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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1894
Page
1
London Telegraph reports a tribal practice where a chief orders summary death for misfortune. When trouble arises the tribe gathers in a circle and sorcerers perform rites to identify the 'poisoner' who is touched with a wand, deemed to be sentenced to death. The accused are said to have killed victims by slow poison.
A fragmentary mix describes a paper church in Bergen accommodating about 1000 people with octagonal exterior and circular interior, with paper mache decorations made waterproof by lime and milk. The passage then shifts to a jumble of midwestern ads for tonic medicines, tonics, and cures, including claims of health benefits and a dubious lottery-like offer, punctuated by stray moralizing lines and concluding with an unfinished phrase about an execution.
The Fifty Third Congress conducts tariff debates across Jan 23 to Jan 26 with sugar and coal schedules, Florida land grants, and Hawaiian annexation questions. Sugar moves to the free list while coal remains free. iron ore and machinery face similar votes. Senate weighs Hawaiian annexation stance and rail bridge bills amid broader fiscal bills and a Rockefeller-era tax dialogue.
Washington report notes 2.8 million dollars in gold withdrawn from the treasury since January 17 to fund bonds. Since January 1 the treasury has lost 12.44 million in gold. Gold reserve declines by 794 thousand to 67.66 million though net balance largely unchanged. Revenue deficiency for the month approaches 10 million.
Nine miners on the Tennessee Kentucky border were sentenced to three days in prison for contempt after refusing to vacate tenement houses during a wage dispute with a receiver-appointed company. The decision followed ejectment notices and deputy marshals' involvement, with a mild mitigation reducing the sentence to three days and a lecture.
Wheeler H Peckham of New York nominated for associate justice as the Wilson tariff bill advances through the house. The judiciary committee backs Bailey’s bond authority while debates on bonds, bagging duties and a popular issue scheme unfold. Hawaiian investigation testimony updates, tobacco interests lobby, and large pension and District of Columbia appropriation bills move forward with notable cuts and balance.
J T Essary East Tennessee internal revenue collector served notice to Chattanooga Chinamen to register under the Geary exclusion act. Each man must be photographed with a sworn affidavit of business and residence and sended to Washington before eligibility to register. Registration ends May 4. Kaiser William Honored. Emperor William’s thirty-fifth birthday was celebrated across Germany with elaborate displays and strong public regard.
A Meadvill e Pennsylvania man tells of three brothers who sold a sterile farm for 10000 cash plus 10 percent of a future yield. The venture failed as wells were poor, money trapped in banks, and the brothers vanished Westward to avoid possible prosecutions. An uncle later recovered one brother in a Colorado poorhouse. another died. The money passed to relatives after the pauper brother’s wealth lasted a year.
A humorous exchange from a period column hints a suitor praising a tender hearted girl while playful misstatements about state names and pay origin surface. The quip, cited from Street & Smith's Good News, aligns with light romance humor in early 20th century newspapers.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure laxative with pleasant taste, cleansing the system and aiding kidneys, liver, and bowels without weakening them. It claims universal satisfaction, medical approval, and lists 50¢ and $1 bottles sold by druggists, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
A St Louis Globe-Democrat writer muses on peculiar names seen in business signs nationwide. Examples include Gander in grain, Gay undertaker in Chattanooga, Graves cemetery keeper in Mobile, Bright & Early lawyers in South Pittsburg, and Robb & Steele former firm in Marion, among many others from Illinois to Massachusetts.
A brief fragment from the New York Weekly shows a book agent touting a bound edition titled Poems of all Ages. An elderly man, claiming blindness, responds with thanks, indicating reluctance or inability to view the volume.
An 1892 note warns southern farmers to avoid widespread tobacco culture unless a superior variety yields high prices. It cites long-time tobacco growers in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Missouri as often remaining poor or land-poor. Suggests planting a small, high-value acreage while others grow common varieties. The Times-Democrat reports tobacco experiments at North Louisiana Experiment Station failed due to a bad season.
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