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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1895
Page
4
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal features a curious dialogue where a young man admits no interest in theosophy while a speaker extols its charm. She imagines sending an astral self to entertain as the real self rests, the clock ticking loudly as night grows late.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes from various papers. snippets include romance lines, a child mishearing adults, a widow’s inscription joke, a horseman’s odd natural history fact about left hind leg starts, and brief quips about college news and cigars.
An old time figure lauds a tonic as a method to counter infirmities of aging and maintain health. The advertisement promotes Hostetter's Bitters as a great tonic to combat rheumatiam lumbage dyspepsia neuralgia and torpidity of the liver, urging methodical use for vigor in old age.
The Senate opened with credentials for Michigan's Mr McMillin and Stockbridge's succession presented. Debates on bounty payments to Missouri militia, a nonpartisan currency commission, and a $500000 cable route survey for Hawaii define a day of fierce exchange.
Secretary Carlisle’s answer to Mr. Dingley’s resolution outlines the Paris Behring Sea regulations as a failure. Dingley notes 25,000 islanders resettled, 16,000 unaccounted, Canadian pelagic sealers taking 60,000 mostly females, predicting Alaska seal herd extinction within three years and severe economic costs.
A six member Montgomery committee, appointed to draft a new tax assessment system, will report when the legislature reconvenes. The plan shifts tax collection to property, uses appraisers, adjusts how valuations are made, moves the tax year to October 1, and aims to raise about $200,000 in revenue over three to four years.
A cyclone struck eastern Abbeville Alm damaging homes and utilities. Mr Spien’s house was destroyed, one child dead and another seriously injured. At Port Ledger D Miller killed as residence demolished. Elsewhere a violent Louisiana storm uprooted trees and damaged structures. Severe snow storms across the west and northwest bring 4 to 9 inches, heavy winds, and widespread travel disruption.
Dr. Arthur Duestrow, a millionaire at Union Missouri, stands trial for killing his wife and four year old son. The defense pleads insanity as the confession is admitted. Duestrow, about 28, is the son of an old state family. the estate stems from mining stock. The widow Mrs. Duestrow left a fortune to her children, now doubled by her death.
A dispatch from Shanghai to Central News says Japanese advance on Weihaiwei triggers panic in Tien-Tsin and Peking. Chinese peace envoys ordered to speed negotiations. Japanese cruisers monitor Wei-Hai-Wei, siege may delay a week. trains progress slowly amid snowbound roads.
The petition of John G. Moore seeks mandamus against Commissioner Miller to halt income tax collection. Judge Hagner overruled the action in the District of Columbia equity court and the case will be appealed to the United States Supreme Court to test the tax law's constitutionality.
The article reviews Senate struggles over the Nicaragua cane bill and the bankruptcy measure, with Republicans aiming to stall final action. It notes a potential pooling bill cue, pending arbitration talks in the House, and remarks on gold reserves and bond proposals including Senator Jones’s plan to issue $500 million in 8 percent bonds redeemable in gold or notes. It also covers revenue receipts rising to $81.8 million for six months ending December 31, 1894, and proposed changes affecting national banks and currency through the Jones bill.
In a Wednesday joint session Minnesota lawmakers elected Governor Knute Nelson to succeed Senator W. D. Washburn. Final tally showed Nelson 102 votes, Washburn 38, Donnelly 13, Lind 1, Mitchell 4, with other scattered votes. Nelson thanked the chamber as the session adjourned. Also, Missouri lawmakers consider a bill to impose the death penalty for train robbery.
The article lists tropical trees with surprising uses: bread trees making edible slices, weeping trees distilling water, wine trees supplying drink, sugar sap from Sicilian ash, wax from the Andes, butter and milk trees in Africa, soap trees in China, and a dangerous man eating plant rivaling Venus flytrap.
A string of short items appear, including a witty anecdote about Lord Aberdeen on a midnight train, a note on fifty three foreigners applying for neutralization in Philadelphia with many rejected, an advertisement offering a $100 reward for curing catarrh by Hall's Catarrh Cure, and travel notices for extra sleeping cars on the Atlanta to New Orleans line during Mardi Gras. Other items include testimonials for Hall's Catarrh Cure and various local notices about medicines and travel accommodations.
Practical hints on preventing cake collapse when doors slam the oven and on cooling macaroni to avoid pastiness. Tips cover omelet stability, coffee flavoring, preserving ice with newspaper, potato texture, sponge cake technique, and crisp bacon browning methods.
A judge notes a boastful claim by a woman who says she is college educated from Boston but doubts it. He asks if she has read popular works such as The Ear's Atonement and A Terrible Secret, and she admits she has read none of them, casting doubt on her background.
Do not give children money indiscriminately for sweets. A penny or nickel each time invites overeating, poor digestion, and illness. The habit fosters extravagant ideas and may lead to stealing as a natural outcome of parental indulgence, warns Chicago Record.
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