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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1895
Page
4
A fragmented passage blends a playful line about cake and an ogre with garbled medical jargon. It then shifts to a garbled critique of “Diehstrom Failure” and references to pension and liver and kidney restoration using Hathaway’s Stomach and Liver Medicine, ending with vague health claims and miscaptioned terms.
A catalog style list describes an assortment of ornate items including a filigree silver jardiniere filled with ferns, pearl gray lizard skin stamp cases, a garnet rosary in a pearl box, an artistic log cabin accessory, moire belt with turquoise monogram, a banana shaped ribbon sachet with a doll head, four by three inch scarlet leather books, a red leather portrait calendar square, a bronze paper weight with a Mussulman, a blotter with a promissory note from B. Jolly & Co., a water colored lovers scene on rough linen, and an umbrella with patches.
A Ohio German candidate for sheriff reacted to a 4000 vote deficit by telling friends a tale at an uptown hotel. He planned to move out of town but learned there was nowhere to move as no place is left to go. The Washington Post recounts the anecdote.
A mother asks a five year old boy whether he prayed for the heathen. He admits praying for all except the neighbors next door, revealing a child’s moral lapse. The passage mirrors a moral tale about religious duty and neighborly restraint.
In a Washington Star vignette a woman sobs that her husband mistreats her and blocks her from making her own decisions, with a visitor asking if the abuse is ongoing and the plea that she wants her own way.
A Georgia wide summary notes farmers fortunes in Dooly and Rome mills expansion now worth 1 000 000 with 100 000 spindles. Watson-Black contest testimony in Augusta. Captain Harry Jackson dies in Atlanta. Atlanta Christmas festival and large tree planned for orphans. Conley sues for 46 000 in defamation. Railroads slash fares for Atlanta exposition with five day passes up to 350 miles away.
Keep er Turner defends the penitentiary, disputing Senate and legislative committee findings. He accuses report authors of no study of operations or law and argues political motives drive the condemnation of the lease system and penitentiary management.
A strict railroad official enforces fares after a Baltimore bound trip. A magnate who dodged paying is challenged by the conductor who later confronts him again when the official cannot produce his pass. The incident ends with a rebate ticket and speculation over the magnate’s discharge.
The South African Republic leader Paul Kruger is noted as the grand old man and has won three consecutive terms. Elections in 1883 1888 and 1894 reinforced his hold as he guided Boers amid battles with British influence. A national celebration marked his seventeenth birthday on October 10 at Pretoria.
Bradstreet's weekly trade report notes mild weather limited gains in retail demand while wholesale activity remains weak as merchants reduce year end stock for inventories. Bank clearings fall 9 percent from last week, with a 10 percent rise vs December 1804, and prices for staples ease though petroleum coffee and cotton advance.
Four men were killed and four more missing after a powder and dynamite blast at the Lafolette railroad works in Campbell County Tennessee. A misfired charge exploded as workers reentered the site after a fuse appeared to fail. Local crews search a rockstrewn area for the missing men.
Twenty five of Alabama’s largest mills formed the Alabama Lumber Company Limited at Montgomery and adopted the price list of the Arkansas Missouri and Mississippi Association. The move aims to raise lumber prices to a living level after the next year, as long leaf yellow pine stampings decline and waste for sale dwindles. The group plans to control output of all oils.
Banker James B. Pace of Richmond makes an assignment with wife Mrs Pace joining. Real and personal property including stocks and bonds are placed in trust for creditors by Judge George L. Christian and J. B. Montage. Liabilities about 900000. assets not listed but thought ample to satisfy debts.
Memphis grand jury returns thirty one indictments against A K Ward for forgery totaling seventy thousand dollars. Ward refuses to testify in a civil suit involving the alleged forged notes.
A collage of humorous exchanges from early 20th century papers. A husband and wife argue over a meeting about rescuing Chinese women from foot binding while a cook shortage strains life at home. Two vignettes touch on hard winter and immigration anxieties amid marital bickering and a playful couple’s quarrel.
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