few live creatures for sale and directed his shop boy to summon him when a customer asked for a living animal. A man sought a live monkey. the boy directed him to the master, who was summoned from the back shop according to Youth's Companion.
A jumble of quotes and ads from a historical page including a farmer lecturing on woodwork, a note on a patent medicine box order, legal oath about a Toledo firm, Hall's Catarrh Cure promotion, and testimonials for tonics and pain relief. The fragmentary items feature names like Mars L. C. Malcolm, J. T. Suvorrineg, and Dr. Kline, with dates circa 1886 and 1854.
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