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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1895
Page
4
A jumble of home remedies and promotional blurbs offers tips on household tasks and cautions about preserved foods. It promotes products like Hoefotter’s Stomid Mittters and Syrup of Figs, with testimonials and marketing claims from various vendors and locations.
Georgia reports note shipments of fifty carloads of peaches daily and a Valdosta firm losing 119 dollars. Irwin county colonists rush to new homes while land sales reach 74 thousand dollars. A fire at Kromer destroys a lumber yard with insurance partial. railroad hopes and court actions shape regional news.
Dr Thomas Edgar Rogers of Waco Georgia aged thirty four was arrested in Atlanta by government secret service agent W W Forsyth on counterfeiting charges. He waived preliminary examination and was remanded when unable to post 3000 bond. A complete counterfeiting outfit including molds metal and plating battery was captured. Rogers is well known in the state and faces trial.
Three large phosphate manufacturers in the state consolidate under Southern Fertilizer Company based in Atlanta. On September 1 the combined plants will be controlled by the Atlanta firm with a paid in capital of 850000 dollars. The move pools the experience of three veteran fertilizer men and creates a major regional operation.
From Honolulu dated July 25 native Hawaiian groups urge the legislature to pass a joint resolution instructing President Dole to renew annexation negotiations with the United States. A resolution is expected to be introduced before adjournment as pressure mounts. Separately in North Carolina J W Tafts of Boston plans to settle 150 workers on 5000 acres near Southern Pines and seeks 200 carpenters to build housing for health seekers.
A Philadelphia Press column mocks fashion flaws in women and cites a critic who cautions about dress missteps. It recalls a scene of a rider whose shirt sleeves and cantering horse amuse onlookers, then contrasts with a judge’s remark that women are never obstinate, only principled.
A mob of about 800 Italians in Spring Valley, Illinois, attacked the local African American community after a white man was shot. Dozens were injured, some severely, as victims were beaten, shot, and driven from the area. Sheriff Clerk arrived too late to prevent the violence.
A devastating flood struck Beroedo New Mexico on a Wednesday. Sixteen people are confirmed dead as a cloudburst unleashed huge waves of bricks mud and debris through the streets. Fifty buildings were washed away and about one hundred damaged along with gardens and vineyards wrecked, hitting poorer residents hardest. Separately Louisville and Nashville Railroad plans to call in 10 40 six percent bonds totaling four to five million dollars and cancel Mobile and Montgomery bonds.
Atlanta markets list extensive prices for flour corn meal cotton seeds eggs butter and vegetables. It records grocery items from sugar to coffee, meats to poultry, produce like potatoes onions cabbage sweet potatoes and onions, with price ranges and quality notes for several regional brands and grades. Local cotton market closes with middling price reported.
A Reading woman bled to death after sixteen teeth were extracted. Muskegon County Michigan townships have over 1,000 acres of peppermint. Holbein’s Barber-Surgeon portrait in London offered at 76000 dollars. Mastodon jaw bone and a ten-pound tooth found in Cyrus Township Missouri. Connecticut ad promotes a church as cool and warm with good seats for timely arrivals. Several named residents in Ohio died within 24 hours. A Paducah man reports a tree bearing fruit between peach and plum. Tarbox minister in Missouri harvested 151 quarts of strawberries, potential 150 quarts yield 1500 dollars at 10 cents each. An unsafe woman brought to Seattle asylum. solitude of ranch life blamed. Krupp 189-ton gun range fifteen miles. shot weighs 2600 pounds. powder 701 pounds. round costs 1590 dollars. Early pin production once restricted to two January days. French engineer plans Napoleon house replica for 1900 exhibit. Elizabethan brownstone jewel sold in London and other antique pieces with prices. A literary fragment ends with a note: Shadow of the Future and a father’s blessing to his son.
A Laurinburg resident George Russell testifies to recovery from severe rheumatism after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for Palo Poopla. He claims weight gain from 121 to 160 pounds and says he can run and jump like a six year old. The statement was sworn before a Justice of the Peace in Richmond County on April 14, 1895.
The article explains that under optimal conditions electricity travels 180000 miles per second. It imagines a 25000 mile equatorial loop with seven windings to show a signal would traverse in one second. It also notes J Cooley of Howellsville new airship model powered by an electric propeller and simple steering.
A Dutch invention features a wooden Doctor-Cure-AN figure with labeled compartments for ailments. Drop a coin, align your pain with a location on the figure, and a pill or powder for that ailment dispenses.
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