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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1895
Page
4
A historical newspaper fragment argues for newspapers in schools, cites benefits for language and civics, and discusses public health ads for kidney disease, digestion, and tonics. It references medical tonics, patent medicines, and charitable cures, with notices from multiple brands and doctors.
A midsummer fair notes county sums for Berrien Worth Irwin and Colquitt counties. Plans unfold for Clarke county exhibit at the expo and railroads with fruit growers seek mutual terms. Waco doctor denies counterfeiting charges and the Albany rifle range contest draws soldiers. Athens church records show only four pastors in 75 years amid strong white membership. Professors Hunnicutt and White lead farmers institute tour across Georgia to organize new institutes for growing, diversifying crops and sharing farming methods.
State Agricultural association announces a large fall convention in Brunswick from August 13 to 15. Ex Governor Northen and other state leaders will speak on Immigration, education, teacher-farmer issues, and relations between producers and carriers. The program includes officer elections and detailed sessions on fertilizers seeds and farm improvements with many discussions and addresses by prominent Georgians.
Governor Atkinson revokes commission of Captain T B Gary, ending his ties to the Georgia penitentiary. The hearing, tied to the death of Porter Stocks at Minneola camp, concluded in Atlanta last Monday, with the governor ruling against the man in charge at the time of Stocks’s death. The formal order follows.
Eliza R Parker writes on a pickled tomato and onion relish in the July Ladies Tome Journal. A casual anecdote from Lugalo Courier reports a doctor and peddler peanuts exchange with a wry remark about heaven. The Cox family now runs Southern Female College in Manchester near Atlanta, marking fifty years in charge and expanded utilities and advantages.
The ruling revokes the whipping commission of T B Gary for violations at Mineola No 2 penitentiary. A convicts abuse by Porter Stocks prompted inquiry. Gov Arnieson declares Gary discharged from state service. Governor Atkinson, ill, left for Newnan after testifying and will not return until fully recovered.
Dun and Co reports trade remains unusually active for midsummer with no signs of a broad reaction. Buyer power rises as coal miners and employers settle in western Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana boosting wages for about 100000 workers. Prices firm across iron steel wool and leather, with record steel output at Carnegie Homestead and ongoing strength in cotton goods and boots and shoes. Factory failures total 11,758,010 in July with most in manufacturing and trading sectors. weekly failures US 96? paralleled by earlier year figures.
Justice Cole of the district supreme court refused to issue the writ sought by W H Whatley and Harry Taylor of New York against Secretary Carlisle and Treasury Morgan. The government owed $17 000 for contract work at Willet's Point New York. Carlisle ordered payment on a set date in the presence of alleged creditors, the contractors objected and urged payment another way but the secretary stood firm.
A collection of remarks on the newspaper profession by T DeWitt Talmage contrasts editors with the slums and follies they witness daily. The piece notes skepticism among journalists and the lure to doubt in God, man, and woman. It also reports varied short items: two Ethiopian brands found in a saw log in Minnesota, bicyclists in Russian cities needing skill, record corn acreage in Kansas, Siamese twin eggs laid by a Union Springs hen, and fireclay deposits found in Pueblo county Colorado, aiding ore smelting and iron making.
An old rural church notice announces preaching on Sunday and Monday about salvation and damnation. The wording includes archaic phrases and a cryptic signature, mentioning a rope walker temperance reference and unclear attribution.
A dubious home remedy advertisement claims McElree's Wine of Cardin eases painful menses without doctor exams. It includes testimonials from Mrs. W. L. Mitchell Pratt Mines and JW Pollard Pleasant Ridge, and promotes a catarrh cure with endorsements and wholesale druggists.
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